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Conferences

Using graph-based visualizations to explore key performance indicator relationships for manufacturing production systems

March 9, 2017

Author(s)

Michael Brundage, William Z. Bernstein, KC Morris, John A. Horst

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are crucial for measuring and improving the performance of a manufacturing process. An especially critical aspect of...

Time and frequency from electrical power lines

March 6, 2017

Author(s)

Jonathan E. Hardis, Demetrios Matsakis, Blair Fonville

Due to the efforts of Henry Warren, inventor of the Telechron electric clock, electric power companies have been a source of time and frequency reference for...

Fair Resource Allocation in the Citizen Broadband Radio Service Band

March 6, 2017

Author(s)

Anirudha Sahoo

The Citizen Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) band has three tiers of users. The General Authorized Access (GAA) has the lowest priority and operates without a...

IAQ Assessments in High Performing Building

March 5, 2017

Author(s)

Kevin Teichman, Steven Emmerich, Andrew K. Persily

Despite numerous efforts to encourage good indoor air quality (IAQ) in high-performing buildings, including several building rating programs, measured IAQ...

An Analytical Model for Inference Attacks on the Incumbent's Frequency in Spectrum Sharing

March 5, 2017

Author(s)

Azza Ben Mosbah, Timothy Hall, Michael R. Souryal, Hossam Afifi

In spectrum sharing, incumbents with sensitive parameters require full protection of their operations. The incumbent's protection includes the protection of its...

3.5 GHz Environmental Sensing Capability Sensitivity Requirements and Deployment

March 5, 2017

Author(s)

Thao T. Nguyen, Anirudha Sahoo, Michael R. Souryal, Timothy Hall

Spectrum sharing in the 3.5 GHz band between commercial and government users along U.S. coastal areas depends on an Environmental Sensing Capability (ESC), a...

Managing Systematic Errors in the NBSR Thermal Power Calorimetric Measurements

February 27, 2017

Author(s)

Dagistan NMN Sahin, Samuel J MacDavid

NBSR Reactor Control Room Upgrade

February 27, 2017

Author(s)

Dagistan NMN Sahin

Cyber Security using Multi-Threaded Architecture Data Diode at the NBSR

February 27, 2017

Author(s)

Scott D Arneson, Dagistan Sahin

Carbon Dioxide Generation Rates from Building Occupants

February 26, 2017

Author(s)

Andrew K. Persily

Be Prepared: How US Government Experts Think About Cybersecurity

February 26, 2017

Author(s)

Mary F. Theofanos, Brian C. Stanton, Sandra S. Prettyman, Susanne M. Furman, Simson L. Garfinkel

Comparison between angularly and spectrally resolved gloss measurements with gloss measurements carried out on a national reference goniometer for gloss calibration

February 22, 2017

Author(s)

Andree R. Charriere, Maria E. Nadal, Clarence Zarobila

The present work consists in developing a procedure which will allow to compare gloss values obtained from an angularly and spectrally resolved Bidirectional...

Analytical Tools for Point Source Interferometry

February 20, 2017

Author(s)

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

Light pulse atom interferometry can be used to realize high-performance sensors of accelerations and rotations. In order to broaden the range of applications of...

Wind Speeds for the Estimation of World Trade Center Towers' Response

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

William P. Fritz, Fahim H. Sadek, Emil Simiu

Estimates of the World Trade Center (WTC) towers response to wind by two North American wind engineering laboratories differed from each other by almost 40 %. A...

Wind Effects on High-Rise Buildings: Database-Assisted Design Versus the High-Frequency Force-Balance Technique

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

M Iancovici, Michael A. Riley, Fahim H. Sadek, Emil Simiu

Database-assisted design (DAD) was originally developed for low-rise buildings. In this paper we show that it applies to flexible high-rise buildings as well...

