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High-temperature tensile constitutive data and models for structural steels in fire

November 30, 2011

Author(s)

William Luecke, Stephen W. Banovic, Joseph D. McColskey

This report documents the stress-strain behavior of a collection of structural steels recovered from the collapse of the World Trade Center. These steels...

Fire Exposures of Fire Fighter Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus Facepiece Lenses

November 29, 2011

Author(s)

Amy E. Mensch, George G. Cajaty Barbosa Braga, Nelson P. Bryner

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), conducted experiments which demonstrated a range of realistic thermal exposures and environmental...

Recommendation for Key Derivation through Extraction-then-Expansion

November 28, 2011

Author(s)

Lidong Chen

This Recommendation specifies techniques for the derivation of keying material from a shared secret established during a key establishment scheme defined in...

Certified Transmittance Density Uncertainties for Standard Reference Materials using a Transfer Spectrophotometer

November 28, 2011

Author(s)

John C. Travis, Melody V. Smith, Steven J. Choquette, Hung-Kung Liu

Overall uncertainties are evaluated for the certification of transmittance density (absorbance referred to air) and regular spectral transmittance for solid...

NIST Handbook 150-31, NVLAP Healthcare Information Technology Testing

November 28, 2011

Author(s)

Dana S. Leaman, Lawrence I. Knab

NIST Handbook 150-31 presents the technical requirements and guidance for the accreditation of laboratories under the National Voluntary Laboratory...

Test Results Prepared for Honeywell:Flammability of Refrigerants in the Japanese High Pressure Gas Law Test

November 22, 2011

Author(s)

Gregory T. Linteris, John L. Pagliaro, Peter B. Sunderland

The goal of the work was to determine the flammability of R1234ze(E) (C3H2F4) per the Japanese High Pressure Gas Law (see Appendix I). Tests were also performed...

Prototype Commercial Buildings for Energy and Sustainability Assessment: Whole Building Energy Simulation Design

November 22, 2011

Author(s)

Joshua D. Kneifel

Guidelines for Predicting the Capacity and Demand of Steel Bean-Columns Under Fires: Part 1, Perimeter Columns.

November 22, 2011

Author(s)

Maria E. Garlock, Spencer E. Quiel, Ignacio Paya-Zaforteza

Reports by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (Gann 2005), the UK-based Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE) (Roberts 2002), and a...

Wildfire Modeling.

November 22, 2011

Author(s)

Steven K. Krueger

This report documents the development and testing of the LES (Large Eddy Simulator) version of the WRF (Weather Research and Forecasting) model coupled with...

Ignition Propensity of Hydrogen in the Presence of Metal Surfaces.

November 22, 2011

Author(s)

Chih-Jen Sung, James S. T'ien, Kyle Brady

Hydrogen as an energy carrier has received much attention in recent years as a result of a confluence of economic, environmental, and political pressures on the...

Guidelines for Fire Design of Steel Beam-Columns: Part II, Beams.

November 22, 2011

Author(s)

M. M. Dwaikat, V. K. Kodur

Steel structures when exposed to fire develop significant fire induced forces and deformations, and these effects are to be properly accounted for in evaluating...

Determining the Optimal Spatial Location of Shade Trees for Energy Savings: A Case Study Approach

November 22, 2011

Author(s)

Joshua D. Kneifel, David T. Butry

Tracking the National Fire Problem: The Data behind the Statistics

November 21, 2011

Author(s)

Douglas S. Thomas, David T. Butry

The objective of this report is to support the development of descriptive statistics and associated measures of uncertainty for characterizing, tracking, and...

US Government Cloud Computing Technology Roadmap Volume I Release 1.0 (Draft) High - Priority Requirements to Further USG Agency Cloud Computing Adoption

November 20, 2011

Author(s)

Mark L. Badger, David Bernstein, Robert B. Bohn, Frederic J. de Vaulx, Michael D. Hogan, Jin Mao, John V. Messina, Kevin L. Mills, Annie W. Sokol, Dawn M. Leaf, Fred Whiteside, Jin Tong

XML Validation Website: A User's Guide

November 16, 2011

Author(s)

Julien C. Cuvillier, Katherine C. Morris

This report describes the XML Validation website which hosts a number of XML parsing tools that can be used to remotely validate XML schema files against the...

Selecting and Scaling Earthquake Ground Motions for Performing Response-History Analyses

November 15, 2011

Author(s)

Andrew Whittaker, Gail Atkinson, Jack Baker, Jonathan Bray, Damian Grant, Ronald Hamburger, Curt Haselton, Paul Somerville

The primary objective of this task was to develop guidance for selecting, generating, and scaling earthquake ground motions for effective use in performing...

