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Movement on Stairs During Building Evacuations

Author(s)
Erica D. Kuligowski, Richard Peacock, Paul A. Reneke, Emily A. Wiess, Jason D. Averill, Robert Hagwood, Enrico Ronchi, Bryan Hoskins, Michael Spearpoint
The time that it takes an occupant population to reach safety when descending a stairwell during building evacuations is typically described by measureable

White Paper on Fire Resistance of Timber Structures

Author(s)
Andrew Buchanan, Birgit SP Wood Technology, Sweden �tman, Andrea Frangi
Fire resistance of timber structures is a very large field. In order to keep this document relatively small, the scope of is limited as follows: • This report

White Paper on Fire Behavior of Steel Structures

Author(s)
Maria Garlock, Jo? Kruppa, Guo-Qiang Li, Li, Bin Zhao
This white paper presents the state-of-the-art of large-scale experiments, modeling, and performance- based design efforts in fire behavior of steel structures

White Paper on Fire Resistance of Concrete Structures

Author(s)
Luke Bisby, Hossein Mostafaei, Pierre Pimienta
This white paper presents the current, international, state-of-the-art large-scale experimental, modeling, and performance-based design (PBD) efforts related to

Characterization of Metal Powders Used for Additive Manufacturing

Author(s)
John A. Slotwinski, Edward J. Garboczi, Paul E. Stutzman, Chiara F. Ferraris, Stephanie S. Watson, Max A. Peltz
Additive manufacturing (AM) techniques can produce complex, high-value metal parts, with potential applications as critical parts such as those found in

Computer Security Division 2013 Annual Report

Author(s)
Patrick D. O'Reilly, Gregory A. Witte, Chris Johnson, Doug Rike
Title III of the E-Government Act of 2002, entitled the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) of 2002, requires NIST to prepare an annual public

BIOS Protection Guidelines for Servers

Author(s)
Andrew R. Regenscheid
Modern computers rely on fundamental system firmware, commonly known as the Basic Input/Output System (BIOS), to facilitate the hardware initialization process

July is National Ice Cream Month

Author(s)
Elizabeth J. Benham
A short article about ice cream and frozen novelties to appear in the Office of Weights and Measures newsletter, "Weights and Measures Connection." This

A review of NIST primary activity standards for 18F: 1982 to 2013

Author(s)
Denis E. Bergeron, Jeffrey T. Cessna, Bert M. Coursey, Ryan P. Fitzgerald, Brian E. Zimmerman
The new NIST activity standardization for 18F differs from results obtained between 1998 and 2008 by 4 %. The new results are considered to be very reliable

Smart Firefighting Workshop Summary Report

Author(s)
Anthony P. Hamins, Nelson P. Bryner, Albert W. Jones, Galen H. Koepke, casey grant, Anand Raghunathan
This report summarizes the results of the Smart Firefighting Workshop held March 24 and 25, 2014, in Arlington, Virginia and sponsored by the National Institute
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