Microstructure-Wear Resistance Relationships for YSZ and Alumina Plasma Sprayed Deposits

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

J Ilavsky, H Boukari

A simple sectioning method was applied to investigate the changes in the wear resistance of two thermally sprayed deposits, two yttrium-stabilized zirconia (YSZ...

Polyurethane Composites Reinforced by Isocyanate-Functionalized Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes and Carbon Nanofibers

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

Aline Granier, Tinh Nguyen, Alexander J. Shapiro, Jonathan W. Martin

The performance of polyurethane (PU) composites reinforced by isocyanate-functionalized multi-walled carbon nanotubes (NCO-fMWCNT) and isocyanate-functionalized...

The 48th Annual Denver X-Ray Conference

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

Winnie Wong-Ng

The 48th Annual Denver X-ray Conference took place at Sheraton Steamboat Resort, Colorado, from August 2-6, 1999. This meeting was well attended, with a...

Thermal Diffusivity of AIN Using the Photothermal Deflection Technique

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

E J. Gonzalez

The thermal conductivity of AIN specimens doped with Y2O3(5 wt.%) was determined using the photothermal deflection technique. The results agree within 10% of...

Relationship Between Microstructure and Wear of Dental Ceramics and Composite Resins

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

V S. Nagarajan, S Jahanmir, B Hockey, Victoria Thompson

The effect of microstructure on the wear mechanisms of glass-ceramics and resin composites was studied. Wear tests on both types of materials were conducted...

Applicability of Database-Assisted Design to Tall Buildings

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

William P. Fritz

Enhancement of Mercuric Iodide Detector Performance Through Crystal Growth in Microgravity: The Roles of Lattice Order

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

B W. Steiner, L van den Berg, U Laor

The hole mobility and carrier lifetime of [alpha] mercuric iodide high energy radiation detectors have been enhanced through crystal growth in microgravity. The...

Effects of Large Grains on Transgranular Fracture Toughness

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

Stephen W. Freiman

This paper addresses issues of fracture for materials in which large grains, exist in a matrix of much smaller grains. Materials used for optical components...

Boundary Lubricated Friction Experiments With Coarse Surface Texture

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

Jorn Larsen-Basse, L K. Ives, Stephen M. Hsu

Low-speed friction experiments were conducted under boundary lubrication in a pin-on-disk tester. The 304 stainless steel disk had smooth areas alternating with...

Transient Creep Cavity Growth in Structural Ceramics

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

A F. Bower, Tze J. Chuang

Long-term service life of a load-bearing ceramic component such as a turbine blade atelevated temperatures is often controlled by the rates of nucleation and...

Role of Melting Equilbria in the Processing of High T-c Superconductors in the BSCCO System

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

Winnie Wong-Ng, Lawrence P. Cook, Anthony J. Kearsley, A R. Roosen

Three types of liquids were found in the BSCCO system: transient, metastable, and stable liquids. The roles of these liquids are discussed with examples...

Nanofriction: The Observation of Elastic Plowing

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

Z C. Ying, Stephen M. Hsu

Accurate friction measurement at nanoscale is critical in reliable device design. Literature papers have reported different friction values for the same...

Elastic Anomaly in SrTiO3 Thin Films Grown on Si(001)

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

Joseph Woicik, F S. Aguirre-Tostado, A Herrera-Gomez, R Droopad, D G. Schlom, P Zschack, E Karapetrova, P Pianetta

Effect of Colloidal Probe Random Surface Features on Adhesion

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

Seung H. Yang, Stephen M. Hsu

We have uncovered the fact that colloidal probes often have random surface features which when not properly accounted for, can significantly affect the...

Development of Multilayer Analyzer Array Detectors for X-Ray Fluorescence at the Third Generation Synchrotron Source

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

K Zhang, G Rosenbaum, R Liu, G Bunker, C Y. Liu, Daniel A. Fischer

The development of Multilayer Analyzer Array Detector (MADD) for X-ray fluorescence is to eliminate the count rate limitation encountered with the multi-element...

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