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Contaminant Accumulation and Removal in Building Plumbing Systems

Author(s)
Stephen J. Treado, Mark A. Kedzierski, Daniel R. Flynn, David Wilmering, Thomas D. Montgomery, Kenneth D. Cole
This report summarizes measurements and results conducted to evaluate the accumulation and removal of water-borne contaminants in building plumbing systems. In...

Using the BACnet Communications DLL v1.0

Author(s)
Michael A. Galler
The BACnet standard [1] defines a communication protocol for information exchange between components of a distributed building automation and control system...

Building Air Change Rate Estimates for CBR Analysis

Author(s)
Andrew K. Persily
Building air change rates impact energy consumption for space conditioning and indoor contaminant levels in relation to general indoor air quality issues as...

Assessing Face Acquisition

Author(s)
Mary F. Theofanos, Brian C. Stanton, Charles L. Sheppard, Ross J. Micheals, John M. Libert, Shahram Orandi
The requirements necessary for taking a successful face picture are arguably the least constrained of any biometric. The camera must be operational, and the...

High power laser calibrations at NIST

Author(s)
Xiaoyu X. Li, Joshua A. Hadler, Christopher L. Cromer, John H. Lehman, Marla L. Dowell
This document describes the calibration service for the responsivity of laser power meters and detectors used with continuous wave high power lasers at laser...

Charpy Machine Verification: Limits and Uncertainty

Author(s)
Jolene Splett, Christopher N. McCowan, Chih-Ming Wang
The purpose of this document is to clarify some issues pertaining to uncertainty statements and the ASTM E 23 limits used in the Charpy machine verification...

Calibration of a Force Feedback Joystick

Author(s)
J H. Daruwalla, Nicholas Dagalakis
The objective of this project was to calibrate a commercially available force feedback joystick that could be used for the control of a laser beam optical...

Forensic Filtering of Cell Phone Protocols

Author(s)
Aurelien M. Delaitre, Wayne Jansen
Phone managers are non-forensic software tools designed to carry out a range of tasks for the user, such as reading and updating the contents of a phone, using...

Style Guide for Voting System Documentation

Author(s)
Dana E. Chisnell, Susan C. Becker, Sharon J. Laskowski, Svetlana Z. Lowry
The goal of this style guide is to provide specific guidance to improve the usability of documentation used by poll workers and election support staff. The...

Residential Structure Separation Fire Experiments

Author(s)
Alexander Maranghides, Erik L. Johnsson
Building codes often allow structures with window openings and combustible exteriors to be built with as little as 1.8 m (6 ft) of separation between them. In a...

A Collection of Homes to Represent the U.S. Housing Stock

Author(s)
Andrew K. Persily, Amy Musser, Dennis D. Leber
In order to allow nationwide analysis of ventilation and indoor air quality issues in residential buildings, a set of homes has been defined to represent the...

Natural Gas Flow Calibration Service

Author(s)
Aaron Johnson
This document describes NIST's high pressure natural gas flow calibration service (NGFCS). Flow calibrations are conducted offsite at the Colorado Experimental...

Structural Fire Response and Probable Collapse Sequence of World Trade Center Building 7 (Volume 1). Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World Trade Center Disaster (NIST NCSTAR 1-9) ***DRAFT for Public Comments***

Author(s)
Therese P. McAllister, Richard G. Gann, Jason D. Averill, John L. Gross, William L. Grosshandler, James R. Lawson, Kevin B. McGrattan, William M. Pitts, Kuldeep R. Prasad, Fahim Sadek, Harold E. Nelson
This is the primary technical report on the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) investigation of the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7...

Structural Fire Response and Probable Collapse Sequence of World Trade Center Building 7 (Volume 2). Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World Trade Center Disaster (NIST NCSTAR 1-9) ***DRAFT for Public Comments***

Author(s)
Therese P. McAllister, Richard G. Gann, Jason D. Averill, John L. Gross, William L. Grosshandler, James R. Lawson, Kevin B. McGrattan, William M. Pitts, Kuldeep R. Prasad, Fahim Sadek, Harold E. Nelson
This is the primary technical report on the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) investigation of the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7...
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