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Journals

Phase Relations in Ba-(Nd,Eu,Gd)-Cu-O Coated Conductor Films

Author(s)
Winnie Wong-Ng, Igor Levin, Joseph J. Ritter, Lawrence P. Cook, Guangyao Liu, Makoto Otani, Christopher E. Lucas, Shailee P. Diwanji, Ron Feenstra, P Goyal, Mark D. Vaudin
Knowledge of phase relations in thin films of Ba2RCu3O6+x (where R=lanthanides or mixed lanthanides) is needed to guide the processing of coated conductors...

Crystallographic Data Sources

Author(s)
Vicky L. Karen
Crystallography has a long and successful history of self-organization and was one of the first areas to create numerical scientific databases. Virtually all...

Video Detection and Monitoring of Smoke Conditions

Author(s)
Thomas Cleary
Initial tests have been performed to assess detection limits and smoke obscuration monitoring for a video scene under different lighting and smoke concentration...

Modeling, Measurement, and Standards for Wafer Inspection

Author(s)
George Mulholland, Thomas A. Germer, J C. Stover
The major technical issues regarding the calibration of Surface Scanning Inspection Systems (SSIS) are presented including descriptions of the salient features...

Fire as a Building Load

Author(s)
Richard W. Bukowski
The concept of designing buildings to resist loads is fundamental to the design and regulatory process. Fire has traditionally been addressed differently...

High Throughput Methods for Rapidly Developing Additive Filled Polymers

Author(s)
Rick D. Davis, Jeffrey W. Gilman, Marc R. Nyden, John R. Shields, Richard H. Harris Jr., W Demory
The high throughput mindset has been our approach to rapidly synthesize, characterize, and analyze additive filled polymers. For example, rather than taking a...

Thermal Degradation and Flammability Properties of Nanocomposites

Author(s)
Takashi Kashiwagi, A B. Morgan, Joseph M. Antonucci, Richard H. Harris Jr., E A. Grulke, J N. Hilding, Jack F. Douglas
Thermal degradation and flammability properties of the two types of nanocomposites with nanosilica and carbon nanotubes were studied. PMMA, poly(metheyl...

Wildland-Urban Interface Fires: Overview and Research Needs

Author(s)
William E. Mell, Samuel Manzello, Alexander Maranghides, Ronald G. Rehm
Wildfires that spread into wildland-urban interface (WUI) communities present a significant challenge on a number of fronts. In the United States the WUI...

Flame Retardant Mechanism of a Polymer Clay Nanocomposite

Author(s)
Takashi Kashiwagi, John R. Shields, Richard H. Harris Jr., W H. Awad
The thermal and flammability properties of the polyamide 6/clay nanocomposites are measured to determine the flame retardant performance of the nanocomposites...
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