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Evaluating Feedback Systems for Residential Building Energy Monitoring

August 10, 2013
Author(s)
Wenqi Guo, Tania Ullah, MengChu Zhou
Rising global energy demand, increasing electricity prices, and the limitation of natural resources have led to increased interest in energy monitoring of residential buildings. Much research has been done to examine the effect of energy use feedback to

The Effects of Wildfire Prevention Activities

August 1, 2013
Author(s)
Douglas S. Thomas, David T. Butry, Jeffrey P. Prestemon
Eighty percent of wildfires are human caused, so it is important for decision makers and land managers to consider the role of prevention activities that minimize the costs and losses of human-caused wildfires. There have been significant efforts aimed at

Energy Price Indices and Discount Factors for Life-Cycle Cost Analysis - 2013

July 15, 2013
Author(s)
Amy S. Rushing, Joshua D. Kneifel, Barbara C. Lippiatt
This is the 2013 edition of energy price indices and discount factors for performing life-cycle cost analyses of energy and water conservation and renewable energy projects in federal facilities. It will be effective from April 1, 2013 to March 31, 2014

Experimental study of radiative heat transfer in a translucent fuel sample exposed to different spectral sources

June 28, 2013
Author(s)
Gregory T. Linteris, Nicolas Ball, J. Raynard, Guillermo Rein, Jose L. Torero, M. Forsth, P. Boulet, G. Parent, Z. Acem
Radiative heat transfer to a solid is a key mechanism in fire dynamics, and in-depth absorption is especially of importance for translucent fuels. The sample-heater interaction for radiative heat transfer is experimentally investigated in this study with

A Case Study of a Community Affected by the Witch and Guejito Fires: Report #2 Evaluating the Effects of Hazard Mitigation Actions on Structure Ignitions

June 5, 2013
Author(s)
Alexander Maranghides, Derek McNamara, William Mell, Jason Trook, Blaza Toman
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has a suite of research projects addressing risk reduction in Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) communities. The NIST WUI Team was invited by CAL FIRE to collect post incident data from the California

A Generative Model for Fingerprint Minutiae

June 4, 2013
Author(s)
Melissa K. Taylor, Nicholas G. Paulter Jr., Qijun Zhao, Yi Zhang, Anil K. Jain
Fingerprint minutiae are the most important features used by latent fingerprint examiners, as well as in automated fingerprint recognition systems. Hence, understanding the statistical distribution of minutiae is essential in many fingerprint recognition

Nanofluids, Heat-Transfer Equipment and Plain-Vanilla

June 3, 2013
Author(s)
Mark A. Kedzierski
Nanoparticle materials can be very inexpensive and the technology for producing nanofluids is mature. The production of inks, paints, coatings, and suntan lotions is old enough to be a very competitive industry. So, nanofluids probably set the benchmark

Assessment of the glassy phase reactivity in fly ashes used for geopolymer cements

June 1, 2013
Author(s)
Paul E. Stutzman, Katherine Aughenbaugh, Maria Juenger
Geopolymer cements have not found widespread use as a portland cement replacement, in part due to the difficulty in proportioning mixtures in a reliable manner. Unlike portland cements, which are mixed with water, geopolymer cements contain caustic

Impact of Test and Foam Design on Smoldering

May 14, 2013
Author(s)
Mauro Zammarano, Szabolcs Matko, Rick D. Davis
Smoldering propensity of fabrics used in upholstered furniture can be assessed using foam mockups according to the CPSC proposed regulation. This approach requires a polyurethane flexible foam with reproducible and well- characterized smoldering. The

Wildland-Urban Interface Fire Research Needs- Summary Report

May 14, 2013
Author(s)
Nelson P. Bryner, Erik L. Johnsson
In response to the increasing losses due to WUI fires and to ensure that measurement science keeps pace with needed improvements in materials, fire-resistant design, mitigation response, and building and fire codes, NIST sponsored the Workshop on Wildland

A stiff variable time step transport solver for CONTAM

May 10, 2013
Author(s)
David M. Lorenzetti, William Stuart Dols, Andrew K. Persily, Michael D. Sohn
CONTAM, a multizone model for predicting whole-building airflow and contaminant transport, has been updated to improve the speed and accuracy of its transport calculations. CVODE, a general-purpose code for solving ordinary differential equations, brings

Metrological Traceability for Guarded-Hot-Plate Apparatus

May 9, 2013
Author(s)
Robert R. Zarr
An approach for establishing metrological traceability for measurement results from guarded-hot-plate apparatus consistent with policy at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is presented. A brief example for initiating met-rological

VISCOSITY AND DENSITY OF ALUMINUM OXIDE NANOLUBRICANT

May 8, 2013
Author(s)
Mark A. Kedzierski
This paper presents liquid kinematic viscosity and density measurements of a synthetic polyolester-based aluminum oxide (Al2O3) nanoparticle dispersion (nanolubricant) at atmospheric pressure over the temperature range 288 K to 318 K. Two Al2O3 particles
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