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Conferences

Influence of Angle Orientation on Firebrand Production from the Combustion of Materials Exposed to Applied Wind Fields

November 20, 2019

Author(s)

Samuel L. Manzello, Sayaka Suzuki

A shared feature in the rapid spread of large outdoor fires are the production or generation of new, far smaller combustible fragments from the original fire...

Investigating coupled effect of radiative heat flux and firebrand showers on ignition of fuel beds

November 20, 2019

Author(s)

Samuel L. Manzello, Sayaka Suzuki

Fire spread occurs via radiation, flame contact, and firebrands. While firebrand showers are known to be a cause of spot fires which ignite fuels far from the...

Physics-based Simulation of Agile Robotic Systems

November 14, 2019

Author(s)

Pavlo Piliptchak, Murat Aksu, Frederick M. Proctor, John L. Michaloski

Development and testing of industrial robot environments is hampered by the limited availability of hardware resources. Simulations provide a more accessible...

Estimating Interzonal Leakage in a Net-Zero Energy House

November 11, 2019

Author(s)

Lisa C. Ng, Lindsey Kinser, Steven J. Emmerich, Andrew K. Persily

The Net Zero Energy Residential Test Facility (NZERTF) was constructed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to support the development...

DATA REGISTRATION FOR IN-SITU MONITORING OF LASER POWDER BED FUSION PROCESSES

November 11, 2019

Author(s)

Shaw C. Feng, Yan Lu, Albert W. Jones

Increasingly, a wide range of in-situ sensors are being instrumented on additive manufacturing (AM) machines. Researchers and manufacturers use these sensors to...

Using Statistical Methods and Co-Simulation to Evaluate ADS-Equipped Vehicle Trustworthiness

November 10, 2019

Author(s)

Khalid Halba, Edward Griffor, Thomas Roth, Patrick Kamongi

With the increasing interest in studying Automated Driving System (ADS)-equipped vehicles through simulation, there is a growing need for comprehensive and...

Reducing Effects of LO Cable Movement in Antenna and Long Distance VNA Measurements

November 7, 2019

Author(s)

David R. Novotny

We evaluate a method for estimating and removing local oscillator cable drift in transmission measurements using a network analyzer. The geometric mean of the...

Throughput Analysis between Unicast and MBSFN from Link Level to System Level

November 7, 2019

Author(s)

Chunmei Liu, Chen Shen, Jack Chuang, Richard A. Rouil, Hyeong-Ah Choi

Public safety incidents typically involve significant amount of group traffic. This paper initializes our study in exploring the potential spectrum savings and...

A SDN-based Network Layer for Edge Computing

November 7, 2019

Author(s)

An Wang, Zili Zha, Yang Guo, Songqing Chen

The advanced big data analytical technologies and ever-expanding Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices and applications drive the new computing paradigm, Edge...

Options for Low-GWP Refrigerants

November 6, 2019

Author(s)

Mark O. McLinden, Andrei F. Kazakov, J S. Brown, Riccardo Brignoli, Ian H. Bell, Piotr A. Domanski

We summarize a systematic examination of possible low-GWP (global warming potential) replacements for the HFC (hydrofluorocarbon) refrigerants currently used in...

Active Learning Yields Better Training Data for Scientific Named Entity Recognition

November 1, 2019

Author(s)

Roselyne B. Tchoua, Aswathy Ajith, Zhi Hong, Logan T. Ward, Kyle Chard, Debra Audus, Shrayesh N. Patel, Juan J. de Pablo

Despite significant progress in natural language processing, machine learning models require substantial expert-annotated training data to perform well in tasks...

Best in Class: Leveraging Robot Performance Standards in Academic Competitions to Encourage Development and Dissemination

October 31, 2019

Author(s)

Raymond Sheh, Adam S. Jacoff

Standard test methods and academic competitions share much in common. We detail how we use standard test methods to promote education, research, development and...

A timing impairment module for electrical synchrometrology.

October 31, 2019

Author(s)

Dhananjay Anand, Marc A. Weiss, Kishan Shenoi

Accurate time is frequently cited as an enabling requirement for precisely coordinated control systems used in the electrical power system. Methods and...

Live quantification of cell viability via neutral red uptake using lens-free imaging

October 27, 2019

Author(s)

Brian J. Nablo, Jungjoon Ahn, Kiran Bhadriraju, Jong M. Lee, Darwin Reyes-Hernandez

We present the quantification of cell viability during neutral red (NR) uptake with a compact lens-free system utilizing two light sources. Conventionally, the...

Label-free surface acoustic wave-based embedded flow sensor

October 27, 2019

Author(s)

Aurore F. Quelennec, Jason J. Gorman, Darwin Reyes-Hernandez

This paper presents a calibration/label-free flow sensor embedded in a microfluidic system. This sensor is based on surface acoustic waves, where the acoustic...

