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Conferences

Nanoscale tuning fork cavity optomechanical transducers with design-enabled frequency tuning and temperature compensation

June 7, 2018

Author(s)

Rui Zhang, Robert Ilic, Yuxiang Liu, Vladimir Aksyuk

In this work, we design, fabricate and characterize monolithic, nanoscale Si3N4 tuning fork cavity optomechanical transducers with design enabled tuning of

Fire Safety Challenges of Tall Wood Buildings: Large-Scale Cross Laminated Timber Compartment Fire Tests

June 6, 2018

Author(s)

Matthew S. Hoehler, Joseph Su, Pier-Simon Lafrance, Matthew F. Bundy, Amanda Kimball, Daniel Brandon, Birgit Ostman

This study investigates the contribution of cross laminated timber (CLT) building elements to compartment fires. Six compartments (9.1 m long x 4.6 m wide x 2.7

HYBRID FIRE TESTING OF A SINGLE DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM LINEAR SYSTEM

June 6, 2018

Author(s)

Ana Sauca, Chao Zhang, Artur A. Chernovsky, Mina S. Seif

As the structural engineering industry transitions towards performance based design methods, a better understanding of the performance of structures as full

Influence of Fire on the Shear Capacity of Steel-Sheathed Cold-Formed Steel Framed Shear Walls

June 6, 2018

Author(s)

Matthew S. Hoehler, Blanca Andres Valiente

This paper discusses experimental investigations of the influence of real fires on the lateral load-carrying capacity of steel-sheathed cold-formed steel framed

FIRE PERFORMANCE OF LONG-SPAN COMPOSITE BEAMS WITH GRAVITY CONNECTIONS

June 6, 2018

Author(s)

Lisa Y. Choe, Selvarajah Ramesh, Mina S. Seif, Matthew S. Hoehler, William L. Grosshandler, John L. Gross, Matthew F. Bundy

Prescriptive fire-resistance ratings for structural components provide limited insight into the system-level performance of steel-concrete composite structures

Experimental Fire-Simulator For Post-Flashover Compartment Fires

June 6, 2018

Author(s)

Daniel Brandon, Joachim Schmid, Joseph Su, Matthew Hoehler, Birgit Ostman, Amanda Kimball

The number of tall timber buildings around the world is rapidly increasing as a result of changes in regulations and the development of new engineered timber

Formal Definition of Edge Computing: An Emphasis on Mobile Cloud and IoT Composition

June 5, 2018

Author(s)

Charif Mahmoudi, Abdella Battou, Fabrice Mourlin

AbstractMobile cloud computing is an emerging area where two trends come together to compose its major pillars. On one hand, the virtualization affecting the

Multiscale characterization of time dependent properties of carbon nanotube grafted fiber-reinforced polymer composites

June 4, 2018

Author(s)

Ajay Krishnamurthy, Ran Tao, Erkan N. Senses, Sagar Doshi, Erik Thostenson, Antonio Faraone, Aaron Forster

Combining viscoelastic properties and architecture to control the dynamic response of soft materials

June 4, 2018

Author(s)

Aaron Forster, Michael Riley

Blunt trauma and brain injury can occur during impacts at energies and velocities below those observed in ballistic and blast events. During low to medium

Application of Digital Image Correlation to Structures in Fire

June 4, 2018

Author(s)

Christopher M. Smith, Matthew Hoehler

The behavior of engineering structures in fire is commonly studied through large-scale experiments. However, temperature-varying material properties, spatially

A SILICON OPTOMECHANICAL ACCELEROMETER WITH HIGH BANDWIDTH AND SENSITIVITY

June 3, 2018

Author(s)

Yiliang Bao, Feng Zhou, Thomas W. LeBrun, Jason J. Gorman

IMAGING GIGAHERTZ DYNAMICS IN MICROMECHANICAL RESONATORS USING ULTRAFAST PULSED LASER INTERFEROMETRY

June 3, 2018

Author(s)

Lei Shao, Vikrant J. Gokhale, Justin Kuo, Amit Lal, Jason J. Gorman

Optomechanical transducer-based soft and high frequency nanoscale cantilever for atomic force microscopy

June 2, 2018

Author(s)

Sang M. An, Jie Zou, Glenn Holland, Jungseok Chae, Andrea Centrone, Vladimir Aksyuk

We introduce an optomechanical transducer-based nanoscale cantilever for atomic force microscope (AFM). The high optical quality factor of the microdisk

PROGRESS AND CHALLENGES IN MODELING COMMUNITY RESILIENCE: AN UPDATE ON THE CENTER FOR RISK-BASED COMMUNITY RESILIENCE PLANNING

June 2, 2018

Author(s)

John W. van de Lindt, Bruce Ellingwood, Therese P. McAllister, Paolo Gardoni, Daniel Cox

The resilience of urban communities has garnered significant attention in industry, government, and academic research over the last decade. Recent events such

Comparison of Neutronics Performance Characteristics of the Proposed NIST Reactor with Different LEU Fuels

June 1, 2018

Author(s)

Danyal J Turkoglu, Zeyun Wu, Robert E. Williams, Thomas Henderson Newton

A conceptual design of a new reactor with a horizontally-split core using low-enriched uranium silicide dispersion (U 3Si 2/Al) fuel has recently been studied

STUDY ON FIREBRAND GENERATION FROM ROOFING ASSEMBLY COMBUSTION

May 28, 2018

Author(s)

Samuel Manzello, Sayaka Suzuki, Tomohiro Naruse

Paper is extended two page abstract.

