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Walter J. Rossiter Jr, Walter E. Byrd, Willard E. Roberts, Dawn M. Bailey
The U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research (CERL) has been investigating the development of a test methodology for evaluating the service life of roofing...
William M. Pitts, Nelson P. Bryner, Erik L. Johnsson
The findings of an extensive series of over 140 natural gas fires in a 2/5ths-scale model of a standard room have been previously reported. The current work...
Y. R. Sivathanu, Anthony Hamins, Robert Hagwood, Takashi Kashiwagi
Deconvolution of local properties from line-of-sight measurements is important in a wide variety of applications such as x-ray tomography, nuclear magnetic...
Research is being conducted to describe the characteristics of an improved fire detector which promptly reacts to smoke while discriminating between smoke and...
In most engineering design processes, there are three major phases of design: functional, conceptual, and detailed design (Gui94). However, most current...
Coordinate measuring systems (CMSs) determine dimensional (length) characteristics of mechanical parts by analyzing 3-dimensional point data acquired on part...
The objective of this study was to evaluate the ability of sprinkler activation models to predict activation time. Large scale compartment fire tests were used...
The Real-time Control System (RCS) architecture developed at NIST and elsewhere over the past two decades [1] defines a canonical form for a nested intelligent...
Ken L. Stricklett, J. M. Kassoff, James K. Olthoff, Richard J. Van Brunt
Methods are described, which are based on the use of a commercial mass spectrometer, for determination of ionization and fragment ion appearance potentials by...
This paper addresses the development and implementation of real-time reactive scheduling and control decision-making in hierarchical manufacturing environments...
A computer model and methodology for modeling optical mixing errors in heterodyne interferometers is presented. The model is based on the Jones calculus and...
Nelson N. Hsu, Gerald V. Blessing, Steven E. Fick, D Xiang
The use of a line-focus transducer operating in pulse-echo mode to probe a liquid/solid interface is a new technique which has many engineering applications. To...