40th AIVC - 8th TightVent & 6th venticool Conference, 2019 Residential Application of an Indoor Carbon Dioxide Metric

October 24, 2019

Author(s)

Andrew K. Persily, Brian J. Polidoro

Indoor carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations have been used for decades to evaluate indoor air quality (IAQ) and ventilation. However, many of these applications...

40th AIVC - 8th Tight Vent & 6th Venticool Conference, 2019 Techniques to Estimate Commercial Building Infiltration Rates

October 24, 2019

Author(s)

Andrew K. Persily

Security Automation for Cloud-Based IoT Platforms

October 21, 2019

Author(s)

Robert B. Bohn, Mheni Merzouki, Charif Mahmoudi, Cihan Tunc

Internet of Things (IoT) is reshaping the way Cloud Service Providers (CSP) collect data from sensors. With billions of devices deployed around the world, CSP...

Analysis of potential energy savings from air sealing retrofits of commercial buildings

October 17, 2019

Author(s)

Steven Emmerich, Lisa Ng

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has previously demonstrated that, despite assumptions to the contrary, typical modern commercial...

Using co-simulation between EnergyPlus and CONTAM to develop IAQ and energy-centric demand-controlled ventilation systems

October 16, 2019

Author(s)

Maria Alonso, William Stuart Dols, Hans M. Mathisen

Buildings account for approximately 40 % of energy use in the European Union. In light of the Energy performance of buildings directive (EPBD), efforts are...

Clustering and Representation of Time-Varying Industrial Wireless Channel Measurements

October 14, 2019

Author(s)

Mohamed Hany, Rick Candell, Yongkang Liu

The wireless devices in cyber-physical systems (CPS) play a primary role in transporting the information flows within such systems. Deploying wireless systems...

Optical Frequency Comb Generation Utilizing Mach-Zehnder Modulator and Multi-Laser Sources

October 8, 2019

Author(s)

Abdella Battou, Driss El Idrissi

Optical Frequency Comb Generation Utilizing Mach-Zehnder Modulator and Multi-Laser Sources

A Simulation Platform to Study the Human Body Communication Channel

October 7, 2019

Author(s)

Kamran Sayrafian, Katjana Krhac, Gregory Noetscher, Dina Simunic

Human Body Communication (HBC) is an attractive low complexity technology with promising applications in wearable biomedical sensors. In this paper, a simple...

On Wackers Essential Equation in the Extrapolation Measurement Technique

October 6, 2019

Author(s)

Alexey J. Yuffa

The generalized three-antenna method is a standard method for measuring on-axis gain and polarization of an antenna without a priori knowledge. The cornerstone...

Light-Shift Suppression with Novel Variants of Adaptive Ramsey Spectroscopy

October 3, 2019

Author(s)

Moshe Shuker, Juniper Pollock, John Kitching, Elizabeth Donley, Rodolphe Boudot, V. I. Yudin, A. V. Taichenachev

We present a brief review of the rapidly growing field of autobalanced Ramsey spectroscopy followed by a detailed discussion and review of two novel techniques...

Multipath Mitigation from FM-AM Correlation

October 3, 2019

Author(s)

Archita Hati, Craig W. Nelson

Multipath is one of the limiting factors for an accurate outdoor and indoor localization. We proposed an approach that uses a multipath mitigation derived from...

Detailed Chemical-Kinetic Modeling of Thermal-Agent Diluted Methane and Propane Flames Near Extinguishment

October 3, 2019

Author(s)

William M. Pitts, Jiann C. Yang, Rodney A. Bryant, L G. Blevins

The use of halons for fire fighting is being phased out due to their deleterious effects on stratospheric ozone. This paper describes the findings of part of a...

Design of an intelligent PYTHON code to run coupled and license-free finite-element and statistical analysis software for calibration of near-field scanning microwave microscopes

October 2, 2019

Author(s)

Jeffrey T. Fong, N. Alan Heckert, James Filliben, Pedro V. Marcal, Samuel Berweger, Thomas Mitchell (Mitch) Wallis, Pavel Kabos

To calibrate near-field scanning microwave microscopes (NSMM) for defect detection and characterization in semiconductors, it is common to develop a parametric...

Feasibility Study of Compton Imaging for PGAA

October 1, 2019

Author(s)

Heather H. Chen-Mayer, Steven Brown, Hao Yang

We are developing a one-sided tomographic method for imaging prompt gamma rays, without moving the source, sample, or detector, in a standard prompt gamma...

The Role of Carbon Dioxide in Ventilation and IAQ Evaluation: 40 years of AIVC

October 1, 2019

Author(s)

Andrew K. Persily, William S. Dols, Steven J. Emmerich, Lisa C. Ng

The purpose of this summary is to review Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre activities, as reflected in its publications, related to indoor carbon dioxide...

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