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Conferences

Rheology of ballistic clay: the effect of temperature and shear history

May 9, 2017

Author(s)

Ran Tao, Kirk D. Rice, Aaron M. Forster

Ballistic clay is used as a backing material for standards-based ballistic resistance tests for the purposes of providing a measure of the energy transferred to...

NIST Cloud Computing Program Supporting the U.S. Cloud Computing Strategy

Author(s)

Eric D. Simmon

Cloud computing is the next step in the continued evolution of information systems. Cloud computing allows consumers to choose what and how they want services...

Nanoparticle Release from Polymer Nanocomposites Used for Potable Water Infrastructure and Food Packaging: Current Progress & Beyond

Author(s)

Andrew Whelton, T.V. Duncan , J.L. Koontz , Tinh Nguyen

Nanoparticle (NP) enhanced polymers have the potential to revolutionize food packaging and water pipe performance, though release from these materials has gone...

Characterizing and Fractionating Native Cellulose Nanofibers

Author(s)

Iulia A. Sacui, Jeffrey W. Gilman

Cellulose nanofibers have good elastic modulus properties and can be used as nano-reinforcements in polymer composites. Native cellulose nanofibers from wood...

Buckling of steel gusset plates

Author(s)

Chiara Crosti, Dat Duthinh

As a result of the structural failure of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis in 2007, FHWA issued guidelines for the load rating of gusset plates and recommended...

Metrology and process control: dealing with measurement uncertainty

Author(s)

James E. Potzick

Metrology is often used in designing and controlling manufacturing processes. A product sample is processed, some relevant property is measured, and the process...

Preliminary Digital Preservation Interoperability Framework (DPIF) Results

Author(s)

Wo L. Chang

In October 2009, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO)/ International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) Joint Technical Committee 1 (JTC 1)...

Advanced Digital Image Archival System Using MPEG Technologies

Author(s)

Wo L. Chang

Digital information and records are vital to the human race regardless of the nationalities and eras in which they were produced. Digital image contents are...

Handover-based Call Admission Control in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

Author(s)

Nicolas Chevrollier, Nada T. Golmie, Nicolas Montavont

With the need for mobility comes stringent quality of service requirements that have to be met before users are able to roam seamlessly across different network...

Receiver Sensitivity in CSMA Networks

Author(s)

B Yan, Hamid Gharavi

This paper aims at improving the power efficiency of the CSMA/CA protocol for transmission of multimedia information over multihop wireless channels. Using a...

Wind Loading Codification in the Americas: Fundamentals for a Renewal

Author(s)

Emil Simiu

A survey of current wind engineering practices and their reflection in codes and standards reveals the existence of areas in which substantial progress needs to...

Development of a miniature radiation pressure-measuring microscale

Author(s)

Ivan Ryger, Alexandra B. Artusio-Glimpse, Paul A. Williams, Nathan A. Tomlin, Michelle S. Stephens, Matthew T. Spidell, John H. Lehman

Traditional methods for accurate measurement of high-power lasers involve total absorption of the laser light [1]. Our method, however, measures photon pressure...

Group Discovery Time in Device-to-Device (D2D) Proximity Services (ProSe) Networks

May 4, 2017

Author(s)

David W. Griffith, Aziza Ben Mosbah, Richard A. Rouil

Device-to-device (D2D) communications for Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks relies on a discovery process to enable User Equipment (UE) to determine which D2D...

Fully-Stabilized All Polarization-Maintaining Fiber Erbium Frequency Comb

May 3, 2017

Author(s)

Laura C. Sinclair, Ian R. Coddington, William C. Swann, Kana Iwakuni, Nathan R. Newbury

We demonstrate a completely polarization-maintaining fiber frequency comb operating at a 200 MHz repetition rate and show stability and noise performance...

Comparing the Usability of Cryptographic APIs

May 1, 2017

Author(s)

Yasemin Acar, Michael Backes, Sascha Fahl, Simson L. Garfinkel, Doowon Kim, Michelle L. Mazurek, Christian Stransky

Potentially dangerous cryptography errors are well-documented in many applications. Conventional wisdom suggests that many of these errors are caused by...

Improvements in Accelerometer Calibration at NIST Using Digital Vibrometry

April 29, 2017

Author(s)

Beverly F. Payne, Richard A. Allen, Colleen E. Hood

Improvements in shaker design and laser vibrometer development has provided more precise calibration of accelerometers. Calibrations are performed at...

