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There are many types of sensor devices available in today s market with many still in development. These devices send signals representing the detection of...
This is the April 2005 edition of energy price indices and discount factors for performing life-cycle cost analyses of energy and water conservation and...
The Fire Dynamics Simulation (FDS) research program at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has produced software that simulates fire...
This is the April 2003 edition of energy price indices and discount factors for performing life-cycle cost analyses of energy and water conservation and...
The BEES (Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability) version 3.0 software implements a rational, systematic technique for selecting environmentally...
This is the April 2004 edition of energy price indices and discount factors for performing life-cycle cost analyses of energy and water conservation and...
Innovations in residential construction have faced many barriers to adoption. One critical barrier is the absence of metrics that allow homeowners, home...
This is the April 2006 edition of energy price indices and discount factors for performing life-cycle cost analyses of energy and water conservation and...
X Feng, Edward Garboczi, Jeffrey W. Bullard, Kenneth A. Snyder, Paul E. Stutzman, T Mason
This report summarizes a project that dealt with the characterization of a fly ash and fly-ash blended cement material, so that these could be incorporated into...
The tests reported herein were intended to gain information on how manufactured home shear walls perform under extreme loads. The specimens tested represent...
This report describes the results of the chemical contamination and decontamination of pipe materials found in residential building for the second phase of a...
On July 11, 2000, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) andCarnegie-Mellon University (CMU) held a joint workshop with industry at theNIST...
One of the recommendations of the National Construction Safety Team for the Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World Trade Center Disaster...
Three standard fire resistance tests (ASTM E 119) were conducted on a composite floor system to study the effects of 1) test restraint conditions, and 2) scale...
The problem of generating a generalized solution is further exasperated by the varying nature of reporting requirements placed by clients on the construction...
This publication is the Proceedings of the 38th Joint Meeting of the U.S.-Japan Panel on Wind and Seismic Effects. The meeting was held at the National...
The Building and Fire Research Laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, in cooperation with the American Institute of Steel...
Smokeview is a software tool designed to visualize numerical calculations generated by the NIST Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS), a computational fluid dynamics...
The Advanced Technology Program (ATP) represents one of the principal efforts of the U.S. government to proactively foster technological innovation. The ATP...
The Advanced Technology Program (ATP) is a federal science and technology program whose mission is to accelerate the development of innovative technologies for...
An update of the NIST Standard Reference Database Number 30, the Structural Ceramics Database, has been completed. This update, designated SCD Update (April...
The first volume of a collection of phase diagrams focused on the increasingly important field of electronic ceramics was presented to the American Ceramic...
Biomaterials are nonviable materials used in medical devices, that are intended to interact with biological systems. In 2002 the total U.S. Medical device...
The purpose of this report is to identify and illustrate an approach to simplify and strengthen capital planning for information system security in compliance...