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Samuel Manzello, Richard Gann, S R. Kukuck, Kuldeep Prasad, Walter W. Jones
Two gypsum wall assemblies were exposed to intense real-scale compartment fires, from the time of ignition to beyond flashover. The construction of each assembly (2.44 m by 2.44 m) was identical, with the exception that one of the wall assemblies was
William L. Grosshandler, Jason D. Averill, Thomas Cleary, D W. Weinert
Sensing technologies and their application to detecting fires in buildings continue to evolve, and recent advances are summarized in this article. Work being conducted at NIST on characterizing smoke and on bench-scale evaluation of multi-element detectors
William D. Davis, Walter W. Jones, David Holmberg, K A. Reed
This paper identifies building and building related information that would be useful to first responders (fire, police, EMS) and discusses examples of how the information might be displayed based on a first responder workshop held at NIST in May 2004. The
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) led reconnaissance to assess the performance of physical structures during Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita. This paper summarizes 1) the major findings of the NIST-led reconnaissance team, 2)
Interface wear behavior and its effects on frictional sliding shear resistance in fiber-reinforced ceramics was studied using a SiC fiber (SCS-6) - Al 20 3 matrix composite. Thin specimen pushout tests were performed and the wear behavior of the protruded
To control the Newton-Raphson solution of a nonlinear algebraic system, a descent method forces each step to reduce some norm of the residual errors. This prevents divergence, but risks stagnation in flat regions of the norm. Employing a family of cost
V S. Nagarajan, S Jahanmir, B Hockey, Victoria Thompson
The effect of microstructure on the wear mechanisms of glass-ceramics and resin composites was studied. Wear tests on both types of materials were conducted using a pin-on-disk apparatus. Wear of glass-ceramics increased with increasing mica platelet
Takashi Kashiwagi, Jeffrey Fagan, Keith Yamamoto, A N. Heckert, Stefan D. Leigh, Jan Obrzut, F Du, Sheng Lin-Gibson, Minfang Mu, K Winey, R Haggenmueller, Jack F. Douglas
Six PMMA/SWNT(0.5 wt%) nanocomposite samples intended to have different dispersion levels were prepared by the coagulation method using six different concentrations of SWNTs in DMF from 0.05 mg/ml to 1.2 mg/ml. The morphology of the samples was determined
A brief description of the scientific program of the 1997 Materials Research Society annual meeting which took place in Boston Copley Square from November 31 to December 5, 1997 is given.
The Building and Fire Research Laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, in cooperation with the Fully Integrated and Automated Technology (FIATECH) consortium, sponsored a workshop on data exchange standards at the construction job
A round-robin to measure the thermal conductivity (k) of SIQ^2^ thin films has taken place under the Versailles Project on Advanced Materials and Standards (VAMAS). Films with nominal thickness of 50 nm, 100 nm, 200 nm, and 500 nm, produced by oxidation of
A series of tragic events in the United States over the past decade, punctuated by the collapse of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, has exposed the vulnerability of public buildings to uncontrolled fires, explosions, and biological attack
This report describes the results of a brain storming session conducted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology s Building and Fire Research Laboratory. The session was held as part of the Fourth International Workshop Structures in Fire (SiF
The tests reported herein were intended to gain information on how manufactured home shear walls perform under extreme loads. The specimens tested represent sections from a typical manufactured home. The test results will be used for analytical modeling
Traditional air-handling unit (AHU) control systems link the position of the exhaust air damper, recirculation air damper, and outdoor air damper. Laboratory and field tests on variable-air-volume (VAV) AHU's that use a volume matching to control the
This paper presents an analytical assessment of the robustness of concrete deck-steel beam composite floor systems with shear connectors under the assumption that an interior column has been removed. The study provides an insight into the behavior and
Winnie Wong-Ng, Lawrence P. Cook, Anthony J. Kearsley, A R. Roosen
Three types of liquids were found in the BSCCO system: transient, metastable, and stable liquids. The roles of these liquids are discussed with examples, including the role of metastable liquid in the formation of the (Bi,Pb)-2223 phase, applications of
This paper presents an improved method for the design of steel structures that can save material and energy embodied therein while maintaining wind-resisting capacity, or substantially increase structural capacity with only modest or no increase in
This contribution is a chapter for a manual on petrographic analysis of concrete. It adds new material on the application of scanning electron microscopy to microstructural investigations of hardened portland cement concretes. Following the manual form
At least three different physics based approaches to fire dynamics simulations have evolved over the years; lumped parameter or ''zone models'', computational fluid dynamics models based on classical trubulence modeling techniques, and large eddy
At least three different physics based approaches to fire dynamicssimulations have evolved over the years; lumped parameter or ''zone models'',computational fluid dynamics models based on classical turbulence modelingtechniques, and large eddy simulations
Simulation of the effects of severe fires on the structural integrity of builings requires a close coupling between the gas phase energy release andtransport phenomena and the stress analysis in the load bearing materials. The connection between the two is
First principles based molecular dynamics simulations were performed on a 40^3^ unit cell system of stoichiometry Pb(Sc 1/2Nb 1/2)O 3 (PSN). To imitate a realistic relaxor ferroelectric texture, the chemical microstructure was subdivided into 80 regions of