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There is a growing awareness of the benefits that could accrue from improving the technologies used by the Nation s $995 billion/year building and construction...
Brancusi s Endless Column (T rgu-Jiu, Romania) is an interesting case study in bluff body aeroelasticity. It has been referred to as aeroelastically indifferent...
A rigorous procedure that calculates wind-induced effects on tall buildings is presented. The method, an extension of Database-Assisted Design (DAD), uses sets...
Modeling of the separation of spherical particles in field-flow fractionation under conditions spanning the normal to steric transition is studied and is...
A preceding study of the competition between fracture modes in monolithic brittle materials in cyclic loading with curved indenters in liquid environments is...
Recent advances in instrumentation for Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS) have focused on the application of polyatomic primary ions for enhancing molecular...
Measurements and calculations of beam attenuation and background scattering for common materials placed in a neutron beam are presented over the temperature...
Mechanisms of energy dissipation during solid-solid and solid-liquid friction are discussed. A conservative van der Waals adhesion force, when combined with...
Gravity can affect the physical vapor growth of mercuric iodide in two distinct ways. First, gravity will induce convection during growth, which strongly mixes...
A round-robin to measure the thermal conductivity (k) of SIQ^2^ thin films has taken place under the Versailles Project on Advanced Materials and Standards...
Ivar E. Reimanis, C Seick, K Fitzpatrick, Lin-Sien H. Lum, S Landin
Polycrystalline ceramic composites, comprised of primarily b-eucryptite (LiAlSiO4) and lithium aluminate (LiAl5O8) crystals, with a near-zero coefficient of...
Igor Levin, M Stennett, D I. Woodward, A R. West, I Reaney
Strong coupling between local polar displacements and a commensurate octahedral tilting is proposed to explain the onset of classic ferroelectric behavior in...
Adhesion force has a significant effect upon the contact of rough surfaces with nanoscale asperities. The dominant component of the adhesion force is the...
It is generally believed that liquid phase sintering of silicon nitride invariably results in a continuous intergranular phase such that individual grains are...
Joseph Woicik, E J. Nelson, L Kronik, M Jain, J R. Chelikowsky, D Heskett, L E. Berman, G S. Herman
X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) has emerged as a premier method by which to study the chemical bonding in solids. Owing to the conservation of energy...
This volume is the thirteenth of the topically-oriented series of phase diagram compilations and the eighth to appear since the National Institute of Standards...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST, Gaithersburg, MD) and The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL, Washington, DC) jointly hosted a workshop...
This paper attempts to describe the importance of standards in helping to bring new materials to the market place. Using ceramic materials as an example, the...
The preparation, modeled and refined crystal structures, and structure-dielectric property relationships of five Ba3MM 2O9 (M = Mg, Ni, Zn; M = Nb, Ta)...
The authors and chemical systems indexed in the 2003 Cumulative Index refer the user to all phase diagrams published in the Phase Equilibria Diagrams series up...
Lawrence P. Cook, Richard E. Cavicchi, Yanbao Zhang, Mark D. Vaudin, Christopher B. Montgomery, William F. Egelhoff Jr., Martin L. Green, Leslie Allen
A MEMS-based differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) has been used to characterize the Ni/Si interfacial reaction in thin films at ramp rates of 940 C/s and...
Igor Levin, Albert Davydov, O M. Kryliouk, Hyun Jong Park, YongSun Won, T J. Anderson, J P. Kim, J A. Freitas
Single-crystalline InN nanorods were successfully grown on c-Al203, GaN, and Si substrates by non catalytic, template-free hydride metal-organic vapor phase...
A front-tracking finite element method is used to compute the evolution of a crack-like defect that propagates along a bi-material interface by stress driven...
Adhesion plays a significant role in Nanoscale interfacial friction for basically non-adhesive surfaces (no chemical bonding). The adhesion forces are composed...
Wear tests were conducted using a pin-on-disk tribometer to evaluate the effect of disk track diameter on the tribological behavior. High purity alumina balls...
Joseph Woicik, E J. Nelson, L Kronik, M Jain, J R. Chelikowsky, D Heskett, L E. Berman, G S. Herman
Using the method of site-specific valence x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (SSVKPS), we have experimentally determined the Ti and O partial density of occupied...