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Building Design Considerations to Support Immediate Occupancy Performance Objectives

June 16, 2019
Author(s)
Siamak Sattar, Christopher Segura, Katherine Johnson, Therese P. McAllister, Steven McCabe
… hazards, the U.S. Senate tasked the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) with identifying research … with cooperative efforts among researchers, engineers, standards and code officials, and community stakeholders …

A Reference Material for Evaluation of Cs-137 Radiochronometric Measurements

August 16, 2018
Author(s)
Kevin B. Lavelle, Richard Essex, Jeffrey T. Cessna, Kevin P. Carney, Cole R. Hexel
A new nuclear forensic reference material has been characterized as a standard for radiochronometric determination of the model purification date for 137Cs sources. The purification date of a radioactive source is a potentially diagnostic nuclear forensic

A Methodology for Estimating Seismic Retrofit Costs

September 28, 2017
Author(s)
Juan Fung, David Butry, Siamak Sattar, Steven McCabe
Presidential Executive Order 13717 (EO 13717), Establishing a Federal Earthquake Risk Management Standard, encourages federal agencies to "enhance resilience...[to] future earthquakes" by evaluating and retrofitting existing federal buildings based on

Measuring Temperature in Emission Testing Micro-chambers

October 24, 2016
Author(s)
Dustin G. Poppendieck, Edwin Guillermo, Havishk Tripathi
ASTM subcommittee D22.05 on Indoor Air is working to finalize WK40293: Standard Test Method for Estimating Chemical Emissions from Spray Polyurethane Foam (SPF) Insulation Using Micro-Scale Environmental Test Chambers. One issue in WK40293 is determining

Movement on Stairs During Building Evacuations

September 25, 2014
Author(s)
Erica D. Kuligowski, Richard D. Peacock, Paul Reneke, Emily A. Wiess, Jason Averill, Robert Hagwood, Enrico Ronchi, Bryan Hoskins, Michael Spearpoint
… the Engineering Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been collecting stairwell … and develop a technical foundation for future codes and standards requirements. NIST has collected fire drill …

Community Resilience: The Role of the Built Environment

June 27, 2014
Author(s)
Therese P. McAllister
… has established a research program to improve guidance, standards, and tools that supports community resilience … level, and a scientific foundation for developing improved standards, codes, guidelines, and tools to enhance community …

Differentiation and characterization of isotopically modified silver nanoparticles in aqueous media using asymmetric-flow field flow fractionation coupled to optical detection and mass spectrometry

December 10, 2012
Author(s)
Julien C. Gigault, Vincent A. Hackley
The principal objective of this work was to develop and demonstrate a new methodology for silver nanoparticle (AgNP) detection and characterization based on asymmetric-flow field flow fractionation (A4F) coupled to multiple detectors and using stable
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