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Experiments and Modeling of Structural Steel Elements Exposed to Fire (Appendices D-G). Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World Trade Center Disaster (NIST NCSTAR 1-5B)

Author(s)
Anthony P. Hamins, Alexander Maranghides, Kevin B. McGrattan, Erik L. Johnsson, Thomas J. Ohlemiller, Michelle K. Donnelly, Jiann C. Yang, George W. Mulholland, Kuldeep R. Prasad, S R. Kukuck, Robert Anleitner, Therese P. McAllister
Reconstructing the fires and their impact on structural components in the World Trade Center (WTC) buildings on September 11, 2001, requires extensive use of

Reconstruction of the Fires in the World Trade Center Towers. Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World Trade Center Disaster (NIST NCSTAR 1-5) ***DRAFT for Public Comments***

Author(s)
Richard G. Gann, Anthony P. Hamins, Kevin B. McGrattan, George W. Mulholland, Harold E. Nelson, Thomas J. Ohlemiller, William M. Pitts, Kuldeep R. Prasad
The collapses of the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001, resulted from a combination of aircraft impact damage and the ensuing fires. This report

Analysis of Aircraft Impacts into the World Trade Center Towers (Chapters 1-8). Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World Trade Center Disaster (NIST NCSTAR 1-2B) ***DRAFT for Public Comments***

Author(s)
Steven W. Kirkpatrick, Robert T. Bocchieri, Fahim Sadek, R A. MacNeill, S Holmes, B D. Peterson, R W. Cilke, C Navarro
The objective of this report was to analyze the aircraft impacts into each of the World Trade Center (WTC) towers to provide the following: (1) estimates of

Messaging in the Process Specification Language

Author(s)
Conrad Bock, Michael Gruninger
This paper characterizes messages by the constraints they place on participation of entities in processes. Constraints are expressed in two ways: informally as

Healthcare Strategic Focus Area: Clinical Informatics

Author(s)
Conrad Bock, Lisa Carnahan, Steven J. Fenves, Michael Gruninger, V Kashyap, Bettijoyce B. Lide, Jim G. Nell, Ravi S. Raman, Ram D. Sriram
NIST has conducted several workshops and other information gathering activities, that have identified several key strategic opportunities in healthcare

GerberTranslator: Moving towards new PCB standards

Author(s)
Matthew L. Aronoff, John V. Messina
This paper describes the key features of the NIST-developed software tool called ?GerberTranslator?. GerberTranslator is a software translator which automates

Computer Security Division 2004 Annual Report

Author(s)
Tanya L. Brewer
This report covers the work conducted within the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Computer Security Division during Fiscal Year 2004. It

Overview of the TREC 2004 Question Answering Track

Author(s)
Ellen M. Voorhees
The TREC 2004 Question Answering track contained a single task in which question series were used to define a set of targets. Each series contained factoid and

Overview of the TREC 2004 Robust Retrieval Track

Author(s)
Ellen M. Voorhees
The robust retrieval track explores methods for improving the consistency of retrieval technology by focusing on poorly performing topics. The retrieval task in

Overview of TREC 2004

Author(s)
Ellen M. Voorhees
This report provides an overview of the thirteenth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2004. TREC 2004 was held at the National Institute of Standards and

Overview of the TREC 2004 Novelty Track

Author(s)
Ian M. Soboroff
TREC 2004 marks the third and final year for the Novelty Track. The task is as follows: Given a TREC topic and an ordered list of documents, systems must find
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