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Zhan-Qian John Lu, Charles Fenimore, Nicholas Petrick, Rongping Zeng, Marios A. Gavrielides, David Clunie, Kristin Borradaile, Robert Ford, Hyun J. Grace Kim, Michael F. McNitt-Gray, Binsheng Zhao, Andrew J. Buckler
The energy levels and observed spectral lines of neutral and singly ionized chromium atoms have been compiled. Tables of energy levels and spectral lines are...
A feasibility study was performed to evaluate a novel method of accurately fatigue cracking steel plates to generate fatigue proposed fatigue crack reference...
This handbook compiles uniform laws and regulations developed by the Committee on Laws and Regulatiosn of the National Conference of Weights and Measures (NCWM)...
This handbook has been prepared as a procedural guide for the compliance testing of net contents statements on packaged goods. Compliance testing of packaged...
Combinatorial testing applies factor covering arrays to test all t-way combinations of input or configuration state space. In some testing situations, it is not...
Computer-interpretable representations of system structure and behavior are at the center of designing todays complex systems. Engineers create and review such...
This report documents the development of finite-element models (FEM) of the National Fire Research Laboratory (NFRL) and its modular support structure. The...
This report summarizes the characterization of the furnace thermal environment and thermal behavior of members during the fire tests. Additionally, numerical...
Marc J. Assael, E.K. Mihailidou, Marcia L. Huber, Richard A. Perkins
This paper contains new, representative reference equations for the thermal conductivity of benzene. The equations are based in part upon a body of experimental...
This bulletin summarizes the information presented in NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-30 Rev.1, Guide to Conducting Risk Assessments. This publication was...
Jin Chu Wu, Alvin F. Martin, Craig S. Greenberg, Raghu N. Kacker, Vincent M. Stanford
To evaluate the performance of speaker recognition systems, a detection cost function defined as a weighted sum of the probabilities of type I and type II...
Jon M. Boyens, Celia Paulsen, Nadya Bartol, Rama Moorthy, Stephanie Shankles
This publication is intended to provide a wide array of practices that, when implemented, will help mitigate supply chain risk to federal information systems...
This report details analyses in the development of certain correction factors for free-air ionization chambers used by the National Institute of Standards and...
Ronald Hamburger, Patricio Bonelli, Rene Lagos, Loring Wyllie Jr.
This work is part of a series of investigations into the performance of engineered construction during the February 27, 2010, Maule earthquake in Chile. It is...
This paper presents a procedure for estimating parametric probabilistic models of hurricane wind speeds from existing information on estimated wind speeds with...
William M. Pitts, Jiann C. Yang, Marco G. Fernandez, Kuldeep R. Prasad
The dispersion and loss of helium inside a single-car residential garage attached to a single-family house was experimentally characterized by recording time...
Therese P. McAllister, William E. Luecke, Mark A. Iadicola, Matthew F. Bundy
For the last forty years, NIST has led the world in fire metrology through research conducted at the Large Fire Laboratory, which is being expanded to enable...
Samuel L. Manzello, Sayaka S. Suzuki, Tokiyoshi Yamada
Dr. Samuel L. Manzello of NISTs Engineering Laboratory (EL) served as the USA side organizer of the 2nd Japan-USA workshop held in Tokyo, Japan from July 1 to...
David R. Lide, Richard D. Suenram, Donald R. Johnson, Francis J. Lovas
This paper describes the beginning and evolution of microwave rotational spectroscopic research starting in 1954 at the National Bureau of Standards (NBS)...