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Thermal performance of composite slabs with profiled steel decking exposed to fire effects

February 5, 2018

Author(s)

Jian Jiang, Joseph Main, Jonathan Weigand, Fahim H. Sadek

This paper presents detailed numerical modeling of heat transfer in composite floor slabs with profiled steel decking. The detailed modeling approach represents

Energy Renormalization to Coarse-Graining of the Dynamics of a Model Glass-Forming Liquid

February 5, 2018

Author(s)

Wenjie Xia, Jake Song, Nitin Hansoge, Frederick R. Phelan Jr., Sinan Keten, Jack F. Douglas

Soft condensed matters characteristically exhibit a strong temperature dependence of relaxation properties due to glass formation, but currently no effective

Differential degradation patterns of photovoltaic backsheets at the array level

February 4, 2018

Author(s)

Andrew W. Fairbrother, Matthew Boyd, Yadong Lyu, Julien Avenet, Peter Illich, Michael Kempe, Brian P. Dougherty, Laura Bruckman, Xiaohong Gu

Photovoltaic backsheet degradation is commonly related to end-of-life failure of a module, and as such is an important factor in system reliability and

Multicomponent gamma-prime-strengthened Co-based superalloys with increased solvus temperature and decreased density

February 3, 2018

Author(s)

Eric Lass, Daniel J. Sauza, David C. Dunand, David N. Seidman

Several Co-Al-(W)-based - alloys are investigated in an attempt to combine recent results indicating significant increases in  solvus temperature with

From Microparticles to Nanowires and Back: Radical Transformations in Plated Li Metal Morphology Revealed via in situ scanning electron microscopy

February 3, 2018

Author(s)

Alexander Yulaev, Vladimir P. Oleshko, Paul M. Haney, Jialin Liu, Yue Qi, Talin Alec, Leite Marina, Andrei A. Kolmakov

Li metal is the preferred anode material for all-solid-state Li batteries due to its high theoretical capacity and low voltage vs. standard hydrogen electrode

Molecular Sieving of Ethane from Ethylene through the Molecular Cross-Section Size Differentiation in Gallate-Based Metal-Organic Frameworks

February 3, 2018

Author(s)

Zongbi Bao, Jiawei Wang, Zhiguo Zhang, Huabin Xing, Qiwei Yang, Yiwen Yang, Hui Wu, Rajamani Krishna, Wei Zhou, Banglin Chen, Qilong Ren

MMSE-based analytical estimator for uncertain power system with limited number of measurements

February 2, 2018

Author(s)

Hamid Gharavi, Hasnae Bilil

The expected penetration of a large number of renewable distributed energy resources (DERs) is driving next generation power systems toward uncertainties that

Reverse and Random Decoy Methods for False Discovery Rate Estimation in High Mass Accuracy Peptide Spectral Library Searches

February 2, 2018

Author(s)

Zheng Zhang, Meghan C. Burke, Yuri A. Mirokhin, Dmitrii V. Tchekhovskoi, Sanford P. Markey, Wen Yu, Raghothama Chaerkady, Sonja Hess, Stephen E. Stein

Spectral library searching (SLS) is an attractive alternative to sequence database searching (SDS) for peptide identification due to its speed, sensitivity, and

Vanadium Transitions in the Spectrum of Arcturus

February 1, 2018

Author(s)

Michael P. Wood, Chris Sneden, James E. Lawler, E. A. Den Hartog, John J. Cowan, Gillian Nave

We derive a new abundance for vanadium in the bright, mildly metal-poor red giant Arcturus. This star has an excellent high-resolution spectral atlas and well

Science at Home: Measuring a Thermophysical Property of Water with a Microwave Oven

February 1, 2018

Author(s)

Zachary H. Levine

A measurement of a thermophysical property of water is made using items found in the author's home. Specifically, the ratio of the energy required to heat water

Quasi-Phase-Matched Supercontinuum Generation in Photonic Waveguides

February 1, 2018

Author(s)

Daniel D. Hickstein, Grace Kerber, David R. Carlson, Lin Chang, Daron A. Westly, Kartik A. Srinivasan, Abijith S. Kowligy, John Bowers, Scott A. Diddams, Scott B. Papp

Supercontinuum generation in on-chip waveguides is a versatile source of broadband light and the generated spectrum is determined by the phase-matching

Increasing Public Safety Broadband Network Resiliency Through Traffic Control

February 1, 2018

Author(s)

Richard A. Rouil, Wesley D. Garey, Camillo A. Gentile, Nada T. Golmie

Long Term Evolution (LTE)-based cellular networks are being deployed around the world to provide public safety with enhanced capabilities and access to

Limitations of the Different Methods for the Concentration Measurements of Human Genomic DNA and Oligonucleotide Samples

February 1, 2018

Author(s)

Hua-Jun He, Erica V. Stein, Paul C. DeRose, Kenneth D. Cole

We compared different methods to measure the concentrations of nucleic acids using samples of human genomic DNA (cell line origin), and a synthetic DNA

A Shock Tube Study of H Addition to Cyclopentene

February 1, 2018

Author(s)

Jeffrey A. Manion, Iftikhar A. Awan

The kinetics of H atom addition to cyclopentene has been studied with a single pulse shock tube at temperatures of (863 to 1167 K) and pressures of (160 to 370)

