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The problem of sharing data has many facets. The need to share data across multiple enterprises, different hardware platforms, different data storage paradigms...
The Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory (MEL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has been conducting research on control of...
Computer viruses continue to pose a threat to the integrity and availability of computer systems. This is especially true for users of personal computers. A...
Computer security "incidents" occur with alarming frequency. The incidents range from direct attacks by both hackers and insiders to automated attacks such as...
The use of acoustic emission (AE) as an early indicator of structural materials exposed to a flame has been investigated and found to be possible. Piezoelectric...
The flow of smoke under beamed ceilings is simulated using a field model. This work was performed in order to confirm that fire detector response can be...
Barbara C. Levin, E Braun, M Paabo, Richard H. Harris Jr., Magdalena Navarro
Two full-scale protocols (A & B) were tested to determine the efficacy of cuprous oxide (Cu2O) in reducing the concentrations of hydrogen cyanide (HCN) from...
Paul A. Reneke, Walter W. Jones, Richard D. Peacock, Rebecca W. Portier
CFAST is a zone model capable of predicting the environment in a multi-compartmentstructure subjected to a fire. This guide provides a detailed description of...
In a cooperative effort with government and industry, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) conducted a study to assess the current and...
This paper describes a user-friendly computer model, TMPSUB2. This model calculates the temperature field throughout a solid (but porous) substrate which can...
E Braun, Daniel L. Lowe, Walter W. Jones, P Tatem, J Bailey, R Carey
Data were obtained from four large scale shipboard fire tests. The test series was designed to evaluate the efficacy of a smoke ejection system for the removal...
In the first quarter of '92, much of the activity of the National PDES Testbed revolved around two major events: CALS Expo '91 and the joint meeting of IPO...