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The Internal Fluid Mechanics of Explosive Trace Detectors using Computational Fluid Dynamics

May 1, 2009

Author(s)

Matthew Staymates, Wayne Smith, John Gillen

Efforts are underway in the Surface and Microanalysis Science Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology to study the vapor transport...

Software Assurance Using Structured Assurance Case Models

May 1, 2009

Author(s)

Thomas R. Rhodes, Frederick E. Boland Jr., Elizabeth N. Fong, Michael J. Kass

Software assurance is an important part of the software development process to reduce risks and ensure that the software is dependable and trustworthy. Software...

Directions in Security Metrics Research

April 30, 2009

Author(s)

Wayne Jansen

More than 100 years ago, Lord Kelvin insightfully observed that measurement is vital to deep knowledge and understanding in physical science. During the last...

A Case Study of a Community Affected by the Witch and Guejito Fires (NIST TN 1635)

April 30, 2009

Author(s)

Alexander Maranghides, William E. Mell

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has a Reduced Risk of Fire Spread in Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Communities research program. The...

Super-Resolution Enhancement of Flash LADAR Range Data

April 30, 2009

Author(s)

Gavin Rosenbush, Tsai H. Hong, Roger D. Eastman

Flash LADAR systems are becoming increasingly popular for robotics applications. However, they generally provide a low-resolution range image because of the...

The System Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

April 29, 2009

Author(s)

Shirley M. Radack

This bulletin summarizes the information that was disseminated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Special Publication (SP) 800-64...

TRC Thermodynamic Tables, Hydrocarbon Supplement H-137

April 27, 2009

Author(s)

Michael D. Frenkel

1. Table 23-14-2-(33.23500)-d: Pages d-8948.0 and d-8948.1 New table for cyclohexyl phenyl sulfides containing density for the condensed phase at one bar, or at...

Economic Analysis of Egress and Life Safety Costs

April 27, 2009

Author(s)

Robert E. Chapman, Allison L. Huang, David T. Butry

In 2007, the latest year for which construction data are available, the value of construction put in place was $1.1 trillion. Statistics on the total cost of...

New International Formulation for the Viscosity of H2O

April 21, 2009

Author(s)

Marcia L. Huber, Richard A. Perkins, Arno R. Laesecke, Daniel G. Friend, Jan V. Sengers, Marc J. Assael, Ifigenia N. Metaxa, Eckhard Vogel, Radim Mares, Kiyoshi Miyagawa

The International Association for the Properties of Water and Steam (IAPWS) encouraged an extensive research effort to update the IAPS Formulation 1985 for the...

Markov Chain Analysis for Large-Scale Grid Systems

April 20, 2009

Author(s)

Christopher E. Dabrowski, Fern Y. Hunt

In large-scale grid systems with decentralized control, the interactions of many service providers and consumers will likely lead to emergent global system...

Research Required to Support Full Implementation of Performance-Based Seismic Design

April 15, 2009

Author(s)

William Holmes, Andre Filiatrault, John Hooper, Nicolas Luco, Jack Moehle, Maryann Phipps

To encourage further development of PBSD, FEMA commissioned several action plans that included work plans and budgets, and these efforts culminated in 2002 when...

Biometric Quality The last 1% - Biometric quality assessment for error suppression

April 6, 2009

Author(s)

Elham Tabassi, Patrick J. Grother

Performance of biometric recognition systems degrades substantially as quality of the input samples drops. Although only a small fraction of input data are of...

An Evaluation of Automated Latent Fingerprint Identification Technology (Phase II)

April 2, 2009

Author(s)

Michael D. Indovina, Vladimir N. Dvornychenko, Elham Tabassi, George W. Quinn, Patrick J. Grother, Stephen Meagher, Michael D. Garris

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), with the cooperation of eight technology providers, performed a test of accuracy for searching latent...

An Independent Measurement System for Testing Automotive Crash Warning Systems

April 2, 2009

Author(s)

Sandor S. Szabo, Joseph A. Falco, Richard J. Norcross

This report describes the National Institute of Standards and Technology's role in the Integrated Vehicle-Based Safety Systems (IVBSS) program, a four-year...

CFAST: Consolidated Model of Fire Growth and Smoke Transport (Version 6). Technical Reference Guide.

April 1, 2009

Author(s)

Walter W. Jones, Richard D. Peacock, Glenn P. Forney, Paul A. Reneke

CFAST is a two-zone fire model used to calculate the evolving distribution of smoke, fire gases and temperature throughout compartments of a constructed...

