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Frederic Overney, Nathan Flowers-Jacobs, Blaise Jeanneret, Alain Rufenacht, Anna Fox, Jason Underwood, Andrew D. Koffman, Samuel P. Benz
This paper describes a Josephson-based impedance bridge capable of comparing any types of impedance over a large bandwidth. The heart of the bridge is a dual AC...
Xiaohai Cui, Yu S. Meng, Rolf Judaschke, Juergen Ruehaak, Thomas P. Crowley, Ronald A. Ginley
This paper reports preliminary measurement results of an informal international power comparison in WR15 (50 GHz to 75 GHz) waveguide among NIST, NIM, PTB and...
Patrick Egan, Jack A. Stone Jr., Jacob Edmond Ricker, Jay H. Hendricks
We have developed a new low pressure sensor which is based on the measurement of (nitrogen) gas refractivity inside a Fabry-Perot (FP) cavity. We compare...
Steve Gwynne, Karen E. Boyce, Erica D. Kuligowski, Daniel Nilsson, Amanda Robbins, Ruggiero Lovreglio
This article explores how egress drills are currently employed, their impact, and the insights gained from them. By investigating their strengths and...
Wildfires that spread into communities, referred to as Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) fires, have destroyed communities throughout the world. Large outdoor...
Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) fires have become a problem of great concern worldwide. Japan is located in one of the most earthquake prone areas of the world...
Guodong Shao, Peter O. Denno, Albert T. Jones, Yan Lu
Integrating advanced process control solutions with optimization (APC-O) solutions, within any factory, enables more efficient production processes. Currently...
Curve registration problems in data analysis and com- puter vision can often be reduced to the problem of match- ing two functions defined on an interval...
A limitation frequently encountered in additive manufacturing (AM) models is a lack of indication about their precision and accuracy. Often overlooked...
Felix H. Kim, Herminso Villarraga-Gomez, Shawn P. Moylan
Advances in metal additive manufacturing (AM) have made it possible to build parts with complex geometry. Metal AM has a high potential to impact various...
Michael Paul Majurski, Joe Chalfoun, Steven Lund, Peter Bajcsy, Mary C. Brady
Motivation Image features are computed in cell biology to derive quantitative information regarding cell state, differentiation, biological activity, and cell...
Minh-Son Pham, Anthony D. Rollett, Adam Abel Creuziger, Mark Iadicola, Timothy J. Foecke
Crystal plasticity constitutive equations for the multi-axial stress-strain behavior of aluminum alloy 5754 sheets have been developed. A Taylor model, a self...
Additive manufacturing (AM) allows for highly complex designs that cannot be achieved through subtractive or formative manufacturing techniques. A limiting...
Asa Trainer, Thomas D. Hedberg Jr., Allison Barnard Feeney, Kevin Fischer, Phil Rosche
Information technology advances such as big data, service-oriented architectures, and networking have triggered a digital revolution that holds promise of...
Shawn P. Ruemler, Kyle E. Zimmerman, Nathan W. Hartman, Thomas D. Hedberg Jr., Allison Barnard Feeney
The manufacturing industry is evolving and starting to use 3D models as the central knowledge artifact for product data and product definition, or what is known...
Roselyne B. Tchoua, Kyle Chard, Debra Audus, Jian Qin, Juan J. de Pablo, Ian Foster
A wealth of valuable data is locked within the millions of research articles published each year. Reading and extracting pertinent information from those...
This paper investigates the measurement of machine performance errors associated with the powder bed geometry of a commercially available laser additive...
John L. Michaloski, Frederick M. Proctor, Sid Venkatesh, Sidney Ly, Martin Manning
In order to maximize assets, manufacturers should use real-time knowledge garnered from ongoing and continuous collection and evaluation of factory-floor...
Justin L. Milner, Thomas H. Gnaeupel-Herold, Jamie D. Skovron
With an increase in fuel economy standards and the need for reducing emissions set for the automotive sector, has increased the demand for lightweight vehicles...
Jeanne Quimby, Alexandra Curtin, David R. Novotny, Chih-Ming Wang, Rick Candell
Uncertainties in the linear regression fit of Path Loss are derived from variability in position. These uncertainties are used to determine the required...
The development of digital technologies for manufacturing has been challenged by the difficulty of navigating the breadth of new technologies available to...
Qian Gong, David Content, Margaret Z. Dominguez, Thomas Emmett, Ulf Griesmann, Jeffrey Kruk, Catherine Marx, Bert Pasquale, Thomas Wallace
The slitless spectrometer plays an important role in the WFIRST mission for the survey of emission-line galaxies. This will be an unprecedented very wide field...
Cynthia Brooks, Benjamin Kidder, Michelle Grigas, Daniel Jaffe, Ulf Griesmann, Daniel Wilson, Richard Muller
We have explored a number of lithographic techniques and improvements to produce the resist lines that then define the grating groove edges of silicon immersion...
Audrey N. Tong, Craig S. Greenberg, Alvin F. Martin, Desire Banse, John M. Howard, G R. Doddington, Danilo B. Romero, Douglas A. Reynolds, Lisa Mason, Tina Kohler, Jaime Hernandez-Cordero, Elliot Singer, Alan McCree, Lisa Mason
In 2015 NIST coordinated the first language recognition evaluation (LRE) that used i-vectors as input, with the goals of attracting researchers outside of the...
Characterize three building systems Building envelope, HVAC (heating, ventilating and air-conditioning) and interior surfaces Factors likely to impact the...
We simulate the conformational structure of a coarse-grained model of dendrimer molecules in good solvent as a function of generation number G and find that...
Shahana S. Khurshid, Steven Emmerich, Andrew K. Persily
The hydroxyl radical (OH) generating capacity of particles has been measured in several outdoor locations, but it remains unquantified in indoor environments...
Deogratias Kibira, Guodong Shao, Bjoern J. Johansson
Production planning is a complex problem that is typically decomposed into decisions carried out at different control levels. Production planning methods...
Richard A. Rouil, Fernando Cintron, Aziza Ben Mosbah, Samantha Gamboa Quintiliani
In this paper, we provide an overview of the on-going implementation of a 3rd Generation Partnership Program (3GPP) Proximity Services (ProSe) module in ns-3 to...
Unsteady RANS (URANS) and Hybrid LES/RANS (specifically IDDES) simulations were conducted to numerically investigate the velocity field around, and pressures...