Indicator frameworks

April 26, 2017

Author(s)

Sokwoo Rhee, Christine Kendrick, Abhishek Dubey, Joshua Tan

We develop a diagrammatic tool for constructing correlations between random variables, called an abstract indicator framework. Abstract indicator frameworks are...

Towards a Foundation for a Collaborative Replicable Smart Cities IoT Architecture

April 26, 2017

Author(s)

Sokwoo Rhee, Cuong Nguyen, Alexander Nelson, Daniel Hoffman, Greg Toth

The pervasive instrumentation of the physical world with sensors and actuators grants an unprecedented level of information granularity that is useful in...

Emerging Flood Model Validation Frameworks for Street-Level Inundation Modeling with StormSense

April 25, 2017

Author(s)

Cuong Nguyen, Sokwoo Rhee, Jon 'Derek' Loftis

Technological progression in flood monitoring methods and the proliferation of cost-efficient Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled water level sensors is opening...

Stuck in a moment: A view from the MIRE

April 20, 2017

Author(s)

Patrick Egan, Jack A. Stone Jr., Jacob Edmond Ricker, Jay H. Hendricks

The next-generation pressure standards will be realized via gas density and the equation of state. One way to access the density is through a measurement of gas...

Epistemic Uncertainty in Solution Algorithms for Analyzing Geometric Nonlinearity of Framed Structures

April 6, 2017

Author(s)

Kevin K F Wong, Siamak Sattar, Steven McCabe

One important aspect of performance-based earthquake engineering is developing structural models that can accurately capture key characteristics of dynamic...

Acceptance Criteria for Nonlinear Alternative Load Path Analysis of Steel and Reinforced Concrete Frame Structures

April 5, 2017

Author(s)

Jonathan Weigand, Yihai Bao, Joseph Main

Alternative load path analysis is the primary approach for evaluating the potential for disproportionate collapse in structural design. In this approach...

Alternative Load Path Analysis of a Prototype Reinforced Concrete Frame Building

April 5, 2017

Author(s)

Yihai Bao, Joseph Main, Hai S. Lew

This paper presents alternative load path analyses of a 5-bay by 5-bay, 10-story prototype reinforced concrete moment frame building under column loss scenarios...

Evaluating the Effects of Modeling Errors for Isolated Finite3-D Targets

March 29, 2017

Author(s)

Mark-Alexander Henn, Bryan Barnes, Hui Zhou

Optical 3-D nanostructure metrology utilizes a model-based metrology approach to determine critical dimensions (CDs) that are well below the inspection...

Assessing the wavelength extensibility of optical patterned defect inspection

March 29, 2017

Author(s)

Bryan Barnes, Hui Zhou, Mark-Alexander Henn, Martin Sohn, Richard M. Silver

Qualitative comparisons have been made in the literature between the scattering off deep- subwavelength-sized defects and the scattering off spheres in free...

High Strain Rate Mechanical Characterization of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites using Digital Image Correlations

March 28, 2017

Author(s)

Louise A. Ahure Powell, William E. Luecke, Matthias J. Merzkirch, Timothy J. Foecke, Katherine Avery

The introduction of carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) composites to structural components in lightweight automotive structures necessitates an assessment...

Elucidating the Structural and Electronic Properties of Solution-Synthesized 2D SnS Crystals

March 28, 2017

Author(s)

Adam J. Biacchi, Brian G. Alberding, Son T. Le, Joseph A. Hagmann, Sugata Chowdhury, Curt A. Richter, Edwin J. Heilweil, Angela R. Hight Walker

The vast majority of nanoscale 2D materials are synthesized by exfoliation or gas phase deposition techniques. Alternatively, bottom-up colloidal solution...

Trade-offs in Size and Performance for a Point Source Interferometer Gyroscope

March 27, 2017

Author(s)

Gregory W. Hoth, John E. Kitching, Elizabeth A. Donley, Bruno Pelle

Point source interferometry (PSI) is a promising technique that could lead to a compact, high- performance gyroscope based on atom interferometry. We consider...

Toward a Diagnostic and Prognostic Method for Knowledge-Driven Decision Making in Smart Manufacturing Technologies

March 24, 2017

Author(s)

Thomas D. Hedberg Jr., Allison Barnard Feeney, Jaime A. Camelio

Making high-quality manufacturing decisions in real-time is difficult. Smart manufacturing requires sufficient knowledge be available to the decision maker to...

Patterns for modeling operational control of discrete event logistics systems (DELS)

March 24, 2017

Author(s)

Timothy A. Sprock

Designing smart operational control systems for Discrete Event Logistics Systems (DELS) requires a standard description of control behaviors executed at the...

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