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NIST Microform Calibration System for Rockwell Hardness Standardization

August 25, 2008
Author(s)
Jun-Feng Song, Samuel R. Low III, Xiaoyu A. Zheng
… In the uncertainty budget of Rockwell hardness tests, … standardization. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Microform Calibration System was developed … NIST Primary Standard Rockwell Indenter was established in 1995, by which nominally 300 standard reference material …

Residential Structure Separation Fire Experiments

August 1, 2008
Author(s)
Alexander Maranghides, Erik L. Johnsson
… with as little as 1.8 m (6 ft) of separation between them. In a recent full-scale laboratory experiment at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), it took less than 80 s for flames from a … walls to ignite a similar "house" 1.8 m (6 ft) away. In another experiment, involving the same type of structures, …

Wireless Sensor Networks as Part of a Web-Based Building Environmental Monitoring System

August 1, 2008
Author(s)
Won Suk Jang, William M. Healy, Miroslaw J. Skibniewski
… The presented research shows how advanced wireless sensor technology can be used by engineers to monitor conditions in and around buildings.  The objective is split into three … to process signals from sensors and transmit the data in a suitable format.  This task was accomplished through an …

Guide for the Use of the International System of Units (SI)

March 30, 2008
Author(s)
Ambler Thompson, Barry N. Taylor
… International System of Units (SI) usage as implemented in the 8th edition of the SI Brochure, incorporates a … and SI usage, and updates the bibliography. Some changes in format have also been made in an attempt to improve the … of the importance of the SI to both science and technology, NIST has over the years published documents to …

Pulsed Laser Deposition and Characterization of Hf-based High-k Dielectric Thin Films

October 26, 2007
Author(s)
Joseph C. Woicik, M A. Sahiner, Timothy Kurp, Jeffrey Serfass, Marc Aranguren
… (MOSFET), in the circuit create other physical challenges. The industry … constant are needed to replace the silicon dioxide in these gate regions. One of the candidates for this replacement is Hf-based oxides. In this project,we have used pulsed laser deposition (PLD) to …

Round-robin testing of carbon nanotubes using Novel and traditional nanometrology tools

August 26, 2007
Author(s)
John H. Lehman, Tom Campbell, Anne Dillon, Roop Mahajan
… Toward the end of contributing to improved rigor in carbon nanotube metrology, we present in this article a round-robin series of measurements on … under development at the National Institute of Standards & Technology, as well as more ?traditional? nanometrology …

Recent Developments of the HLPR Chair

June 15, 2007
Author(s)
Roger V. Bostelman, James S. Albus, Tommy Chang
… developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) within the Intelligent Systems Division … developments and autonomous control plans are described in this paper. …

Usability Testing of Ten-Print Fingerprint Capture

March 13, 2007
Author(s)
Mary Theofanos, Brian Stanton, Shahram Orandi, Ross J. Micheals, Nien F. Zhang
… the United States Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) program are migrating from a two print … with the ten slap fingerprint capture process. Thus, in addition to measuring the time necessary to acquire the 10 … are the frequency and nature of the errors that occur in this process? …

Toward a Computational Theory of Mind

December 29, 2006
Author(s)
James S. Albus
… Scientific knowledge of the brain and technology of intelligent systems have developed to a point … intelligent control systems. Both are hierarchical in structure and partitioned into behavior generating and … for perception and behavior.  The world model is used in perception for focusing attention, segmentation, grouping, …

Information Security Handbook: A Guide for Managers

December 1, 2006
Author(s)
Pauline Bowen, Joan Hash, Mark Wilson
… information security program elements to assist managers in understanding how to establish and implement an … Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-130. The material in this handbook can be referenced for general information on … security program. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Interagency Report (IR) 7298, Glossary of …

NIST Calibration Services for Water Flowmeters Water Flow Calibration Facility

August 1, 2006
Author(s)
Iosif I. Shinder, Iryna V. Marfenko
… Facility (WFCF) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). This facility has three parallel pipelines … provide water flowmeter calibration services as reported in [1] for the Calibration Service ID Number 18020C. The WFCF … and 1600 L/min. It measures flow by weighing the water in the 3700 kg tank during a measured time interval [ISO …

Temperature and Pressure Coefficients of Thomas 1 Ohm Resistors

August 1, 2006
Author(s)
George R. Jones Jr., Randolph Elmquist
… In preparing to move the precision 1 ohm measurement service to the new Advanced Measurement Laboratory (AML) in the spring of 2004, staff at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) first assembled a second precision 1 ohm …

A Novel High-Throughput Measurement Method for Determining the Elastic Moduli of Polymer Thin Films

