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Conferences

A Multiscale Framework for the Prediction of Concrete Self-Desiccation

March 1, 2018

Author(s)

Madura Pathirage, Dale P. Bentz, Giovanni Di Luzio, Enrico Masoero, Gianluca Cusatis

Cement hydration in concrete and mortar has been studied thoroughly over the past 50 years. To fully understand hydration in concrete and predict the evolution...

A Framework to Enable Multiple Coexisting Internet of Things Applications

March 1, 2018

Author(s)

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

Internet of Things (IoT) uses modern information communication technologies to connect massive numbers of objects and support numerous smart critical...

Novel multiscale characterization of carbon nanotube grafted fiber-reinforced polymer composites.

February 25, 2018

Author(s)

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

Hierarchical carbon nanotube-alumina oxide fiber reinforced composites and oxide hydration kinetics

February 25, 2018

Author(s)

Ajay Krishnamurthy, Andrew Liotta, Brian L. Wardle, Aaron Forster

The growth of carbon nanotubes directly from fiber surfaces has led to new concepts for fiber reinforced polymer composites (FRP) that are conductive, thermally...

New Connections for Enhancing Robustness of Precast Concrete Frame Structures

February 24, 2018

Author(s)

Travis E. Thonstad, Yihai Bao, Jonathan M. Weigand, Joseph A. Main, Hai S. Lew

A recent experimental and computational study of two precast concrete moment-frame assemblies under a column removal scenario revealed vulnerabilities in the...

Large Field of View Quantitative Phase Imaging of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells and Optical Pathlength Reference Materials

February 23, 2018

Author(s)

Edward J. Kwee, Alexander W. Peterson, Jeffrey R. Stinson, Michael W. Halter, Liya Yu, Michael P. Majurski, Joe Chalfoun, Peter Bajcsy, John T. Elliott

Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) are reprogrammed cells that can have heterogeneous biological potential. Quality assurance metrics of reprogrammed iPSCs...

Mass Measurements of Focal Adhesions in Single Cells Using High Resolution Surface Plasmon Resonance Microscopy

February 22, 2018

Author(s)

Alexander Peterson, Alessandro Tona, Michael Halter, Anne Plant, John Elliott

Surface plasmon resonance microscopy (SPRM) is a powerful label-free imaging technique with spatial resolution approaching the optical diffraction limit. The...

Implementations of the Tennessee Eastman Process in Modelica

February 22, 2018

Author(s)

Carla Martin-Villalba, Alfonso Urquia, Guodong Shao

The Tennessee Eastman process is a typical industrial process that consists of five main process units: a two-phase reactor where an exothermic reaction occurs...

Scattering properties of ultrafast laser-induced refractive index shaping lenticular structures in hydrogels

February 19, 2018

Author(s)

Kaitlin Wozniak, Thomas Germer, Sam Butler, Daniel Brooks, Krystel Huxlin, Jonathan D. Ellis

We present measurements of light scatter induced by a new ultrafast laser technique being developed for laser refractive correction in transparent ophthalmic...

AN INVESTIGATION OF DIFFERENT STRATEGIES FOR SOLVING COUPLED THERMAL AIRFLOWS BY MULTI-ZONE NETWORK METHOD

February 15, 2018

Author(s)

Ali Katal, Liangzhu Wang, William Stuart Dols, Brian Polidoro

Natural ventilation (NV) is a method of allowing fresh outdoor air into indoor living spaces by natural means without the use of air conditioning units and...

Application of Link Adaptation in Body Area Networks

February 15, 2018

Author(s)

Kamran Sayrafian, Martina Barbi, Mehdi Alasti

A Body Area Network (BAN) is a wireless protocol for connectivity of wearable and implantable sensors located inside, on the surface or near the human body...

ETP algorithm : Increasing Spatial Reuse in Wireless LANs dense environment using ETX

February 15, 2018

Author(s)

Tanguy Ropitault, Nada T. Golmie

To address the issues related to the extreme densification of wireless networks, namely increased interference and lower overall throughput, the IEEE 802.11ax...

A Kinetics Based Models for Environmentally Induced Sealant Degradation

February 12, 2018

Author(s)

Donald L. Hunston, Christopher C. White

Caulks and sealants are a critical part of any structure that is exposed to the environment. Although they are good materials, they eventually fail, and the...

Unsupervised Clustering for Millimeter-Wave Channel Propagation Modeling

February 11, 2018

Author(s)

Jian Wang, Camillo Gentile, Jelena Senic, Roy Sun, Peter B. Papazian

We have designed and assembled millimeter-wave channel sounders at 28, 60, and 83 GHz. They can measure the three-dimensional (azimuth and elevation) double...

High Quality Oxide Films Deposited at Room Temperature by Ion Beam Sputtering

February 5, 2018

Author(s)

Gerard E. Henein, Juraj Topolancik, Kerry NMN Siebein

SiO2, Al2O3 and ITO have been deposited via ion beam sputtering at room temperature. The SiO2 films, 100 nm thick, were highly insulating with a resistivity of...

