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Conferences

Security Awareness in Action: A Case Study

July 29, 2019

Author(s)

Julie M. Haney, Wayne Lutters

Pulse-Driven High-Tc Josephson Junctions for Quantum Voltage Devices

July 28, 2019

Author(s)

Adam C. Weis, Nathan E. Flowers-Jacobs, E Y. Choi, H Li, J C. LeFebvre, Shane Cybart, Stuart Berkowitz, Horst Rogalla, Samuel P. Benz

Josephson junction arrays are the basis for quantum-accurate dc and ac voltage standards, including artificial voltage-noise references used in noise...

DESIGN OF AN INTELLIGENT PYTHON CODE FOR VALIDATING CRACK GROWTH EXPONENT BY MONITORING A CRACK OF ZIG-ZAG SHAPE IN A CRACKED PIPE

July 27, 2019

Author(s)

Jeffrey T. Fong, Pedro V. Marcal, Robert B. Rainsberger, Nathanael A. Heckert, James J. Filliben

When a small crack is detected in a pressure vessel or piping, we can estimate the fatigue life of the vessel or piping by applying the classical law of...

Towards Operational Use of Unit Manufacturing Process Models

July 25, 2019

Author(s)

Amogh Kulkarni, William Z. Bernstein, David Lechevalier, Daniel Balasubramanian, Gabor Karsai, Peter O. Denno

Unit Manufacturing Processes (UMP) are models that capture succinct definitions of individual manufacturing steps in a manufacturing system. They are used to...

ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING PROCESSES FOR INFRASTRUCTURE CONSTRUCTION: A REVIEW

July 25, 2019

Author(s)

Abhinav Bhardwaj, Scott Jones, Negar Kalantar, Zhijian Pei, John Vickers, Pablo Zavattieri, Timothy Wangler, Na Zou

Improving MC/DC and Fault Detection Strength Using Combinatorial Testing

July 25, 2019

Author(s)

D. Richard Kuhn, Raghu N. Kacker

Software, in many different fields and tasks, has played a critical role and even replaced humans to improve efficiency and safety. However, catastrophic...

Towards Formula Concept Discovery and Recognition

July 25, 2019

Author(s)

Howard S. Cohl, Philipp Scharpf, Moritz Schubotz, Bela Gipp

Citation-based Information Retrieval (IR) methods for scientific documents have proven to be effective in academic disciplines that use many references. In...

WHERE DO WE START? GUIDANCE FOR TECHNOLOGY IMPLEMENTATION IN MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT FOR MANUFACTURING

July 23, 2019

Author(s)

Michael P. Brundage, Thurston B. Sexton, Melinda Hodkiewicz, Katherine C. Morris, Jorge Arinez, Farhad Ameri, Jun Ni, Guoxian Xiao

Recent efforts in Smart Manufacturing (SM) have proven quite effective at elucidating system behavior using sensing systems, communications and computational...

PROBABILITY OF DETECTION OF X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY OF ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING DEFECTS

July 19, 2019

Author(s)

Felix H. Kim, Adam L. Pintar, Jason C. Fox, Jared B. Tarr, M A. Donmez, Anne-Fran?oise Obaton

A methodology to determine probability of detection (POD) of X-ray Computed Tomography (XCT) was developed using Additive Manufacturing defects. A signal...

Analysis of Automatic through Autonomous – Unmanned Ground Vehicles (A-UGVs) Towards Performance Standards

July 17, 2019

Author(s)

Soocheol Yoon, Roger V. Bostelman

Automatic through Autonomous - Unmanned Ground Vehicles (A-UGVs), as termed by ASTM F45 for driverless industrial vehicles, have much potential for use in...

Quantifying Macroeconomic Resilience Dividends in Cedar Rapids

July 17, 2019

Author(s)

Juan F. Fung, Jennifer F. Helgeson, Cheyney M. O'Fallon, David H. Webb, Harvey Cutler

Cedar Rapids, Iowa offers a unique case study in planning for increased resilience. In 2008, Cedar Rapids experienced severe flooding. Rather than simply...

Facilitating Large-Scale Data Collection by Synthesizing Remote Sensing, GIS, and Machine Learning

July 14, 2019

Author(s)

Patrick S. Crawford, Judith Mitrani-Reiser, Andrew Graettinger

Post-disaster studies are critical for measuring impact to communities, from physical infrastructure performance and vulnerabilities, to interdependencies with...

Peak Area Detection Network for Directly Learning Phase Regions from Raw X-ray Diffraction Patterns

July 14, 2019

Author(s)

Dipendra Jha, Aaron Gilad Kusne, Ankit Agrawal, Alok Choudhary, Reda Al-Bahrani, Nam Nguyen, Wei-keng Liao

X-ray diffraction (XRD) is a well-known technique used by scientists and engineers to determine the atomic-scale structures to understand the composition...

Constant-Round Group Key Exchange from the Ring-LWE Assumption

July 14, 2019

Author(s)

Daniel C. Apon, Dana Dachman-Soled, Huijing Gong, Jonathan Katz

Group key-exchange protocols allow a set of N parties to agree on a shared, secret key by communicating over a public network. A number of solutions to this...

