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VIRTUAL FACTORY REVISITED FOR MANUFACTURING DATA ANALYTICS

December 11, 2014
Author(s)
Sanjay Jain, Guodong Shao
Development of a data analytics application for manufacturing is best when tested with large sets of data. It is usually difficult for application developers to find access to real manufacturing data streams for testing new data analytics applications

A self-calibrating optomechanical force sensor with femtonewton resolution

December 10, 2014
Author(s)
John T. Melcher, Julian Stirling, Felipe Guzman, Jon R. Pratt, Gordon A. Shaw
We report the development of an ultrasensitive optomechanical sensor designed to improve the accuracy and precision of force measurements with atomic force microscopy. The sensors achieve quality factors of 4.3x10^6 (a 100-fold improvement over quartz

Computing elastic moduli on 3-D X-ray computed tomography image stacks

December 10, 2014
Author(s)
Edward Garboczi, Volodymyr Kushch
A common numerical task is to compute the effective elastic properties of a random composite material based on its microstructure by operating on a 3D digital image of the microstructure obtained via X-ray computed tomography (CT). The 3-D image is usually

Experimental Bounds on Classical Random Field Theories

December 10, 2014
Author(s)
Joffrey K. Peters, Sergey V. Polyakov, Jingyun Fan, Alan L. Migdall
Alternative theories to quantum mechanics motivate important fundamental tests of our understanding and description of the smallest physical systems. Here we place experimental limits on those classical field theories which result in power-dependent

Firebrand Accumulation in Front of Structures in Large Outdoor Fires

December 10, 2014
Author(s)
Samuel L. Manzello, Sayaka Suzuki
The production of firebrands contributes to the spread of disastrous large outdoor fires. As structures are exposed to wind, stagnation planes are produced around structures. In a prior scoping study, the authors demonstrated that firebrands may accumulate

Ignition of Mulch beds exposed to firebrand showers

December 10, 2014
Author(s)
Samuel L. Manzello, Sayaka Suzuki
Mulch is commonly found near buildings and is a useful surrogate to study various fuels that may be present near buildings. To this end, mulch beds were exposed to continuous, wind-driven firebrand showers. These experiments build on our prior work where

Sample Allocation for Multiple Attribute Selection Problems

December 10, 2014
Author(s)
Dennis D. Leber, Jeffery W. Herrmann
Prior to making a multiple attribute selection decision, a decision-maker may collect information to estimate the value of each attribute for each alternative. In this work, we consider a fixed experimental sample budget and address the problem of how best

Biomass Particle Models with Realistic Morphology and Resolved Microstructure for Simulations of Intraparticle Transport Phenomena

December 9, 2014
Author(s)
Peter Ciesielski, Michael F. Crowley, M R. Nimlos, Aric Sanders, Gavin Wiggins, Bryon Donohoe
Biomass exhibits a complex microstructure of directional pores that can vary substantially between species of origin. However, models of biomass particles employed in simulations of conversion processes typically employ over-simplified geometry such as

Computing confidence intervals for common IR measures

December 9, 2014
Author(s)
Ian M. Soboroff
Confidence intervals quantify the uncertainty in an average and o↵er a robust alternative to hypothesis testing. We measure the performance of standard and bootstrapped con- fidence intervals on a number of common IR measures using several TREC and NTCIR

Microwave Determination of the Volume of a Pressure Vessel

December 9, 2014
Author(s)
Michael R. Moldover, James W. Schmidt, Keith A. Gillis, James B. Mehl, John D. Wright
Using microwave techniques that are scalable to very large volumes, we measured the interior volume of a 0.3 m 3, commercially-manufactured, pressure vessel with an uncertainty of 0.05 %, as confirmed by independent, more-accurate, gas-expansion

Formalizing Software Bugs

December 8, 2014
Author(s)
Irena Bojanova
Knowing what makes a software systems vulnerable to attacks is critical, as software vulnerabilities hurt security, reliability, and availability of the system as a whole. In addition, understanding how an adversary operates is essential to effective cyber

Generation of bright phase-matched circularly-polarized extreme ultraviolet high harmonics

December 8, 2014
Author(s)
Justin M. Shaw, Patrik Grychtol, Dmitriy Zusin, Ronny J. Knut, Tenio Popmintchev, Hans T. Nembach, Avner Fleischer, Henry Kapteyn, Margaret Murnane, Ofer Kfir, Oren Cohen
Circularly-polarized extreme UV and X-ray radiation provides valuable access to the structural, electronic and magnetic properties of materials. To date, this capability was available only at large-scale X-ray free-electron lasers or synchrotrons. Here we

Improvements to NISTs Air Speed Calibration Service

December 8, 2014
Author(s)
Iosif I. Shinder, Michael R. Moldover, Christopher J. Crowley, Bernard J. Filla
We discuss five significant improvements to the Air Speed Calibration Service conducted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST): 1. Reduced-uncertainty calibration of the secondary standard [Laser Doppler Anemometer, (LDA)] using a

Polarization of Bi2Te3 Thin Film in a Floating-Gate Capacitor Structure

December 8, 2014
Author(s)
Hui H. Yuan, Kai Zhang, Haitao Li, Hao Zhu, John E. Bonevich, Helmut Baumgart, Curt A. Richter, Qiliang Li
Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor capacitors with Bi2Te3 thin film sandwiched and embedded inside the oxide layer have been fabricated and studied. The capacitors exhibit ferroelectric-like hysteresis which is a result of the robust, reversible polarization of

Recent Work Leading Toward a New Evaluation of Neutron Standards

December 8, 2014
Author(s)
Allan D. Carlson, V G. Pronyaev, R. Capote, G M. Hale, F. J. Hambsch, T Kawano, S. Kunieda, W Mannhart, R O. Nelson, D. Neudecker, P Schillebeeckx, S Simakov, P Talou, X Tao, D. L. Smith, W Wang, A. Wallner
A number of national cross section libraries are planning new versions of their libraries including ENDF/B and JEFF. The first step in producing these new libraries is evaluating the neutron standards. A new evaluation of the standards is now underway

Effective and Scalable Uncertainty Evaluation for Large-Scale Complex System Applications

December 7, 2014
Author(s)
Kevin L. Mills, James J. Filliben, Junfei Xie, Yan Wan, Yi Zhou, Yu Lei
Effective uncertainty evaluation is a critical step toward real-time and robust decision-making for complex systems in uncertain environments. A Multivariate Probabilistic Collocation Method (M-PCM) was developed to effectively evaluate system uncertainty
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