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Journals

Verification and Validation--How to Determine the Accuracy of Fire Models.

Author(s)
Mark H. Salley, Jason Dreisbach, Kendra Hill, Bijan Najafi, Francisco Joglar, Anthony Hamins, Kevin B. McGrattan, Richard Peacock, Robert Kassawara
Both domestically and worldwide, there is a movement to introduce risk-informed and performance-based analyses into fire protection engineering practice. One...

Multiscale Model of Germanium Quantum Dots in Silicon

Author(s)
David T. Read, Vinod Tewary
Atomic displacements, strains and strain energies in the neighborhood of near-spherical, coherent germanium ¿quantum dots¿ (QD) in crystalline silicon and near...

3-D Motion Estimation Using Range Data

Author(s)
Hamid Gharavi, Shaoshuai Gao
Advanced vehicle-based safety and warning systems use laser scanners to measure road geometry (position, curvature), and range to obstacles in order to warn a...

Length Fractionation of Carbon Nanotube Using Centrifugation

Author(s)
Jeffrey A. Fagan, Matthew Becker, Jae H. Chun, Erik K. Hobbie
A recent article by Arnold et al. (Nature Nanotech., 1, 60-65, 2006)1 demonstrated the use of ultracentrifugation on single wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) within...

SRM Spotlight (February 2007)

Author(s)
Regina R. Montgomery
The SRM Spotlight is a newsletter published by the Measurement Services Division for users of NIST standard reference materials. The Spotlight announces new...

Firebrand Generation From Burning Vegetation

Author(s)
Samuel L. Manzello, Alexander Maranghides, William E. Mell
A series of real scale fire experiments were performed to determine the size and mass distribution of firebrands generated from Douglas-Fir (pseudotsuga...

Precision Atomic Spectroscopy for Improved Limits on Variation of the Fine Structure Constant and Local Position Invariance

Author(s)
Tara M. Fortier, Jason Stalnaker, Scott A. Diddams, Neil Ashby, Luca Lorini, Windell Oskay, Marie Delaney, James C. Bergquist, Steven R. Jefferts, Thomas E. Parker, Thomas P. Heavner, Filippo Levi, Jon H. Shirley, Wayne M. Itano, Kyoungsik Kim, Leo W. Hollberg
We report tests of local position invariance (LPI) and the constancy of fundamental constants from measurements of the frequency ratio of the 282-nm $^{199}$Hg$...
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