A Classification Scheme for Wireless Channel Models Across the Development Life Cycle

July 12, 2019

Author(s)

David Michelson, Camillo Gentile, Nada T. Golmie, Jeanne Quimby, Kate Remley, Ken Gracie, Yvo de Jong

Wireless channel models play a critical role at all stages of the product life cycle, from standards development to network deployment. However, the distinctive...

From the Beginnings of Artificial Cold to Climate-Friendly Fluids; Evolution of Refrigerants Application

July 11, 2019

Author(s)

Piotr A. Domanski

The presentation will discuss the application of refrigerants starting from the beginnings of ‘artificial cold' in the era of industrial revolution to the...

RTL-PSC: Automated Power Side-Channel Leakage Assessment at Register-Transfer Level

July 11, 2019

Author(s)

Miao (Tony) He, Jungmin Park, Adib Nahiyan, Apostol Vassilev, Yier Jin, Mark Tehranipoor

Power side-channel attacks (SCAs) have become a major concern to the security community due to their non- invasive feature, low-cost, and effectiveness in...

Information Exposure (IEX): A New Class in the Bugs Framework (BF)

July 9, 2019

Author(s)

Irena Bojanova, Yaacov Yesha, Paul E. Black, Yan Wu

Exposure of sensitive information can be harmful on its own and in addition could enable further attacks. A rigorous and unambiguous definition of information...

Machine Learning in a Quality Managed RF Measurement Workflow

July 6, 2019

Author(s)

Aric Sanders, John Bass, Arpita Bhutani, Mary A. Ho, Jim Booth

Advances in artificial intelligence, or more specifically machine learning, have made it possible for computers to recognize patterns as well or better than...

THE MEASURED HEAT RELEASE RATES OF TRANSIENT FUEL ITEMS FOUND IN NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS

July 1, 2019

Author(s)

Jason E. Floyd, Kevin B. McGrattan, Matthew Bundy

Fire is one of the significant contributors to the overall risk of core damage at a nuclear power plant (NPP). Potential sources of fire include permanent plant...

62.5-GHz Phased-Array Channel Sounder for Double-Directional Angle Estimation

July 1, 2019

Author(s)

Peter B. Papazian, Derek Caudill, Camillo Gentile, Jack Chuang, Nada T. Golmie

The paper describes implementation of phased array antennas for use in a wideband channel sounding system. The antennas are 62.5 GHz prototypes, utilizing SiGe...

SIS Contagion Avoidance on a Network Growing by Preferential Attachment

June 30, 2019

Author(s)

Brian D. Cloteaux, Vladimir V. Marbukh

The economic and convenience benefits of interconnectivity drive the current explosive growth in networked systems. However, as recent catastrophic contagious...

Reference data set and variability study for human skin reflectance

June 30, 2019

Author(s)

P. Yvonne Barnes, David W. Allen, Benjamin K. Tsai

The optical properties of human skin have been of interest to researchers for some time. Their interest is based on a need to know for a variety of different...

On the Use of Laboratory Scale Experiments to Better Understand Firebrand Generation From Large Outdoor Fires

June 30, 2019

Author(s)

Samuel L. Manzello, Sayaka Suzuki

Experiments were conducted using mock-ups of full-scale roofing assemblies to determine if any insight into firebrand generation from real-scale structures as...

Non Nulling Measurements of Flue Gas Flows in a Coal-Fired Power Plant Stack

June 28, 2019

Author(s)

Aaron N. Johnson, Iosif I. Shinder, Bernard J. Filla, Joey T. Boyd, Rodney A. Bryant, Michael R. Moldover

Exhaust flows from coal-fired stacks are determined by measuring the flue gas velocity at prescribed points in the stack cross section. During the last 30+...

Reproducibility of Liquid Micro-Flow Measurements

June 26, 2019

Author(s)

John D. Wright, James W. Schmidt

New applications in biology, medicine, and manufacturing require reliable measurements of liquid flows smaller than 100 υL/min. NIST addressed this requirement...

Automated Substitution Weighing Apparatus for Liquid Volume Measurement

June 26, 2019

Author(s)

John D. Wright, Sherry D. Sheckels, Joey T. Boyd

The custody transfer of petroleum worth $1 × 10 12 / year is traced to the volume delivered from provers and liquid test measures. Mistakes as small as 0.02 %...

Selecting Building Characteristics to Predict Seismic Retrofit Costs of a Building Portfolio

June 26, 2019

Author(s)

Juan F. Fung, Siamak Sattar, David T. Butry, Steven L. McCabe

An accurate yet simple estimate of the retrofit cost plays an important role in the decision-making process of retrofitting existing buildings. Fung et al....

Toward data-driven production simulation modeling: dispatching rule identification by machine learning techniques

June 24, 2019

Author(s)

Satoshi Nagahara, Timothy A. Sprock, Moneer Helu

Production simulation is useful to predict and optimize future production. However, it requires much effort and expertize to create accurate simulation models...

Optimization of Air-to-Refrigerant Evaporator with Low-GWP Refrigerants

June 23, 2019

Author(s)

Piotr A. Domanski

An analytical evaluation of the performance of low-GWP refrigerants in a finned-tube evaporator used for residential cooling applications will be presented. The...

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