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Conferences

Industrial Wireless: Problem Space, Success Considerations, Technologies, and Future Direction

September 22, 2017

Author(s)

Richard Candell, Mohamed T. Hany

The use of wireless technologies within factories demands a comprehensive understanding of the problems and potential solutions associated with the rigors of...

High-efficiency superconducting detectors and their applications in quantum optics

September 21, 2017

Author(s)

Thomas Gerrits

High efficiency single-photon detection resides at the heart of many quantum information applications. Our efforts towards high efficiency, fast single photon...

Evaluating the Effects of Cyber-Attacks on Cyber Physical Systems using a Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation Testbed

September 21, 2017

Author(s)

Bradley Potteiger, William Emfinger, Himanshu Neema, Xenofon Koutsoukos, CheeYee Tang, Keith A. Stouffer

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) consist of embedded computers with sensing and actuation capability, and are integrated into and tightly coupled with a physical...

An Integrated Simulation Study on Reliable and Effective Distributed Energy Resources in Smart Grid

September 21, 2017

Author(s)

Sriharsha Mallapuram, Wei Yu, Paul Moulema, David W. Griffith, Nada T. Golmie, Fan Liang

The smart grid, as a cyber-physical system, consists of both cyber subsystems (e.g., control, communication networks) and physical subsystems (e.g., power grid)...

Quantum Randomness from Probability Estimation with Classical Side Information

September 20, 2017

Author(s)

Emanuel H. Knill, Yanbao Zhang, Peter L. Bierhorst

We develop a framework for certifying randomness from Bell test trials based on directly estimating the probability of the measurement outcomes with adaptive...

Bound Electron Nonlinearity Beyond the Ionization Threshold

September 18, 2017

Author(s)

Jared K. Wahlstrand, Sina Zahedpour, H M. Milchberg

Using supercontinuum spectral interferometry, we measure the ionization induced optical phase shift in three noble gases and nitrogen and oxygen. Results...

Conceptual System for Evaluating the Impact on Residential Life Safety of New Fire Protection Technology

September 18, 2017

Author(s)

Paul A. Reneke, Morgan Bruns, Richard D. Peacock, Thomas G. Cleary, Chandler P. MacLaren

Monitoring early-age shrinkage strain and temperature distributions in full-scale steel-concrete composite beams with distributed fiber optic sensors

September 14, 2017

Author(s)

Yi Bao, Matthew Hoehler, Lisa Choe, Matthew Klegseth, Genda Chen

Carbon Dioxide Generation Rates for Building Occupants

September 13, 2017

Author(s)

Andrew Persily

Black Box Measurement of System Noise in Integrated Wireless Receivers

September 13, 2017

Author(s)

Daniel G. Kuester, Duncan A. McGillivray, Sheryl M. Genco, Dazhen Gu

Tightly-integrated antennas and inaccessible radio frequency (RF) outputs are common barriers to measuring system noise in integrated wireless receive systems...

Behaviour of high-strength bolts at elevated temperatures under double-shear loading

September 13, 2017

Author(s)

Mina S. Seif, Jonathan M. Weigand, Rafaela Peixoto, Luiz Vieira

During fire events, connections in steel structures may be subjected to large unanticipated deformations and loads. Those fire effects can produce failures of...

Autonomous Relocation of Mobile Base Stations in Emergency Scenarios

September 12, 2017

Author(s)

Kamran Sayrafian, Ladan Rabieekenari, John Baras

Limited access to communication services is one of the challenges that emergency personnel and first responders could face during environmental disasters or...

Environmental KPI Selection Using Criteria Value and Demonstration

September 7, 2017

Author(s)

Shaw C. Feng, Deogratias Kibira

Determining key performance indicators (KPI) is a first step in achieving environmen-tal sustainability of manufacturing operations. KPI selection is a multi...

A review of current machine learning techniques used in manufacturing diagnosis

September 7, 2017

Author(s)

Michael P. Brundage, Toyosi Ademujimi, Vittaldas Prabhu

Business Process Context for Message Standards

September 7, 2017

Author(s)

Nenad Ivezic, Miroslav Ljubicic, Marija Jankovic, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Scott Nieman, Garret Minakawa

Despite unrelenting increase in complexity of message standards for enterprise systems integrations, there are no effective means to address this complexity...

Molecular engineering with artificial atoms: designing a material platform for scalable quantum spintronics and photonics

September 7, 2017

Author(s)

Matthew Doty, Xiangyu Ma, Joshua Zide, Garnett W. Bryant

Self-assembled InAs Quantum Dots (QDs) are often called artificial atoms" and have long been of interest as components of quantum photonic and spintronic...

