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NIST Pubs

A Review of Risk Perception in Building Fire Evacuation

Author(s)
Max Kinateder, Erica D. Kuligowski, Paul Reneke, Richard D. Peacock
Risk perception (RP) is studied in many research disciplines (e.g., safety engineering, psychology, and sociology), and the context in which RP is studied...

Guidelines for Smart Grid Cybersecurity

Author(s)
Victoria Y. Pillitteri, Tanya L. Brewer
This three-volume report, Guidelines for Smart Grid Cybersecurity, presents an analytical framework that organizations can use to develop effective...

Movement on Stairs During Building Evacuations

Author(s)
Erica D. Kuligowski, Richard D. Peacock, Paul Reneke, Emily A. Wiess, Jason 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 O'Reilly, Greg 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 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...
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