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Enviromental Concerns Facing the Ceramics Industry

February 19, 2017
Author(s)
Stephen W. Freiman
Over the past few years, there has been increased attention paid by ceramic manufacturers in the United States to environmental issues facing their businesses. In a recent survey of its members, the environment was identified as the primary issue facing

Establishing a World-Wide Unified Rockwell Hardness Scale Using Standard Diamond Indenters

February 19, 2017
Author(s)
S Desogus, A Germak, H Ishida, T Polzin, H Yang, Jun-Feng Song, Samuel Low, David J. Pitchure
Recently developed microform measurement techniques have reduced the measurement uncertainties in the geometry of Rockwell diamond indenters. It is now possible to establish standard grade Rockwell diamond indenters characterized by high geometry

Experts Evaluate Pulsed Laser Deposition Technology

February 19, 2017
Author(s)
John W. Hastie, D W. Bonnell, D Chrissey
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST, Gaithersburg, MD) and The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL, Washington, DC) jointly hosted a workshop entitled Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD) Technological Barriers: Research Needs and Opportunities

Extracting Two Parameters From a P2 Orientation Distribution

February 19, 2017
Author(s)
Curtis Meuse, Joseph B. Hubbard
Individual molecules are seldom identical. This poses a problem for optical spectroscopy. For instance, if molecular property distributions are not characterized, differences in the distribution of molecular properties between sample and standards are

Factors Affecting the Service Life of Seams of EPDM Roof Membranes

February 19, 2017
Author(s)
Walter J. Rossiter Jr, Jonathan W. Martin
A quarter century ago, a revolution occurred in the U.S. low-sloped roofing industry with the introduction of a number of new membrane products including elastomeric and thermoplastic polymeric membranes and polymer-modified bituminous membranes. Today

Federal Investigation of the Evacuation of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001

February 19, 2017
Author(s)
Jason D. Averill, Dennis S. Mileti, Richard D. Peacock, Erica D. Kuligowski, N Groner, Guylene Proulx, H Nelson
This paper presents the findings of the NIST World Trade Center Investigation describing the occupant evacuation of WTC 1 and WTC 2 on September 11, 2001. The egress system, including stairwells and elevators, is described along with the evacuation

Final Report for:EPA: LAG No. DW-13-93903501-0 Expanding a Tool for Predicting Chloride Diffusivity in Concrete So It Can Be Used by Manufacturers to Evaluate the Durability of Concrete Made With Blended Cements. Part I: Characterizing Blended Cement...

February 19, 2017
Author(s)
X Feng, Edward Garboczi, Jeffrey W. Bullard, Kenneth A. Snyder, Paul E. Stutzman, T Mason
This report summarizes a project that dealt with the characterization of a fly ash and fly-ash blended cement material, so that these could be incorporated into the Virtual Cement and Concrete Testing Laboratory (VCCTL) software. The information generated

Fire as a Building Load

February 19, 2017
Author(s)
Richard W. Bukowski
The concept of designing buildings to resist loads is fundamental to the design and regulatory process. Fire has traditionally been addressed differently because fires are difficult to describe in the same way as other building loads. This paper proposes a

Fire Endurance Testing of Floor Systems Effects of Scale and Restraint

February 19, 2017
Author(s)
John L. Gross
Three standard fire resistance tests (ASTM E 119) were conducted on a composite floor system to study the effects of 1) test restraint conditions, and 2) scale of the test. Two full-scale tests, 35 ft (10.7 m) span, and one half-scale test, 17 ft (5.2 m)

Fire Modeling Analysis: Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Office Building

February 19, 2017
Author(s)
D W. Stroup
This report describes results obtained from a fire protection engineering analysis of an historic government office building located in Washington, DC. The Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Office Building is a five story building constructed in the 1870 s to

Fire Structure Interface for the World Trade Center Towers

February 19, 2017
Author(s)
Kuldeep Prasad, Howard R. Baum
The collapse of the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001, resulting from a combination of aircraft impact damage and subsequent fires, was studied as part of the Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World Trade Center Disaster

First-Principles Effective Hamiltonians for PbZrO 3

February 19, 2017
Author(s)
Eric J. Cockayne
The phase transformation behavior and physical properties of the technologically important PbZr 1-xTi xO 3 (PZT) solid solution series are of great interest. For example, the large piezoelectric response of PZT (x = 0.45) makes this compound suitable for
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