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Chemical Kinetics and Fire

December 31, 2025
Author(s)
Gregory Linteris, John Griffiths
The purpose of this chapter is to set out the principles of chemical kinetics as they apply to combustion in flames and fires. Chemical equilibrium, which was discussed in a previous chapter, deals with the final preferred state of a given set of reactants

New Precast Concrete Moment Connections under a Column Removal Scenario

September 22, 2025
Author(s)
Malcolm Ammons, Jonathan Weigand, Travis Thonstad
This technical note presents an experimental investigation of the performance of five novel precast concrete moment-resisting connections subjected to a simulated column removal scenario. The objectives of the investigation were 1) to characterize the

The Effect of Water Vapor on the Flammability of Fluorinated Refrigerants

March 24, 2025
Author(s)
Gregory Linteris, Michael Hegetschweiler, Valeri Babushok
Possible replacements for the refrigerant R-134a have been proposed in previous work based on their flammability behavior in standard tests of the Heating, Ventilation, Air-Conditioning, and Refrigeration industry. The present work extends that behavior to

Impacts of household water demands and water heater delivery temperatures on opportunistic premise plumbing pathogens (OPPPs) in a residential setting

February 1, 2025
Author(s)
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

Additive Construction - The Path to Standardization II: Workshop Report

January 16, 2025
Author(s)
Shawn Platt
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

Preliminary observations of the April 5th, 2024, Mw4.8 New Jersey Earthquake

October 1, 2024
Author(s)
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

Effects of Weathering and Formulation on the Properties of Vinyl Siding

September 23, 2024
Author(s)
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

Workshop on Decarbonization: A Gap Analysis of LCA Standards for Industry

September 20, 2024
Author(s)
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

Systematic Review of Embodied Carbon Assessment and Reduction in Building Life Cycles

September 18, 2024
Author(s)
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

Additive Construction in Practice - Realities of Acceptance Criteria

September 4, 2024
Author(s)
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

Detecting Firefighter's Tenability Utilizing Machine Learning

August 30, 2024
Author(s)
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

Database-assisted-design facilitating performance-based tall building design

July 17, 2024
Author(s)
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)

Test Facility for Pressure Losses in Plumbing Pipes and Fittings

July 15, 2024
Author(s)
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

Report on High Energy Arcing Fault Experiments - International Experimental Results from Bus Duct and Switchgear Enclosures

July 1, 2024
Author(s)
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

Research on Fixture-Level Peak Probability of Water Use in Commercial Buildings

June 5, 2024
Author(s)
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

Ozone generation and chemistry from 222 nm germicidal ultraviolet light in a fragrant restroom

May 20, 2024
Author(s)
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
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