Production System Identification with Genetic Programming

September 6, 2017

Author(s)

Peter O. Denno, Charles Dickerson, Jenny Harding

Modern system identification methodologies use artificial neural nets, integer linear programming, genetic algorithms, and swarm intelligence to discover system...

A DOMAIN DRIVEN APPROACH TO METAMODELING IN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING

September 6, 2017

Author(s)

Peter O. Denno, Yan Lu, Paul Witherell, Sundar Krishnamurty, Ian Grosse, Douglas Eddy

Recent studies have shown advantages to utilizing metamodeling techniques to mimic, analyze, and optimize system input-output relationships in Additive...

Evaluation of a Formaldehyde Emissions Reference Material

September 5, 2017

Author(s)

Dustin Poppendieck, Mengyan Gong

The development and use of low-volatile organic compounds (VOCs) building materials and products is a key strategy to reduce ventilation and energy use in...

Low-NEP pyroelectric detectors for calibration of UV and IR sources and detectors

September 5, 2017

Author(s)

George P. Eppeldauer, Vyacheslav B. Podobedov, Leonard Hanssen, P. Yvonne Barnes

Pyroelectric radiometers with spectrally constant response have been developed at NIST with the cooperation of a few detector manufacturers. The new devices...

Phase Retrieval Using Unitary 2-Designs

September 4, 2017

Author(s)

Yi-Kai Liu, Shelby Kimmel

We consider a variant of the phase retrieval problem, where vectors are replaced by unitary matrices, i.e., the unknown signal is a unitary matrix U, and the...

Bond Enhancement of Repair Mortar via Biodeposition

September 4, 2017

Author(s)

Didier Snoeck, Jianyun Wang, Dale P. Bentz, Nele De Belie

The bond between repair mortars and existing concrete substrates is critical for the long-term performance and durability of the repaired structure. The...

Using Cs and Rb Rydberg Atoms Simultaneously to Perform SI-Traceable RF Electric Field Measurements via Electromagnetically Induced Transparency

September 3, 2017

Author(s)

Christopher L. Holloway, Matthew T. Simons, Joshua A. Gordon

We discuss the use of cesium (Cs) and rubidium (Rb) Rydberg atoms to measure electric (E) field strengths. This work is leading to the development a...

Multiple Sources in a Reverberant Environment: The "Cocktail Party Effect"

September 3, 2017

Author(s)

Perry F. Wilson

This electronic Acoustics and electromagnetics have a number of parallels based on similar equations describing propagation, reflection, and reverberation. This...

Improvement Strategies for Manufacturers using the MESA MOM Capability Maturity Model

September 3, 2017

Author(s)

Quanri Li, Michael Brundage, Boonserm Kulvatunyou

Recently, the concept of smart manufacturing has emerged as a new paradigm, with which manufacturers can pursue their competitiveness in the market. Such a...

Application of desorption tube method to measure the gas-phase SVOC concentration adjacent to material surfaces

September 2, 2017

Author(s)

Mengyan Gong, Havishk Tripathi, Dustin Poppendieck

Semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOC) are ubiquitous indoors, commonly used in consumer products as additives to enhance product performance, and may be up to...

2015 NIST Workshop on Analytical Transmission Scanning Electron Microscopy

September 1, 2017

Author(s)

Robert Keller

The Workshop on Analytical Transmission Scanning Electron Microscopy (t-SEM) was held at the NIST Boulder Laboratories of the U. S. Department of Commerce...

FATIGUE CRACK GROWTH RATES OF API X70 PIPELINE STEELS IN PRESSURIZED HYDROGEN GAS COMPARED WITH AN X52 PIPELINE IN HYDROGEN SERVICE

September 1, 2017

Author(s)

Elizabeth S. Drexler, Andrew J. Slifka, Robert L. Amaro, Damian S. Lauria, Jeffrey W. Sowards

At the present time, steel selection for hydrogen pipelines is limited to API X52 grade. However, the code is being modified to include higher strength steels...

Small molecule inhibitors of DNA glycosylases as potential drugs in cancer therapy

August 31, 2017

Author(s)

M Miral Dizdar, Aaron C. Jacobs, Nathan Donley, Marcus J. Calkins, Ajit Jadhav, Dorjbal Dorjsuren, David Maloney, Anton Simeonov, Pawel Jaruga, Erdem Coskun, Amanda K. McCullough, R. S. Lloyd

Statement of the Problem: Most chemotherapeutic agents kill cancer cells by damaging DNA. Cancer cells overexpress DNA repair proteins and thus increase DNA...

A Thesaurus-guided Framework for Visualization of Unstructured Manufacturing Capability Data

August 31, 2017

Author(s)

Farhad Ameri, William Z. Bernstein

Manufacturing companies advertise their manufacturing capabilities and services on their company website using natural language text. The unstructured...

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