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Electron diffraction via the transmission electron microscope is a powerful method for characterizing the structure of materials, including perfect crystals and...
The NIST Ceramics Division maintains two materials property databases on the physical, mechanical, thermal, and other properties of high temperature...
Winnie K. Wong-Ng, Robert S. Roth, Terrell A. Vanderah, H F. McMurdie
Research in phase equilibria and crystallography has been a tradition in the Ceramics Division at NIST since the early thirties. In the early years, effort was...
Scientists in the Crystallography Section at NIST/NBS made several outstanidng contributions greatly influencing the development and advancement of high...
Winnie K. Wong-Ng, T Siegrist, G DeTitta, L Finger, H Evans, E Gabe, G Enright, J T. Armstrong, M Levenson, Lawrence P. Cook, C R. Hubbard
Through extensive international collaborations, a standard reference material, SRM 1990 (a set of 3500 units of Cr-doped Al2O3, or ruby sphere) for single...
The discretely diffracting aperiodic crystals termed quasicrystals, discovery at NBS in the early 1980s, have led to much interdisciplinary activity involving...
Winnie K. Wong-Ng, H F. McMurdie, C R. Hubbard, Alan D. Mighell
The Research Associateship Program of the Joint Committee on Powder Diffraction -International Centre for Diffraction Data (JCPDS-ICDD, now known as the ICDD)...
The Council for Optical Radiation Measurements (CORM) issues periodic reports which, in part, bear upon the mission and responsibility of the Optical Technology...
On May 16, 2001, the National Institute of Standards and Technology lost a most illustrious career scientist in x-ray research. This volume is dedicated to...
This paper describes the scope and configuration of the simulation model that is under development for a manufacturing supply chain. An information model that...
Kevin B. McGrattan, Glenn P. Forney, J E. Floyd, Simo A. Hostikka
Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) is a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model of fire-driven fluid flow. The software described in this document solves...
Kevin B. McGrattan, Howard R. Baum, Ronald G. Rehm, Anthony P. Hamins, Glenn P. Forney, J E. Floyd, Simo A. Hostikka
Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) is a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model of fire-driven fluid flow. The equations described in this document are a form of...
Michael D. Garris, Craig I. Watson, R. McCabe, Charles L. Wilson
This report documents a public domain fingerprint image software distribution developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for the...
This report contains technical comments and recommendations regarding the ¿Interstate Criminal History Transmission Specification ¿ XML Version 2.01¿ published...
This new NIST fingerprint database offers the user complete paired fingerprint cards that include all ten rolled fingerprints and the plain/flat impressions at...
This new NIST fingerprint database offers the user complete paired fingerprint cards that include all ten rolled fingerprints and the plain impressions at the...
Kevin B. McGrattan, Glenn P. Forney, J E. Floyd, Simo A. Hostikka
Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) is a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modelof fire-driven fluid flow. The software described in this document solves numerically...
ALARM, Alternative Life Safety Analysis for Retrofit Cost Minimization, is a software tool that helps prison facility managers and fire safety engineers achieve...
Seven concrete beams reinforced internally with steel and externally with carbon fiber-reinforced polymers (FRP) applied after the concrete had cracked were...
For more than one hundred years, the continuous theme underlying the NBS / NIST staff contribution to the crystallography of building materials has been the...
The strength of an interlocking fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) connection was measured in bending, and in-plane and out-of-plane shear. This connection allows...
Kevin B. McGrattan, Howard R. Baum, Ronald G. Rehm, Anthony P. Hamins, Glenn P. Forney, J E. Floyd, Simo A. Hostikka
Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) is a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modelof fire-driven fluid flow. The equations described in this document are a form of the...
The Standard Platinum Resistance Thermometer (SPRT) is defined by the International Temperature Scale of 1990 (ITS-90) as the interpolating instrument for...
Loss of resolution due to image blurring is a major concern in electron microscopy. The point spread function describing that blur is generally unknown. This...
The coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) continues to be a critical parameter in modeling for the microelectronics industry. Over the past several years, NIST...