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Murugiah P. Souppaya, Larry Feldman, Gregory A. Witte
This bulletin summarizes the information presented in NIST SP 800-184: Guide for Cybersecurity Event Recovery. The publication provides organizations with...
Jeffrey W. Gilman, R Haggenmueller, Sameer Rahatekar, Jeffrey Fagan, Jae H. Chun, Matthew Becker, Rajesh R. Naik, Todd Krauss, Lisa Carlson, Shana O. Kelley, Paul C. Trulove, D M. Fox, John Kadla
The application of single wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNT) in current and future applications crucially depends on the ability to process SWCNT in a solvent to...
Computational tools have been developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for modeling fire spread and smoke transport. These models...
Star R. Burgess, Kathleen C. Whisner, Glenn P. Forney, Paul A. Reneke
Welcome to BFRL Publications, 2001. These two CD-ROMs contain publications produced by BFRL staff, publications resulting from contracts or grants with BFRL and...
This report is an analysis of the potential of tunable laser diode absorption spectroscopy (TDLAS) for recording carbon monoxide (CO) concentrations in hydrogen...
The Minerals Management Service (MMS), U.S. Department of Interior, is designated as the lead agency for in situ burn research in the Oil Pollution Research and...
The analysis presented in this report was conducted for Benchmark Exercise # 2, Part II in the International Collaborative Fire Model Project (ICFMP). The...
The zone model JET 2.0 is a two-zone, single compartment computer model designed to predict the maximum plume centerline and ceiling jet temperature, velocity...
This report describes the results of a brain storming session conducted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology s Building and Fire Research...
Smokeview is a software tool designed to visualize numerical calculations generated by the NIST Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS), a computational fluid dynamics...
The concentrations of certain gases generated during fire suppression were determined as part of the evaluation of the automatic fire extinguishing system for...
This report describes results obtained from a fire protection engineering analysis of an historic government office building located in Washington, DC. The...
The number concentration, ionization chamber output, and mass concentration were recorded continuously for five different test smokes generated in the fire...
The collapse of the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001, resulting from a combination of aircraft impact damage and subsequent fires, was studied as...
It is possible to generate electrical energy from the motion of water due to ocean tides and waves. Oceans are a much more ubiquitous source of flowing water...
Walter W. Jones, Richard D. Peacock, Glenn P. Forney, Paul A. Reneke
CFAST is a zone model capable of predicting the environment in a multi-compartment structure subjected to a fire. It calculates the time evolving distribution...
Mini-mattresses of a size used for commercial display, were subjected to a pair of NIST-developed gas burners and the resulting heat release behavior was...
Richard Gann, Star R. Burgess, Kathleen C. Whisner, Paul A. Reneke
As a result of the 1987 Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer and the 1990 U.S. Clean Air Act, there began a movement toward phaseout of...
The purpose of detecting fires early is to provide an alarm consistent with an environment which is deemed to be a threat to people or a building. High...
William D. Davis, Walter W. Jones, David Holmberg, K A. Reed
This paper identifies building and building related information that would be useful to first responders (fire, police, EMS) and discusses examples of how the...
This manuscript contains the technical documentation for the MatML Editor, an enabling technology intended to support widespread adoption of the language. The...
This manuscript contains the end-user documentation for the MatML Editor, an enabling technology intended to support widespread adoption of the language. The...
A series of measurements and performance evaluations has been conducted in the Temperature Control Module (TCM) for three control system vendors in order to...
This report identifies and examines the important issues associated with a measurement and modeling program intended to evaluate how contaminants accidentally...
Mark E. Palmer, M Burns, T L. Teague, Mary Turton, Rurik Turton
The AEX XML Schema Reference Guide summarizes the design principles and the structures of the AEX (Automating Equipment Information eXchange) XML schemas...
Stephen J. Treado, S Cook, Banty Jain, Michael Galler
This report describes a typical implementation of a building access control system integrated with other portions of a building automation system, using some of...