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The Building and Fire Research Laboratory (BFRL) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), under the sponsorship of the United States Fire...
Water uses several different mechanisms to suppress and extinguish fires: fuel cooling, flame cooling, oxygen displacement and reduction of radiation feedback...
***EACH PAPER IS TREATED LIKE A SEPARATE DOCUMENT AND MAY BE VIEWED AND/OR DOWNLOADED THAT WAY*** The Building and Fire Research Laboratory (BFRL) of the...
This section reports on two studies conducted at NIST on the suppression of wood crib fires and tire fires. An overview of previous research on the use of water...
Dynamic load balancing is considered in the context of adaptive multilevel methods for partial differential equations on distributed memory multiprocessors. An...
Allan H. Harvey, J S. Gallagher, Johanna Levelt Sengers
Schiebener et al. Published a formulation for the refractive index of water and steam in this Journal in 1990. It extended over the ranges 0.2 m to 2.5 m in...
On May 27, 1997, several tornadoes hit the Central Texas area in the counties of McLennan, Bell, Williamson, and Travis. The most destructive of these tornadoes...
This paper presents results on direct optical matching, using Fourier transforms, and neural networks for matching fingerprints for authentication. Direct...
NIST's Building and fire Research Laboratory (BFRL), one of NIST's seven Laboratories, enhances the competitivness of U.S. industry and public safety rhgough...
The Construction and Building Subcommittee of the National Science and Technology Council is developing baseline measures of current construction industry...
This user's manual documents the use of the computer software written for the partial automation of the sub-1 Kg precision mass comparators and environmental...
This document is a transceiption of an audio recording of presentations and discussions from the second NIST workshop on the development of machine tool...
Thomas R. O'Brian, Robert D. Saunders, Albert C. Parr, E A. Early
Transmission density is an important physical property for exposed films in the fields of medicine, non-destructive testing, photography, and graphic arts...
This bulletin discusses the techniques that organizations should use to measure the effectiveness of their IT security training programs and the extent to which...
Fernando L. Podio, W Vollrath, J Williams, B Kobler, D Crouse
Sophisticated network storage management applications are rapidly evolving to satisfy a market demand for highly reliable data storage systems with tremendous...
WebSubmit is a Web-based framework providing seamless access to applications on a collection of heterogeneous computing systems. Strong authentication methods...
Richard J. Fields, Timothy J. Foecke, Roland deWit, G E. Hicho, Lyle E. Levine
This report determines what data is typically needed for models predicting crash behavior, reviews the methods available to obtain such data, and identifies...
Anna Bartolotta, Charles R. McLean, Yung-Tsun T. Lee, Albert W. Jones
This document describes the results of the requirement analysis phase for a neutral interface specification to discrete event simulation software. The interface...
William D. Davis, Kathy A. Notarianni, P Z. Tapper
The analysis of recent experiments (NIST TN 1423) using JP-5 and JP-8 pool fires performed in 15 m and 22 m high hangars suggest that plume centerline...
S W. Kline, Mark E. Palmer, J Fielding, M Gilbert, T Teague, D Witherall
This document specifies the scope and information requirements of the STEP application protocol (AP) for the exchange of process engineering data with a central...
This paper discusses data collected as a result of planning a project to evaluate document recognition and information retrieval technologies. In the process of...
Eric J. Amis, Barry J. Bauer, F I. Groehn, T J. Prosa, Da-Wei Liu, K A. Barnes, C L. Jackson, B D. Viers, Alamgir Karim, Jack F. Douglas
Dendrimer, dendrigraft, and hyperbranched solutions, blends, and interpenetrating polymer networks are characterized by small neutron and x-ray scattering...
The Computer-Aided Manufacturing Engineering (CAME) program is developing a number of integrated software toolkits for design, manufacturing engineering, and...