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Seismic design of steel special moment frames::a guide for practicing engineers

June 1, 2009

Author(s)

Ronald O Hamburger, Helmut Krawinkler, James O Malley, Scott M Adan

Development and Demonstration of a Method to Evaluate Bio-Sampling Strategies using Building Simulation and Sample Planning Software

June 1, 2009

Author(s)

William S. Dols, Jayne B. Morrow, Andrew K. Persily, Brett Matzke, Landon Sego, Lisa Nuffer, Brent Pulsipher

In an effort to validate and demonstrate response and recovery sampling approaches and technologies, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), along with...

Measurement Challenges to Innovation in the Biosciences: Critical Roles for NIST

June 1, 2009

Author(s)

Willie E. May, Michael D. Amos, Joan Pellegrino

Energy Price Indices and Discount Factors for Life-Cycle Cost Analysis 2009

May 31, 2009

Author(s)

Amy S. Rushing, Barbara C. Lippiatt

This is the 2009 edition of energy price indices and discount factors for performing life-cycle cost analyses of energy and water conservation and renewable...

Proceedings of the Dynamic Measurement and Control for Autonomous Manufacturing Workshop

May 29, 2009

Author(s)

Tsai H. Hong, Roger D. Eastman, Roger V. Bostelman, Hui-Min Huang, B. McMorris

The Dynamic Measurement workshop was held on October 10 - 11, 2007 at the Columbia Graduate Center of Loyola College in Maryland. Forty-eight people attended...

High Speed Quantum Key Distribution over Optical Fiber Network System

May 28, 2009

Author(s)

Xiao Tang, Lijun Ma, Alan Mink

NIST has developed a number of complete fiber-based high-speed quantum key distribution QKD)systems that includes an 850 nm QKD system for a local area network...

The Process of Human Behavior in Fires

May 15, 2009

Author(s)

Erica D. Kuligowski

Evacuation models, including engineering hand calculations and computational tools, are used to evaluate the level of safety provided by buildings during...

Report of Findings: Use of Language in Ballot Instructions

May 6, 2009

Author(s)

Janice G. Redish, Dana Chisnell, Ethan Newby, Sharon J. Laskowski, Svetlana Z. Lowry

In this study, we compared two ballots that differed only in wording and presentation of the language on the ballots. For Ballot A, we used conventional wording...

OntoSTEP: OWL-DL Ontology for STEP

May 4, 2009

Author(s)

Sylvere Krima, Raphael Barbau, Xenia Fiorentini, Sudarsan Rachuri, Ram D. Sriram

The Standard for the Exchange of Product model data (STEP) [1] contains product information mainly related to geometry. The modeling language used to develop...

Calibration of Speed Enforcement Down-the-Road Radars

May 1, 2009

Author(s)

John R. Jendzurski, Nicholas G. Paulter Jr.

We examine the measurement uncertainty associated with different methods of calibrating the ubiquitous down-the-road (DTR) radar used in speed enforcement...

Method for the characterization of extreme-ultraviolet photoresist outgassing

May 1, 2009

Author(s)

Charles S. Tarrio

Outgassing from photoresists illuminated by extreme ultraviolet radiation can lead to degradation of the very expensive multilayer- coated optics in an extreme...

CYCLE D: NIST Vapor Compression Cycle Design Program. Version 4.0. Users' Guide (NIST NSRDS 49)

May 1, 2009

Author(s)

J S. Brown, Piotr A. Domanski, Eric Lemmon

The CYCLE_D package simulates vapor compression refrigeration cycles that use pure refrigerants or mixtures of refrigerants. The model can simulate a basic...

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...

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...

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...

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)...

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