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Carlos Arteta, Jefferson Marulanda Piedrahita, Christopher Segura
The adequate seismic behavior of slender reinforced concrete (RC) structural walls relies heavily on the effectiveness of the boundary element (BE) in providing stable resistance against combined axial and flexural-shear compression demands resulting from
Alshae Logan, Jumana Aljafari, Visesh Uppoor, Tania Ullah, Jennifer Dootz
Efforts aimed towards water and energy conservation within residential buildings may create enhanced conditions for Opportunistic Premise Plumbing Pathogens (OPPPs) growth. To investigate this issue, a study was conducted to assess the effect of water
The Flexible Resource Controller (FRC) is a multiple-objective controller that manages residential heat pumps (HP), electric water heaters (DHW), electric vehicle (EV) charging, and batteries. The first objective is to manage energy use to save customers
The "Additive Construction – The Path to Standardization II" workshop, hosted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), brought together key players from the additive
Daniel Rhee, DongHun Yeo, Mehedy Mashnad, Brian Carman, Charys Clay
This NIST Technical Note presents the User's Manual for the DAD_PBD version 2.0 software, a user-friendly tool for the advanced structural design of dynamically sensitive steel and reinforced concrete buildings. The software utilizes the Database-Assisted
Oliver Boyd, William Barnhart, James Bourke, Martin Chapman, Paul Earle, Guo-chin Dino Huang, Jessica Thompson Jobe, Won-Young Kim, Frederik Link, Mairi Litherland, Andrew Lloyd, Maureen D. Long, Sara McBride, Andrew Michael, Walter Mooney, Gregory Mountain, Aspasia Nikolaou, Alexandros Savvaidis, Felix Waldhauser, Cecily Wolfe, Clara Yoon
On April 5, 2024, at 10:23 am local time, a moment magnitude 4.8 earthquake struck Tewksbury Township, NJ, about 65 km west of the New York City metropolitan area. Millions of people from Virginia to Maine and beyond felt the ground shaking, resulting in
Ronald Lankone, Mauro Zammarano, Song Jhang, Ickchan Kim, David Goodwin, Gianluca Sarti, Stefano Gardi, Camillo Cardelli, Lipiin Sung
Vinyl siding has become a popular choice for residential exteriors across the United States. In its insulated form, this siding includes a shell, capstock, and substrate, that encase a foamed material, serving as an efficient insulating material. While it
Noah Last, Joshua D. Kneifel, Amy Costello, Catherine Houska, Katherine Morris
ASTM International's committee on sustainability (E60), in collaboration with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), hosted the virtual "Workshop on Decarbonization: A Gap Analysis of LCA Standards for Industry" on October 10-11, 2023
Yating Zhang, Siamak Sattar, Dustin Cook, Katherine Johnson, Juan Fung
The building and construction sector is the largest carbon emitter, accounting for more than one-third of annual global emissions. The emissions can be divided into operational and embodied carbon, associated with building operations and building materials
Megan Kreiger, Eric Kreiger, Stephan Mansour, Sean Monkman, Mohammad Aghajani Delavar, Petros Sideris, Casey Roberts, Mathew Friedell, Shawn Platt, Scott Jones
Additive Construction has increased dramatically within the United States in the last few years. Efforts to develop acceptance criteria have increased since 2020 and are being developed through integration of research efforts and early engagement with
Qi Tong, Hongqiang FANG, Eugene Yujun Fu, Wai Cheong Tam, Thomas Gernay
The proposed research aims to leverage machine learning to detect thermal operating classes and improve the tenability of firefighters in a commercial building. A total of 3000 simulations are run with FDS to collect temperature from heat detectors. The
Jan Spale, Andreas Hoess, Ian Bell, Davide Ziviani
Single component working fluids, which could be used in a safe, efficient, reliable, and cost‐efficient industrial high temperature heat pump (HTHP) subcritical vapor compression cycle (VCC) for process heat delivery at 200 °C are scarce and come with
Daniel Rhee, Sophie Sisson, Brian Carman, Mehedy Mashnad, DongHun Yeo
In recent years, wind design, particularly for high-rise buildings, has seen a paradigm shift from a code-based descriptive method to a more specific performance-objective-based design. This new approach, known as the Performance-Based Wind Design (PBWD)
Lingnan Lin, Natascha S. Milesi-Ferretti, Glen A. Glaeser
This report describes a new test facility at NIST for the measurement of pressure losses in pipes and fittings used in plumbing systems. Pressure losses are fundamental inputs to the design of premise plumbing systems, yet the available technical data on
Gabriel Taylor, Anthony D. Putorti Jr., Scott Bareham, Christopher U. Brown, Wai Cheong Tam, Michael Heck, Lucy Fox, Stephen Fink, Michael Selepak, Edward Hnetkovsky, Nicholas Melly, Kenneth Hamburger, Kenneth Miller
This report documents an experimental program designed to collect data and information to evaluate the performance of models developed to estimate the electrical high energy arcing fault (HEAF) hazard. This report covers full-scale laboratory experiments
Tao Li, Steven Buchberger, Toritseju Omaghomi, Gary Klein, William M. Healy
novel wireless sensor network is developed and demonstrated for monitoring indoor fixture level water use in buildings. The new technology consists of a low-cost, battery-powered, miniature wireless sensor module for non-invasive detection of flow through
To facilitate the design and analysis related to indoor air quality (IAQ) and ventilation in buildings, a plug-in named ANT (contam-in-ANT) has been developed for Rhino/Grasshopper, an algorithm aided design platform. ANT is a whole-building IAQ and
Michael F. Link, Rileigh Robertson, Andrew Shore, Behrang Hamadani, Christina Cecelski, Dustin Poppendieck
Devices using 222 nm germicidal ultraviolet light (GUV222) have been marketed to reduce virus transmission indoors with low risk of occupant harm from direct UV exposure. GUV222 generates ozone, an indoor air pollutant and oxidant, under constrained
Yating Zhang, Juan Fung, Dustin Cook, Katherine Johnson, Siamak Sattar
This paper reviews the state of the art in using benefit–cost analysis (BCA) to inform earthquake risk reduction decisions by building owners and policymakers. The goal is to provide a roadmap for the application and future development of BCA methods and
Michael F. Link, Rileigh Robertson, Dustin Poppendieck
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, air cleaning technologies were promoted as useful tools for disinfecting public spaces and combating airborne pathogen transmission. However, no standard method exists to assess potentially harmful byproduct formation
Donald Scott, Jennifer Goupil, Melissa Burton, Catherine Gorle, Ahsan Kareem, Ted Stathopoulos, Bradley Young
In September 2022, the Structural Engineering Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers commenced a project under National Institute of Standards and Technology Contract No. 133ND22PNB730391 to develop workshops on Advancement in Computational
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations for structural wind engineering applications require a fully developed boundary layer approach flow with horizontal homogeneity and zero pressure gradient for accurate characterization of wind loading on a
Mohammed Morovat, Joseph Main, Jonathan Weigand, Malcolm Ammons, Fahim H. Sadek, Long Phan
This report describes the development and validation of a computational modeling approach for steel gravity frames with composite floor systems subjected to fire exposure. A full-scale compartment fire test conducted on a two-story steel gravity frame