Overview of the TREC 2011 Web Track

November 15, 2011

Author(s)

Ian M. Soboroff, Nick Craswell, Charles L. Clarke, Gordon Cormack

The TREC Web Track explores and evaluates Web retrieval technology over large collections of Web data. In its current incarnation, the Web Track has been active...

Representation of functional networks in STEP AP210 with application to SPICE circuit simulation

November 11, 2011

Author(s)

Jamie Stori

STEP AP210 (ISO 10303-210) supports a comprehensive functional network model representation. SPICE (Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis) is a...

Ocular and Iris Recognition Baseline Algorithm

November 7, 2011

Author(s)

Yooyoung Lee, Ross J. Micheals, James J. Filliben, P J. Phillips, Hassan A. Sahibzada

Due to its distinctiveness, the human eye is a popular biometricv feature used to identity a person with high accuracy. The Grand Challenge in biometrics is to...

Data Dependency on Measurement Uncertainties in Speaker Recognition Evaluation

November 3, 2011

Author(s)

Jin Chu Wu, Alvin F. Martin, Craig S. Greenberg, Raghu N. Kacker

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been conducting an ongoing series of Speaker Recognition Evaluations (SRE). Speaker detection...

Interlaboratory Analytical Comparison Study to Support Deepwater Horizon Natural Resource Damage Assessment: Description and Results for Marine Sediment QA10SED01

November 2, 2011

Author(s)

Michele M. Schantz, John Kucklick

To support natural resource damage assessment (NRDA) in response to the Deep Water Horizon (DWH) oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a large number of coastal...

Interlaboratory Analytical Comparison Study to Support Deepwater Horizon Natural Resource Damage Assessment: Description and Results for Mussel Tissue QA10TIS01

November 2, 2011

Author(s)

Michele M. Schantz, John R. Kucklick

To support natural resource damage assessment (NRDA) in response to the Deep Water Horizon (DWH) oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a large number of coastal...

Interlaboratory Analytical Comparison Study to Support Deepwater Horizon Natural Resource Damage Assessment: Description and Results for Crude Oil QA10OIL01

November 2, 2011

Author(s)

Michele M. Schantz, John R. Kucklick

To support natural resource damage assessment (NRDA) in response to the Deep Water Horizon (DWH) oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a large number of coastal...

Findings and Recommendations from the Joint NIST - AGA Workshop on Odor Masking

November 1, 2011

Author(s)

Thomas J. Bruno, Nancy Rawson, Ali Quaraishi

Since the days of the alchemist, the observation that some substances have a smell while other substances do not has been a source of fascination. The sense of...

Guidelines for Predicting the Capacity and Demand of Steel Beam-Columns Under Fire: Part 1, Perimeter Columns.

November 1, 2011

Author(s)

Maria E. Garlock, Spencer E. Quiel, Ignacio Paya-Zaforteza

Reports by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (Gann 2005), the UKbased Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE) (Roberts 2002), and a...

Home Cooking Fire Mitigation: Technology Assessment. Final Report.

November 1, 2011

Author(s)

Joshua Dinaburg, Daniel T. Guttuk

Cooking related fires are a leading cause of U.S. fire loss. Beginning in the mid 1980's, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Consumer Product...

Moments of the Truncated Complex Gaussian Distribution

November 1, 2011

Author(s)

Ryan J. Pirkl

We present arbitrary moments of the univariate and bivariate truncated complex Gaussian distribution. Using these moment expressions, we investigate the...

Integrating jQuery with the 3D Descriptive Markup of X3DOM

October 31, 2011

Author(s)

Sanford P. Ressler

This paper describes a number of techniques using jQuery to take advantage of the 3D descriptive markup implemented by X3DOM. X3DOM is a project of the Web3D...

Report on the Third Static Analysis Tool Exposition (SATE 2010)

October 27, 2011

Author(s)

Vadim Okun, Paul E. Black, Aurelien M. Delaitre

The NIST Software Assurance Metrics And Tool Evaluation (SAMATE) project conducted the third Static Analysis Tool Exposition (SATE) in 2010 to advance research...

On-Chip Security Using Electromagnetic Analysis

October 27, 2011

Author(s)

James Schaffner, Dylan Williams

In this report we describe a test bed designed to assess the vulnerabilities of security microcontrollers to electromagnetic monitoring, and use the test bed to...

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