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NIST Pubs

Measurement of the Flow Resistance of Vegetation

April 1, 2019

Author(s)

Ryan L. Falkenstein-Smith, Kevin B. McGrattan, Blaza Toman, Marco G. Fernandez

This report documents the measurement of the wind resistance of different types of vegetation. The measurements are made in a wind tunnel with a 2.0 m test...

Voices of First Responders Examining Public Safety Communication Problems and Requested Functionality: Findings from User-Centered Interviews, Phase 1, Volume 2

March 28, 2019

Author(s)

Shanee T. Dawkins, Yee-Yin Choong, Mary F. Theofanos, Kristen Greene, Susanne M. Furman, Michelle P. Steves, Sandra S. Prettyman

The public safety community has a unique opportunity to improve communication technology for incident response with the creation of the national public safety...

Preparation of cylindrical tensile specimens for simultaneous mechanical testing and X-ray computed tomography

March 26, 2019

Author(s)

Felix H. Kim, Shawn P. Moylan, Edward J. Garboczi

Cylindrical tensile specimens were designed and prepared for in situ mechanical testing using X- ray computed tomography (XCT). Powder bed fusion-based metal...

2018 National Institute of Standards and Technology Environmental Scan

March 26, 2019

Author(s)

Jason E. Boehm, Heather Evans, Ajitkumar Jillavenkatesa, Maria Nadal, Mark A. Przybocki, Paul Witherell, Rebecca A. Zangmeister

The 2018 National Institute of Standards and Technology Environmental Scan provide an analysis of the external factors that can influence NIST and the...

Apparatus for Characterizing Gas-Phase Chemical Precursor Delivery for Thin Film Deposition Processes

March 26, 2019

Author(s)

James E. Maslar, William A. Kimes, Brent A. Sperling

Thin film vapor deposition processes, e.g., chemical vapor deposition, are widely utilized in high volume manufacturing of electronic and optoelectronic devices...

Energy Price Indices and Discount Factors for Life-Cycle Cost Analysis - 2019 Annual Supplement to NIST Handbook 135

March 25, 2019

Author(s)

Priya Lavappa, Joshua D. Kneifel

Security Requirements for Cryptographic Modules

March 22, 2019

Author(s)

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Michael J. Cooper, Kim B. Schaffer

The selective application of technological and related procedural safeguards is an important responsibility of every federal organization in providing adequate...

Transitioning the Use of Cryptographic Algorithms and Key Lengths

March 21, 2019

Author(s)

Elaine B. Barker, Allen L. Roginsky

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) provides cryptographic key management guidance for defining and implementing appropriate key...

Recommendation for Pair-Wise Key Establishment Using Integer Factorization Cryptography

March 21, 2019

Author(s)

Elaine B. Barker, Lidong Chen, Allen L. Roginsky, Richard Davis, Scott Simon

This Recommendation specifies key-establishment schemes using integer factorization cryptography (in particular, RSA). Both key-agreement and key transport...

Certification of Standard Reference Material® SRM2687a Portland Cement Clinker

March 20, 2019

Author(s)

Paul E. Stutzman, Nathanael A. Heckert

A new Standard Reference Material (SRM) for portland cement clinker has been produced for the Office of Standard Reference Materials at the National Institute...

Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in Marine Mammal Blubber: Results from an Interlaboratory Study

March 20, 2019

Author(s)

Kevin Huncik, John Kucklick, Jared M. Ragland

To support NOAA's Marine Mammal Health and Stranding program, NIST Charleston was requested to investigate the feasibility of measuring polycyclic aromatic...

A Black-Box Non-Invasive Characterization Method for Industrial Wireless Networks

March 18, 2019

Author(s)

Mohamed Hany, Rick Candell, Kang B. Lee

Industrial control systems are increasingly using wireless communications to enable monitoring and control of processes that had once been economically...

interlab: A Python module for analyzing interlaboratory comparison data

March 15, 2019

Author(s)

David A. Sheen

interlab was developed as a software tool to perform consensus analysis on spectral data from interlaboratory studies. It is designed to estimate the spread in...

Reference Correlations for the Viscosity of 13 Inorganic Molten Salts

March 12, 2019

Author(s)

K.A. Tasidou, Ch. D. Chliatzou, Marc J. Assael, K.D. Antoniadis, Sofia K. Mylona, Marcia L. Huber, William A. Wakeham

In 1988, reference correlations for the viscosity of a selection of molten inorganic salts were proposed by Janz and have been used extensively. During the last...

2017 Pilot Open Speech Analytic Technologies Evaluation (2017 NIST Pilot OpenSAT) Post Evaluation Summary

March 7, 2019

Author(s)

Frederick R. Byers, Seyed Omid Sadjadi

Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things

March 7, 2019

Author(s)

Christopher Greer, Martin J. Burns, David Wollman, Edward Griffor

This NIST Special Publication describes the relationship between the phrases "cyber-physical systems" and "Internet of Things." CPS and IoT both refer to trends...

Influence of Fire on the Lateral Resistance of Cold-Formed Steel Shear Walls Phase 2: Oriented Strand Board, Strap Braced, and Gypsum-Sheet Steel Composite

March 5, 2019

Author(s)

Matthew S. Hoehler, Blanca Andres Valiente, Matthew F. Bundy

This report presents experimental investigations of the performance of cold-formed steel lateral force-resisting systems (CFS-LRFS) under combinations of...

Measurement Uncertainty of the Air System in the IBAL

March 5, 2019

Author(s)

Amanda J. Pertzborn

The Intelligent Building Agents Laboratory (IBAL) has been designed and constructed to demonstrate the potential for distributed, intelligent software agents to...