Thermal Performance of Fire Resistive Materials III. Fire Test on a Bare Steel Column

April 1, 2009

Author(s)

Dale P. Bentz, Leonard M. Hanssen, Boris Wilthan

This report is part III in an ongoing series concerning the characterization and modeling of the thermal performance of fire resistive materials (FRMs). In part...

Fire-Front Propagation Using the Level Set Method

April 1, 2009

Author(s)

Ronald G. Rehm, Randall J. McDermott

Propagation of an outdoor fire front in wildland or in a combination of wildland and structural fuels (the so-called wildland-urban interface or WUI fire), can...

Research Required to Support Full Implementation of Performance-Based Seismic Design

April 1, 2009

Author(s)

William T. Holmes, Claret Heider

The performance of modern buildings with respect to protecting life safety in recent earthquakes (e.g., 1989 Loma Prieta, 1994 Northridge, and 2001 Nisqually)...

Fire Fighting Tactics Under Wind Driven Fire Conditions: 7-Story Building Experiments.

April 1, 2009

Author(s)

Daniel M. Madrzykowski, Stephen Kerber

A series of 14 experiments was conducted in 7-story building to evaluate the ability of positive pressure ventilation fans, wind control devices and floor below...

Evaluation of Oral Fluid Testing Devices

April 1, 2009

Author(s)

Lorna T. Sniegoski, Jocelyn L. Prendergast, Michael J. Welch, Alim A. Fatah, M Gackstetter, R. Q. Thompson

Several point-of-collection (POC) devices for detection of drugs of abuse in oral fluid were studied. The ability of the devices to meet the manufacturers'...

PIV Card Application and Middleware Interface Test Guidelines (SP800-73-2 compliance)

March 31, 2009

Author(s)

Ramaswamy Chandramouli, Hildegard Ferraiolo, Ketan L. Mehta

[Superseded by SP 800-85A-2 (July 2010): http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=906167] The objective of this document [SP 800-85A-1] is...

Mass Notification Messages: Workshop Proceedings

March 30, 2009

Author(s)

Erica D. Kuligowski, Richard D. Peacock, Jason D. Averill, Richard W. Bukowski

This workshop provided a forum to discuss research and best practices regarding mass notification message creation and dissemination. The goal of the workshop...

EEEL Technical Accomplishments

March 30, 2009

Author(s)

Erik M. Secula

This document describes the technical work of the Electronics and Electrical Engineering Laboratory. In this report, you will find that EEEL researchers are...

The Cryptographic Hash Algorithm Family: Revision of the Secure Hash Standard and Ongoing Competition for New Hash Algorithms

March 25, 2009

Author(s)

Shirley M. Radack

This bulletin summarizes information disseminated in Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 180-3, Secure Hash Standard; NIST Special Publication (SP)...

A History of Fire Testing.

March 20, 2009

Author(s)

James R. Lawson

This paper discusses the breakthroughs in science and engineering that have brought fire testing technology to its current state of maturity and provides...

Computer Security Division 2008 Annual Report

March 16, 2009

Author(s)

Patrick D. O'Reilly

This annual report covers the work conducted within the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Computer Security Division during Fiscal Year 2008. It...

Determination of Montmorillonite Nanocomposite Aggregation Rates Using Real Time X-Ray Diffraction Techniques at High Temperatures NIST GCR 09-924

March 12, 2009

Author(s)

Holly Stretz

The current work explored how choice of surfactant, fire temperature and processing pressure affect the assembly process for particles in the barrier layer. The...

NIST Technical Note No. 1621: Optical radiation measurements based on detector standards

March 11, 2009

Author(s)

George P. Eppeldauer

Improved detector technology in the past two decades opened a new era in the field of optical radiation measurements. Lower calibration and measurement...

Analysis of Ventilation Data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Building Assessment Survey and Evaluation (BASE) Study

March 10, 2009

Author(s)

Andrew K. Persily, J Gorfain

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Building Assessment Survey and Evaluation (BASE) study included a range of measurements in 100 randomly selected...

Kinetics and Mechanisms of Elementary Reactive Processes in Polymer Pyrolysis. NIST GCR 09-923

March 9, 2009

Author(s)

Vadim D. Knyazev

Polymer backbone scission reactions were studied computationally using polyethylene macromolecules as prototypes. Classical RRKM modeling, molecular dynamics...

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