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Relating Laboratory and Outdoor Exposures of Acrylic Melamine Coatings: I. Cumulative Damage Model and Laboratory Exposure Apparatus

January 1, 2002
Author(s)
Jonathan W. Martin, Tinh Nguyen, E Byrd, E Embree, B Dickens
… predicting the service life of polymeric materials exposed in the laboratory and field. The apparatus was designed to independently and precisely monitor and control in both space and time the three primary weathering factors … causing polymeric materials to degrade when exposed in the field. These factors include temperature, relative …

Validation of Multizone IAQ Modeling of Residential-Scale Buildings: A Review

January 1, 2001
Author(s)
Steven J. Emmerich
… to analytical verification and inter-model comparisons. In most reports, experimental data were compared to … and predictions. Where sufficient data were available in the literature, additional statistical analyses have been … effort can be considered to be complete due to limitations in scope, inadequate detail describing experimental and/or …

Wind-Induced Peak Bending Moments in Low-Rise Building Frames

August 1, 2000
Author(s)
M Gioffre, Mircea Grigoriu, M Kasperski, Emil Simiu
… representing fluctuating internal forces induced by wind in low-rise building frames. The procedure is designed for inclusion in computer programs that use surface pressure data bases to obtain peak internal forces in frames. In general, the processes of interest are …

Retrofit of Pre-Northridge Moment-Resisting Connections

April 1, 2000
Author(s)
S A. Civjan, M D. Engelhardt, John L. Gross
… retrofit when the existing low toughness welds were left in place. Somewhat improved performance was observed when the … existing low toughness beam flange groove welds were left in place. The presence of the composite slab appeared to help prevent fracture of the existing top flange weld in the haunch retrofit. This paper provides a summary of the …

A Unified Theory of Deterministic and Noise-Induced Transitions: Melnikov Processes and Their Application in Engineering, Physics and Neuroscience

February 1, 2000
Author(s)
Emil Simiu
… and stochastic excitations play similar roles in the promotion of chaos, meaning that stochastic systems … criteria guaranteeing the non-occurrence of transitions in systems excited by bounded processes; upper bounds for the … transitions can occur during a specified time interval in systems excited by unbounded processes; and assessments of …

A Modular Architecture for STEP

December 1, 1999
Author(s)
Allison Barnard Feeney, David M. Price
… This paper presents the current direction in the architecture of STEP (STandard for the Exchange of … data exchange, information technology standards, ISO 10303, modular architecture, …

Nondestructive Techniques to Investigate Corrosion Status in Concrete Structures

August 1, 1999
Author(s)
Nicholas J. Carino
… A critical step in selecting the most appropriate repair strategy for a … it is prudent to involve personnel who are experienced in the corrosion of steel in concrete. The corrosion engineer may employ a variety of … Workshop on Corrosion Protection in Concrete Repair …

Guide and Criteria for Training FEMP-Qualified Life-Cycle Cost Instructors

September 1, 1998
Author(s)
S Fuller
… to promote cost-effective energy and water conservation in Federal buildings. The guide gives an overview of the NIST … will receive from the NIST Office of Applied Economics in support of any workshops they may conduct. The guide also … NIST LCC workshop and gives instruction to aide candidates in preparing lectures for the qualifying review conducted by …

Summary of the Structural Performance of Single-Family, Wood-Frame Housing

September 1, 1998
Author(s)
Charles W. Yancey, Geraldine Cheok, Fahim H. Sadek, B Mohraz
… houses is presented. The performance of these structures in selected earthquakes and hurricanes is summarized. In general, wood-frame houses performed well with relatively … and dynamic test procedures: however, the wide variation in test procedures for cyclic and dynamic tests points to a …

Auditory Nerve Fiber Modeling: A Stochastic Melnikov Approach.

May 1, 1998
Author(s)
Marek Franaszek, Emil Simiu
… that are largest for excitation frequencies contained in a relatively narrow best interval; for frequencies outside … Second, white or nearly white noise excitation results in multimodal interspike interval histograms. These features … on response patterns for excitation by two harmonics in the presence of spontaneous activity. The Melnikov …

Hybrid Reinforced Precast Frame for Seismic Regions

March 1, 1997
Author(s)
J Stanton, William C. Stone, Geraldine S. Cheok
… is equal or superior to that of a conventional cast-in-place moment frame. Design criteria and code implications … precast concrete, bilinear elastic, building technology, earthquakes, frame, hybrid, post-tensioned, …

Wind Loading Codification in the Americas: Fundamentals for a Renewal

Author(s)
Emil Simiu
… of current wind engineering practices and their reflection in codes and standards reveals the existence of areas in which substantial progress needs to be made and are now … from the points of view of both form and substance. In particular, low-rise building aerodynamics need serious …

Results of the 1999 Topic Detection and Tracking Evaluation in Mandarin and English

January 1, 2000
Author(s)
Jonathan G. Fiscus, G R. Doddington
… The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) administered the second open evaluation of Topic Detection and Tracking (TDT) technologies in 1999. The TDT project supports development of technologies … news stories. The program leverages expertise in core technologies, Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), …

Applications of SEM Monte Carlo Modeling to Geometry Determination in Single-Crystal Silicon Test Patterns

May 1, 2000
Author(s)
John S. Villarrubia, Andras Vladar, J R. Lowney, Samuel N. Jones, Michael T. Postek
… the distance between inherently dissimilar edges. Even in the simplest imaginable case, an ideal line of rectangular … are, rather, mirror images of one another. Any error, Dx, in the assignment of one edge is mirrored (-Dx) on the other edge, resulting in twice the error when the positions are subtracted to …

Smart and Secure Cities and Communities

October 15, 2018
Author(s)
Sokwoo Rhee, Scott Tousley
… (GCTC) program led by National Institute of Standards and Technology has successfully nurtured hundreds of projects led by municipal governments and technology providers over the past years with the goal to … and Technology Directorate has joined forces with NIST in the 2018 round of GCTC to encourage smart cities and …
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