July 17, 2006
Author(s)
Christopher M. Stafford, C Harrison
… Thin films are increasingly being used in technological applications involving dielec-tric coatings, … synthesize new materials for such applications and do so in progressively smaller quantities, there is a growing need … probe the mechanical properties of these materials not in the bulk state but rather in their application form of …

Quantum Key Distribution System Operating at Sifted-Key Rate over 4 Mbit/s

June 19, 2006
Author(s)
Xiao Tang, Lijun Ma, Alan Mink, Anastase Nakassis, Hai Xu, Barry J. Hershman, Joshua Bienfang, David H. Su, Ronald Boisvert, Charles W. Clark, Carl J. Williams
… has been developed at National Institute of Standard and Technology (NIST). The system can be operated at a sifted key …

NIST Inter-Comparison Exercise Program for Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDEs) in Marine Sediment: Description and Results of the 2004 Intercomparison Exercise

June 1, 2006
Author(s)
H M. Stapleton, Jennifer M. Lynch, Michele M. Schantz, John R. Kucklick, Stephen A. Wise
… In support of environmental monitoring measurement programs, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) conducts inter-laboratory comparison … the quality and comparability of their performance in measuring selected organic contaminants in environmental …

Free Space Optics Communication System Testing in Smoke and Fire Environments

April 1, 2006
Author(s)
Alexander Maranghides, William E. Mell, William D. Walton, Erik L. Johnsson, Nelson P. Bryner
… Homeland Security and Booz, Allen Hamilton are interested in quantifying the performance of FSO units. Several … were developed. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS), a … predictions were used to design fires smaller than those in the original scenarios that could produce the same smoke …

Characterizing Gaseous Air Cleaner Performance in the Field

March 20, 2006
Author(s)
Cynthia H. Reed, Steven J. Emmerich, Steven J. Nabinger
… better understand the performance of indoor air cleaners in buildings, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has completed a series of gaseous air … removal of decane with two different gaseous air cleaners in a single-zone test house. Due to the lack of standardized …

Global Structural Analysis of the Response of the World Trade Center Towers to Impact Damage and Fire. Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World Trade Center Disaster (NIST NCSTAR 1-6D)

December 1, 2005
Author(s)
Mehdi S. Zarghamee, Y Kitane, Omer O. Erbay, Therese P. McAllister, John L. Gross
… of the aircraft impact damage and the subsequent fires in the WTC towers with respect to structural stability and … WTC disaster by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The developed finite-element global models … the structural performance of the part of the buildings in and above the aircraft impact zone. These models captured …

Experiments and Modeling of Structural Steel Elements Exposed to a Fire. Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World Trade Center Disaster (NIST NCSTAR 1-5B) ***DRAFT for Public Comments***

September 1, 2005
Author(s)
Anthony P. Hamins, Alexander Maranghides, Kevin B. McGrattan, Erik L. Johnsson, Thomas J. Ohlemiller, Michelle K. Donnelly, Jiann C. Yang, George W. Mulholland, Kuldeep R. Prasad, S R. Kukuck, Robert Anleitner, Therese P. McAllister
… the fires and their impact on structural components in the World Trade Center (WTC) buildings on September 11, … a series of large-scale experiments that was conducted in the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Large Fire Laboratory from March 10 to …

Experiments and Modeling of Structural Steel Elements Exposed to Fire. Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World Trade Center Disaster (NIST NCSTAR 1-5B)

September 1, 2005
Author(s)
Anthony P. Hamins, Alexander Maranghides, Kevin B. McGrattan, Erik L. Johnsson, Thomas J. Ohlemiller, Michelle K. Donnelly, Jiann C. Yang, George W. Mulholland, Kuldeep R. Prasad, S R. Kukuck, Robert Anleitner, Therese P. McAllister
… the fires and their impact on structural components in the World Trade Center (WTC) buildings on September 11, … a series of large-scale experiments that was conducted in the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Large Fire Laboratory from March 10 to …

Global Structural Analysis of the Response of the World Trade Center Towers to Impact Damage and Fire. Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World Trade Center Disaster (NIST NCSTAR 1-6D) ***DRAFT for Public Comments***

September 1, 2005
Author(s)
Mehdi S. Zarghamee, Yasuo Kitane, Omer O. Erbay, Therese P. McAllister, John L. Gross
… of the aircraft impact damage and the subsequent fires in the WTC towers with respect to structural stability and … WTC disaster by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The developed finite-element global models … the structural performance of the part of the buildings in and above the aircraft impact zone. These models captured …

Uncertainties in Scaling Factors for ab Initio Vibrational Frequencies

September 1, 2005
Author(s)
Karl K. Irikura, Russell D. Johnson III, Raghu N. Kacker
… have only two significant digits. The uncertainties in the scaling factors lead to corresponding uncertainties in predicted vibrational frequencies. The proposed method for … maintained by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, which includes more than 3939 independent …
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