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Michael A. Riley, Nicholas G. Paulter Jr., Dwight D. Barry
A new configuration of the light screen pairs used in a redundant ballistic chronograph is described. This configuration complies with current ASTM International and National Institute of Justice requirements for measuring the ballistic performance of body
Shengyen Li, Yan Lu, Kareem Aggour, Peter Coutts, Brennan Harris, Alex Kitt, Afina Lupulescu, Luke Mohr, Mike Vasquez
Additive manufacturing (AM) is an important enabler of Industry 4.0 but there are several hurdles that need to be overcome to fully realize the potential of AM. These challenges include the need for a data infrastructure to enable the scaling of the
KC Morris, Vincenzo Ferrero, Buddhika Hapuwatte, Noah Last, Nehika Mathur
A successful transition to a circular economy (CE) will require global participation, but the path to that transition will follow many unique routes depending on local situations. The transition must have rigorous technical underpinnings and well-conceived
Guodong Shao, Simon P. Frechette, Vijay Srinivasan
ISO has recently issued a series of standards (ISO 23247) that deals with a digital twin framework for manufacturing. It is a generic framework that can be specialized to enterprises engaged in different manufacturing processes, such as discrete, batch, or
Sofia Sotiriadou, Eleftheria Nonti, Marc Assael, Marcia L. Huber
This paper presents new wide-ranging correlations for the viscosity and thermal conductivity of 1-hexene based on critically evaluated experimental data. The viscosity correlation is valid from the triple point to 580 K and up to 245 MPa pressure, while
Bullet velocity measurements are critical to the understanding of the performance of firearms, their ammunition, and the ballistic protection of armor materials and systems, and these are essential to the improvement and advancement of firearms, ammunition
Kalina Jordanova, Michele Martin, Stephen Ogier, Megan Poorman, Katy Keenan
Object : Tissue relaxation of the brain is measured in vivo at 0.064 T. This work contributes to research efforts targeted at measuring quantitative magnetic resonance imaging properties of the human body at lower field strengths, thereby increasing the
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Morris J. Dworkin, Meltem Sonmez Turan, Nicky Mouha
In 2000, NIST announced the selection of the Rijndael block cipher family as the winner of theAdvanced Encryption Standard (AES) competition. Three members of the Rijndael family arespecified in this Standard: AES-128, AES-192, and AES-256. These use
Circular Economy (CE) efforts aim to tackle complex challenges such as climate change, depleting natural resources, and brittle supply chains while ensuring societal needs are met. The development of secondary sources as industrial feedstocks is important
Rudolf Wittner, Petr Holub, Cecilia Mascia, Francesca Frexia, Heimo Muller, Markus Plass, Clare M Allocca, Fay Betsou, Tony Burdett, Ibon Cancio, Adriane Chapman, Martin Chapman, Melanie Courtot, Vasa Curcin, Johann Eder, Mark Elliot, Katrina Exter, Carole Goble, Martin Golebiewski, Bron Kisler, Andreas Kremer, Simone Leo, Sheng Lin-Gibson, Anna Marsano, Marco Mattavelli, Josh Moore, Hiroki NAKAE, Isabelle PERSEIL, Ayat Salman, James Sluka, Stian Soiland-Reyes, Caterina Strambio De Castillia, michael sussman, Jason Swedlow, Kurt Zatloukal, Joerg Geiger
Open and practical exchange, dissemination, and reuse of specimens and data have become a fundamental requirement for life sciences research. The quality of the data obtained and thus the findings and knowledge derived is thus significantly influenced by
Mass spectra of saturated carbocyclic hydrocarbons containing a single three, four, five, six, seven and more membered ring are discussed followed by the examination of their unsaturated analogs including aromatic hydrocarbons. Mass spectrometry
R Coulon, C Michotte, S Courte, M Nonis, F van Wyngaardt, M Smith, A Bowan, C Keevers, E Clark, M Zarifi, A Ravindra, DB Kulkarni, R Sharma, Marco Capogni, P De Felice, M Capone, P Carconi, A Fazio, C Bobin, R Lins da Silva, A Leiras, J de Almeida Rangel, M Aguiar Leobino da Silva, A Iwahara, Denis E. Bergeron, Jeffrey T. Cessna, Ryan P. Fitzgerald, Lizbeth Laureano-Perez, Leticia Pibida, MW Van Rooy, Jf Lubbe, MJ van Staden, John Keightley, A Pearce, N Ramirez, E Bendall, S Collins, T Ziemek, E Lech, P Saganowski, M Czudek, A Listkowska, O Nahle, Karsten Kossert, M Takacs, M Krivosik, I Bonkova
Since 1976, 30 laboratories have submitted 85 samples of 60Co to the International Reference System (SIR) for activity comparison at the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM), with comparison identi_er BIPM.RI(II)-K1.Co-60. Recently, the PTB
Pei Lay Yap, Farzaneh Farivar, Victoria Coleman, Asa Jamting, Sam Gnaniah, Elisabeth Mansfield, Cheng Pu, Sandra Marcela Landi, Marcus Vinicius David, Emmanuel Flahaut, Paul Finnie, Mary Gallerneault, M. Dominque Locatelli, Sebastien Jacquinot, Carltoa Gray Slough, Jan Hanss, Jorg Menzel, Stefen Schmolzer, Lingling Ren, Andrew Pollard, Dusan Losic
Graphene materials are strongly emerging from academic research labs into industrial sectors with many developed products on market. Characterizations and quality control of graphene materials are very critical with an urgent demand for reliable
Cuong Nguyen, Avi Gopstein, Danielle Sass Byrnett, Kerry Worthington, Christopher Villarreal
As adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) increases across the United States and charging equipment to power vehicles is installed, the electricity system, states, utilities, EV manufacturers, EV supply equipment (EVSE) manufacturers, and stakeholders are
Lily Chen, Dustin Moody, Karen Randall, Andrew Regenscheid, Angela Robinson
This Recommendation specifies the set of elliptic curves recommended for U.S. Government use. In addition to the previously recommended Weierstrass curves defined over prime fields and binary fields, this Recommendation includes two newly specified Edwards
This Guide addresses compliance requirements for personal protective Equipment (PPE) used in the workplace, except for PPE used in a nuclear or medical setting. Several U.S. federal agencies administer regulations associated with Personal Protective
Andrew Novick, Michael A. Lombardi, Demetrios Matsakis, John Clark
GPS-disciplined clocks (GPSDCs) are designed to optimize the accuracy and stability of their pulse-per-second (PPS) and frequency outputs by steering an internal oscillator to the timing solution from a GPS receiver based on the received satellite signals
Sofia Sotiriadou, Eleftheria Ntonti, Danai Velliadou, Konstantinos D. Antoniadis, Marc Assael, Marcia L. Huber
We present a wide-ranging correlation expressed in terms of temperature and density for the viscosity of ethanol based on critically evaluated experimental data. The correlation is designed to be used with an existing equation of state from the triple
Annually since 1997, the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) provides a report to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) summarizing federal agency use of government unique standards (GUS) used in lieu of voluntary consensus standards (VCS) during the
Digital Twin has become an important technology for advanced manufacturing. However, to ensure that digital twins provide valuable decision support, the results generated by the digital twins must be trustworthy for real manufacturing systems. Model