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON IGNITIONS OF THATCHED ROOFING ASSEMBLIES EXPOSED FROM FIREBRANDS

May 28, 2018

Author(s)

Samuel Manzello, Sayaka Suzuki

Paper is two page extended abstract.

Through-focus Scanning Optical Microscopy Applications

May 24, 2018

Author(s)

Ravikiran Attota

A Dynamic Rate Adaptation Scheme for M2M Communications

May 24, 2018

Author(s)

Yalong Wu, Wei Yu, David W. Griffith, Nada T. Golmie

The number of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) devices has continued to grow at an accelerated rate. Without thoughtful and efficient resource management, M2M

Modeling and Simulation Analysis of the Physical Sidelink Shared Channel (PSSCH)

May 24, 2018

Author(s)

David W. Griffith, Fernando J. Cintron, Timothy Hall, Richard A. Rouil

This paper examines the performance of the Long Term Evolution (LTE) Physical Sidelink Shared Channel (PSSCH) in out-of-coverage (OOC) device-to-device (D2D)

An improved method for calibrating solid-phase microextraction by direct loading

May 23, 2018

Author(s)

Mengyan Gong, Dustin Poppendieck

Solid-phase microextraction (SPME) has been widely used as a sampling technique for a variety of organic compounds due to its advantage of small sampling volume

Calibration of Solid- phase Microextension for Measuring Indoor Gas Phase SVOC Concentration

May 23, 2018

Author(s)

Mengyan Gong, Dustin Poppendieck

The most often used method to calibrate solid-phase microextraction (SPME) for measuring gas phase semi-volatile organic compound (SVOC) concentrations, i.e

A portable cold 87Rb atomic clock with frequency instability at one day in the 10^-15 range

May 21, 2018

Author(s)

Joshua J. Savory, F G. Ascarrunz, L I. Ascarrunz, Alessandro L. Banducci, M C. Delgado Aramburo, Y Dudin, Steven R. Jefferts

We present a small portable cold 87Rubidium atomic clock with frequency uncertainty of less than 𝟑 × 𝟏𝟎 −𝟏𝟓 in one day of averaging time. The clock is under

High-resolution antenna near-field imaging andsub-THz measurements with a small atomicvapor-cell sensing element

May 21, 2018

Author(s)

Christopher L. Holloway, Dave Anderson, Georg Raithel

Atomic sensing and measurement of millimeterwave (mmW) and THz electric fields using quantum-optical EIT spectroscopy of Rydberg states in atomic vapors has

Accurate and Precise Laser Spectroscopy: Emerging Technology for the Study of Atmospheric Constituents, Radiative Transfer, and Planetary Dynamics

May 21, 2018

Author(s)

Adam J. Fleisher, David A. Long, Joseph T. Hodges, Gerd A. Wagner, David F. Plusquellic

Effect of Local Oscillator Performance on UWB Based Indoor Localization System

May 21, 2018

Author(s)

Archita Hati, Fabio C. Da Silva, Vladislav P. Gerginov, Craig W. Nelson

We discuss the performance of a commercial Ultra-wideband (UWB) ranging technique for indoor localization. We study the influence of local oscillator's phase

Characterization of Five-Hole Probes used for Flow Measurement in Stack Emission Testing

May 16, 2018

Author(s)

Iosif Isaakovich Shinder, Aaron Johnson, Michael R. Moldover, James Filla, Vladimir Khromchenko

We report progress towards the goal of reducing the errors in industrial smokestack flow measurements to 1 % by replacing S-probes with calibrated 3-D probes (i

Progress Towards Accurate Monitoring of Flue Gas Emissions

May 16, 2018

Author(s)

Aaron Johnson, Iosif Isaakovich Shinder, Michael R. Moldover, Joey Boyd, James Filla

The amounts of CO2 and other pollutants emitted by a coal-fired power plant are measured using a continuous emissions monitoring system (CEMS) permanently

Finite Element Method Solution Uncertainty, Asymptotic Solution, and a New Approach to Accuracy Assessment

May 16, 2018

Author(s)

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

Errors and uncertainties in finite element method (FEM) computing can come from the following eight sources: (1) Computing platform; (2) choice of element types

Comparative Analysis of Bearing Health Monitoring Methods for Machine Tool Linear Axes

May 16, 2018

Author(s)

Jordan Jameson, Gregory W. Vogl

The study of rotating machinery ball bearing diagnostics and prognostics is quite mature and an abundance of methods/algorithms are available to perform these

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