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Conferences

Model-based Cosimulation for Industrial Wireless Networks

June 15, 2018

Author(s)

Ging Jeng, Honglei Li, Yanzhou Liu, Yongkang Liu, Mohamed Hany, Rick Candell, Shuvra Bhattacharyya

Wireless communications technology has the potential to provide major benefits in lowering the cost and increasing the efficiency of factory automation (FA)...

A New Calibration Method for Achieving High Insertion-Loss Measurements with a Vector Network Analyzer

June 14, 2018

Author(s)

Jeffrey Jargon, Dylan Williams

We present a new calibration method for achieving high insertion-loss measurements with a vector network analyzer (VNA). The method requires a characterized...

Towards Developing Standardized Usability Evaluation Methodology for Public Safety Communications Technology: A User-Centered Approach

June 14, 2018

Author(s)

Kristen Greene, Shanee T. Dawkins, Yee-Yin Choong, Mary F. Theofanos, Sandra S. Prettyman, Susanne M. Furman, Michelle P. Steves

In public safety and homeland security, it is critical to understand technology users primary goals, the characteristics of the users, and the context in which...

Measuring Ion-Pairing in Buffer Solutions with Microwave Microfluidics

June 14, 2018

Author(s)

Angela C. Stelson, Charles A. Little, Nathan D. Orloff, Christian J. Long, James C. Booth

Microwave microfluidics is an emergent technique for characterizing conductivity and permittivity of fluids and has wide-ranging applications in the materials...

Impact of Phase Calibration on EVM Measurement Quality

June 14, 2018

Author(s)

Diogo Ribeiro, Dylan Williams, Richard Chamberlin, Nuno B. Carvalho

In this paper, the calibrated measurement of wideband modulated signals by mixer-based large-signal network analyzers (LSNAs) will be evaluated, with a focus on...

Importance of Preserving Correlations in Error-Vector-MagnitudeUncertainty

June 14, 2018

Author(s)

Ben Jamroz, Dylan Williams, Kate Remley, Rob Horansky

Correlations are an important consideration in the uncertainty analysis of high-frequency electronic systems. We introduce a method to scramble the correlations...

Characterisation of New Planar Radiometric Detectors using Carbon Nanotube Absorbers under Development at NIST

June 13, 2018

Author(s)

Malcolm G. White, Nathan A. Tomlin, Christopher S. Yung, Michelle S. Stephens, Ivan Ryger, Solomon I. Woods, John H. Lehman, Igor Vayshenker

Carbon nanotube technology, in conjunction with silicon micro-fabrication techniques, has enabled us to develop planar radiometric detectors, which has led to...

Dimensioning Wireless Use Cases in Industrial Internet of Things

June 12, 2018

Author(s)

Yongkang Liu, Rick Candell, Mohamed Hany, Lotfi Benmohamed

Industrial wireless is becoming increasingly needed in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) for carrying mission-critical data to leverage the visibility...

Sesame: A Numerical Simulation Tool for Polycrystalline Photovoltaics

June 11, 2018

Author(s)

Benoit H. Gaury, Yubo Sun, Peter Bermel, Paul M. Haney

We present a new software simulation tool "Sesame", which solves the drift-diffusion-Poisson equations in 1 and 2-dimensions. Sesame is distributed both as an...

Nanoscale imaging of photocurrent in perovskite solar cells using near-field scanning photocurrent microscopy

June 10, 2018

Author(s)

Dongheon Ha, Yohan Yoon, Ik Jae Park, Paul M. Haney, Nikolai B. Zhitenev

We study photocurrent generation and collection of methylammonium lead iodide perovskite solar cells with nanoscale resolution using a near-field scanning...

Understanding the Performance and Challenges of DNS Query Name Minimization

June 9, 2018

Author(s)

Zheng Wang

As a promising solution to DNS privacy, query name minimization limits the unnecessary leakage of query name information in DNS requests. Due to the lack of...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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