An Exploration of the Relationship between Increases in Energy Efficiency and Life-Cycle Environmental Energy and Carbon Emissions using the BIRDS Low-Energy Residential Database

February 1, 2018

Author(s)

Joshua D. Kneifel, Eric G. O'Rear, David Webb, Cheyney O'Fallon

Determination of Porosity in Anisotropic Fractal Systems by Neutron Scattering

February 1, 2018

Author(s)

Xin Gu, David F. Mildner

Small-angle scattering from two-phase isotropic systems requires the scattering invariant to determine the relative fractions of each phase in the material. For

Quantification Of Genomic DNA Damage In Lung and Nasal Epithelium and Response To Allergen Challenge

February 1, 2018

Author(s)

M Miral Dizdar, Koa Hosoki, Pawel Jaruga, Toshiko Itazawa, Erdem Coskun, Sanjiv Sur

Repair of oxidatively-induced DNA base lesions can stimulate innate and allergic airway inflammation. Specific allergenic extracts like ragweed pollen extract

High-throughput first principles search for new ferroelectrics

January 31, 2018

Author(s)

Kevin F. Garrity

We use a combination of symmetry analysis and high-throughput density functional theory calculations to search for new ferroelectric materials. We use two

MTT President's Column

January 31, 2018

Author(s)

Dylan F. Williams

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CONTIN XPCS: Program for Inverse Transform Analysis of X-Ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy Dynamics

January 31, 2018

Author(s)

Ross N. Andrews, Suresh Narayanan, Fan Zhang, Ivan Kuzmenko, Jan Ilavsky

X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy (XPCS) and dynamic light scattering (DLS) reveal dynamics by interference of coherent scattering, but X-rays permit

Inverse Transformation: Unleashing Heterogeneous Dynamics with an Alternative Approach to XPCS Data Analysis

January 31, 2018

Author(s)

Ross N. Andrews, Suresh Narayanan, Fan Zhang, Ivan Kuzmenko, Jan Ilavsky

X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy (XPCS), as an extension of dynamic light scattering (DLS) in the X-ray regime, detects temporal intensity fluctuations of

Educating Next-Gen Computer Scientists

January 31, 2018

Author(s)

Jeff Voas, D. Richard Kuhn, Celia Paulsen, Kim B. Schaffer

Just as yeast, flour, water, and salt are to bread, algorithms, data structures, operating systems, database design, compiler design, and programming languages

A Minimum Set of Common Principles for Enabling Smart City Interoperability

January 31, 2018

Author(s)

Angelo Frascela, Arianna Brutti, Nicola Gessa, Piero De Sabbata, Cristiano Novelli, Martin Burns, Vatsal Bhatt, Raffaelle Ianniello, Linghao He

The current investments for smart infrastructure development in cities result in the proliferation of self-consistent and closed applications (often called

forum Update May 31 2017

January 30, 2018

Author(s)

Carl G. Simon Jr.

Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute (ARMI) The Department of Defense has announced an award of $80M to the non-profit Advanced Regenerative

Acceleration of diffraction calculations in cylindrically symmetrical optics by use of discrete fast Fourier transforms

January 30, 2018

Author(s)

Jeremy S. Rubin, Eric L. Shirley, Zachary H. Levine

We have achieved significant acceleration of diffraction calculations in two different, though related contexts. In the first case, we consider Wolf's formula

Determining the physical properties of molecules with nanometer-scale pores

January 30, 2018

Author(s)

Haiyan Wang, Jessica Ettedgui, Jacob Fortater, Joseph W. Robertson, Joseph Reiner, Huisheng Zhang, Siping Chen, John J. Kasianowicz

Nanometer-scale pores have recently been developed for the detection, characterization, and quantitation of a wide range of analytes (e.g., ions, polymers

Direct measurement of the static and 1 transient magneto-optical permittivity of cobalt across the entire M-edge in a reflection geometry by use of polarization scanning

January 30, 2018

Author(s)

Dmitriy Zusin, Phoebe Tengdin, Maithreyi Gopalakrishnan, Christian Gentry, Adam Blonsky, Michael Gerrity, Justin Shaw, Hans Nembach, Thomas J. Silva, Peter Oppeneer, Henry C. Kapteyn, Margaret M. Murnane

The effects of isoprene and NOx on secondary organic aerosols formed through reversible and irreversible uptake to aerosol water

January 30, 2018

Author(s)

Marwa M. El-Sayed, Diana Ortiz-Montalvo, Christopher J. Hennigan

Isoprene oxidation produces water-soluble organic gases capable of partitioning to aerosol liquid water. The formation of secondary organic aerosols through

Low-temperature thermal reduction of graphene oxide: In situ correlative structural, thermal desorption and electrical transport measurements

January 30, 2018

Author(s)

Alexey Lipatov, Maxime Guinel, Dmitry S. Muratov, Vladislav O. Vanyushin, Peter Wilson, Andrei Kolmakov, Alexander Sinitskii

Elucidation of the structural transformations in graphene oxide (GO) upon reduction remains an active and important area of research. We report the results of

Dimensional Analysis on Forest Fuel Bed Fire Spread

January 29, 2018

Author(s)

Jiann C. Yang

A dimensional analysis was performed to correlate the fuel bed fire spread data previously reported in the literature. Under wind condition, six pertinent

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