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Conferences

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Physical and Chemical Transformations of Silver Nanomaterials in Textiles After Use and Disposal

May 14, 2018

Author(s)

Danielle E. Gorka, Justin Gorham

Silver nanomaterials (AgNMs) have been increasingly used in consumer products for their antibacterial properties. Textiles, including wound dressings, are just...

Ultra-high spectral resolution spectrometer for single photon source characterization

May 14, 2018

Author(s)

Lijun Ma, Oliver T. Slattery, Xiao Tang

In future quantum communication systems, single photons will be required to possess very narrow linewidths and accurate wavelengths for efficient interaction...

Polarized single-scattering phase function determined for a common reflectance standard from bidirectional reflectance measurements

May 14, 2018

Author(s)

Thomas A. Germer

We report on Mueller matrix bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) measurements of a sintered polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) sample over the...

Physical and Chemical Transformations of Silver Nanomaterial-containing Textiles After Use

May 13, 2018

Author(s)

Danielle E. Gorka, Justin Gorham

Nanomaterials have been increasingly used in consumer products and silver nanomaterials (AgNMs) especially have been used for their antimicrobial properties. As...

Problems with Stirred Immunity Measurements in a Reverberation Chamber -- Corrections to DO-160G Section 20.6

May 13, 2018

Author(s)

John M. Ladbury

Abstract—When DO-160G, Environmental Conditions and Test Procedures for Airborne Equipment [1], Section 20.6, was modified in 2010 to simplify electromagnetic...

Towards Light Storage and Retrieval from a Solid-State Atomic Ensemble at the Single-Photon Level

May 13, 2018

Author(s)

Kumel H. Kagalwala, Elizabeth A. Goldschmidt, Sergey V. Polyakov, Alan L. Migdall

We report progress towards the implementation of a quantum memory in a rare-earth ion-doped crystal. Toward that goal, we demonstrate a narrowband spectral...

Using Temperature to Reduce Noise in Quantum Frequency Conversion

May 12, 2018

Author(s)

Paulina Kuo, Jason S. Pelc, Carsten Langrock, M. M. Fejer

A main source of noise in quantum frequency conversion is spontaneous Raman scattering, which can be reduced by lowering the operating temperature. We show...

Vibrational Interferometry Enables Single-Scan Acquisition of all χ⁽³⁾ Multi-Dimensional Coherent Spectral Maps

May 12, 2018

Author(s)

Travis M. Autry, Galan Moody, James M. Fraser, Corey A. McDonald, Richard Mirin, Kevin L. Silverman

We demonstrate a new method for multidimensional coherent spectroscopy of nanostructures. We use a heterodyne technique implemented with a confocal microscope...

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