Repeatability and Reproducibility of Forensic Likelihood Ratio Methods when Sample Size Ratio Varies

January 31, 2018

Author(s)

Elham Tabassi, Larry Tang, Xiaochen Zhu

Existing statistical methods for estimating the log- likelihood ratio from biometric scores include parametric estimation, kernel density estimation, and...

Investigation of Alteration of Li-6 Enriched Neutron Shielding Glass

January 31, 2018

Author(s)

Jamie Weaver, Danyal J. Turkoglu

Silicate glass doped with 6Li is a common slow neutron shielding material, and has been utilized as such in several neutron research facilities. 6Li is a unique...

Wafer Level EDMR with Spatial Resolution Capabilities: Magnetic Resonance in a Probing

January 31, 2018

Author(s)

Duane J. McCrory, Mark A. Anders, Jason Ryan, Pragya Shrestha, Kin (Charles) Cheung, Patrick M. Lenahan, Jason Campbell

Influence of Lucky Defect Distributions on Early TDDB Failures in SiC Power MOSFETs

January 31, 2018

Author(s)

Jaafar Chbili, Zakariae Chbili, Asahiko Matsuda, Kin (Charles) Cheung, Jason Ryan, Jason Campbell, M Lahbabi

Metrological and legal traceability of time signals

January 30, 2018

Author(s)

Demetrios Matsakis, Judah Levine, Michael A. Lombardi

Metrological traceability requires an unbroken chain of calibrations that relate to a reference, with each calibration having a documented measurement...

Implementation of SDR TWSTFT in UTC Computation

January 30, 2018

Author(s)

Zhiheng Jiang, Felicitas Arias, Victor S. Zhang, Yi-Jiun Huang, Joseph Ackhar, Dirk Piester, Shinn-Yan Lin, Wenjun Wu, Andrey Naumov, Sung-hoon Yang, Jerzy Nawrocki, Ilaria Sesia, Christian Schlunegger, Kun Liang

Two-Way Satellite Time and Frequency Transfer (TWSTFT or TW for short) is a primary technique for the realization of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), which is...

Improving packet synchronization in an NTP server

January 29, 2018

Author(s)

Andrew N. Novick, Michael A. Lombardi, Kevin Franzen, John Clark

A computer or dedicated client can use the Network Time Protocol (NTP) to synchronize an internal clock to a server that is synchronized by a 1 pulse-per-second...

Flammability: A Continuum Vs. Discrete Boundary

January 24, 2018

Author(s)

Gregory T. Linteris

The goals of this talk are: 1.) Understand that flammability behavior is device/configuration dependent, and 2.) Understand the features that influence the...

Fragility Risks of Low Latency Dynamic Queuing in Large-Scale Clouds: Complex System Perspective

January 23, 2018

Author(s)

Vladimir V. Marbukh

Economic, reliability, and low latency benefits of cloud computing model are the result of high level of dynamic resource sharing, made possible by high degree...

Parametric resonance in linear microresonators using analog feedback

January 21, 2018

Author(s)

Jason J. Gorman, Vikrant J. Gokhale

This paper reports on the design and implementation of an analog feedback controller for generating parametric resonance in linear microresonators that do not...

Identifying spurious modes in RF-MEMS resonators using photoelastic imaging

January 21, 2018

Author(s)

Vikrant J. Gokhale, Jason J. Gorman

This paper reports the first use of dynamic photoelastic imaging for identifying in-plane vibration modes in high-frequency MEMS resonators. In a set of width...

Thermodynamic Analysis of Classical and Quantum Search Algorithms

January 19, 2018

Author(s)

Ray A. Perlner, Yi-Kai Liu

We analyze the performance of classical and quantum search algorithms from a thermodynamic perspective, focusing on resources such as time, energy, and memory...

Hybrid Datafication of Maintenance Logs from AI-Assisted Human Tags

January 15, 2018

Author(s)

Thurston B. Sexton, Michael P. Brundage, Michael L. Hoffman, Katherine C. Morris

One of the main challenges of applying AI to some datasets derives from the datasets themselves being unstructured, unclear, and ambiguous. Furthermore, the...

Qualitative Multidimensional Calibration Comparison

January 15, 2018

Author(s)

Aric W. Sanders, Ronald A. Ginley, Christian J. Long, Jasper A. Drisko, Nathan D. Orloff, Richard A. Chamberlin

We present a technique for the visual comparison of any two vector network analyzer calibrations. This method visualizes the comparative action of the...

How to extract distributed circuit parameters from the scattering parameters of a transmission line

January 15, 2018

Author(s)

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

Distributed circuit parameters parameterize the transmission and reflection off a given transmission line in terms of a distributed resistance, inductance...

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