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Structural Performance of Nuclear Power Plant Concrete Structures Affected by Alkali-Silica Reaction (ASR). Task 3: Assessing Cyclic Performance of ASR-Affected Concrete Shear Walls

September 27, 2021
Author(s)
Jonathan Weigand, Fahim H. Sadek, Travis Thonstad, Sorin Marcu, Rudy Villegas, Long Phan, Adam L. Pintar
… conducted at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the sponsorship of the U.S. Nuclear … and create internal expansive forces that cause cracking in concrete, and may result in degradation of engineering properties and structural …

On the Benefits of Whole-building IAQ, Ventilation, Infiltration, and Energy Analysis Using Co-simulation between CONTAM and EnergyPlus

September 13, 2021
Author(s)
William Stuart Dols, Chad Milando, Lisa Ng, Steven Emmerich, Jyrteanna Teo
… decades. Until recently, these tools were developed in isolation of one another. For example, the whole-building … is developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the whole-building energy analysis … of co-simulation to address the effects of variations in building typology and ventilation system performance on …

Validation Capabilities of the NIST Campus Power System to Evaluate Distributed Control of Grid-Edge Distributed Energy Resources

August 11, 2021
Author(s)
Dhananjay Anand, Md Amimul Ehsan, Collin Freiheit, Thomas C. Linn, Tzong Hao Chen
… need this coordi-nated control to regulate power voltage, in real- time, to meet fast-changing power demands,especially … of the grid, or domains. NIST offers such a paradigm in itsSmart Grid Framework 4.0.In going forward, industry has concerns which must be …

Open port sampling interface mass spectrometry of wipe-based explosives, oxidizers, and narcotics for trace contraband detection

July 19, 2021
Author(s)
Thomas P. Forbes, Jeffrey Lawrence, Changtong Hao, J Greg Gillen
… to inorganic, with preferential ionization pathways in both negative and positive mode operation. Nonvolatile inorganic oxidizers present in homemade fuel-oxidizer mixtures, pyrotechnics, and … thermal desorption-based technologies. Developments in solid–liquid extraction techniques, specifically, open …

Implementation and Evaluation of a WLAN IEEE 802.11ay Model in Network Simulator ns-3

June 23, 2021
Author(s)
Hany Assasa, Nina Grosheva, Tanguy Ropitault, Steve Blandino, Nada T. Golmie, Joerg Widmer
… to design the next generation wireless standard in the 60 GHz band, the so-called IEEE 802.11ay. Build upon … due to the scarcity/costs of real IEEE 802.11ay test-beds. In this paper,we present our implementation of the IEEE 802.11ay standard in the network simulator ns-3. Our implementation captures …

CONTAM RESULTS EXPORT TOOL

May 5, 2021
Author(s)
Brian Polidoro, Lisa Ng, William Stuart Dols
… developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Since CONTAM simulation files are binary … but adds the ability to export infiltration rates for use in EnergyPlus, a building energy simulation program. This … EnergyPlus: zone-specific air change rates:" are described in a separate document by Polidoro et al. (2015). The results …

A Comparison of Measurement Methods for Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizers

February 26, 2021
Author(s)
Mary Bedner, Jacolin Murray, Aaron A. Urbas, William A. MacCrehan, Walter Brent Wilson
… measurements, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) developed and evaluated four instrumental … measurement approaches for their applicability in measuring ethanol and impurities in 72 hand sanitizers representing a range of brands and …

Foundational PNT Profile: Applying the Cyber Security Framework for the Responsible Use of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Services

February 11, 2021
Author(s)
Jim McCarthy, Karen Reczek, Michael Bartock, Ya-Shian Li-Baboud, Suzanne Lightman, Arthur Scholz, Theresa Suloway, Doug Northrip, Joesph Brule
… impacts on much of the nation's critical infrastructure. In a government wide effort to mitigate these impacts, … February 12, 2020. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as part of the Department of Commerce (DoC), produced this PNT Profile in response to Sec.4 Implementation (a), as detailed in the …

Learning from Hurricane Maria's Impacts on Puerto Rico: A Progress Report

January 19, 2021
Author(s)
Joseph Main, Maria K. Dillard, Erica D. Kuligowski, Benjamin Davis, Jazalyn D. Dukes, Kenneth W. Harrison, Jennifer Helgeson, Katherine J. Johnson, Marc L. Levitan, Judith Mitrani-Reiser, Scott J. Weaver, DongHun Yeo, Luis D. Bermudez, Joel Cline, Thomas Kirsch
… business, and more. To better understand failures in buildings and infrastructure as well as emergency … how we can prevent and mitigate such extensive failures in the future - in 2018 the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) launched a multi-year effort. The NIST …

A low-swelling, polymeric mixed conductor operating in aqueous electrolytes

November 30, 2020
Author(s)
Lee Richter, Tommaso Nicolini, Jokubas Surgailis, Achileas Savva, Guillaume Wantz, Olivier Dautel, Georges Hadiziioannou, Natalie Stingelin
… Organic mixed conductors find use in batteries, bioelectronics technologies, neuromorphic … Although ion dynamics may be enhanced in expanded networks, these volumetric changes can have … able to transport ions and electrons/holes, as tested in electrochemical absorption spectroscopy and organic …

Certification of Standard Reference Material(R) 1993 / ERM(R)-FD306 Zeta Potential - Colloidal Silica (Nominal Mass Fraction 2.2 %)

November 24, 2020
Author(s)
Yannic Ramaye, Vikram Kestens, J. Charoud-Got, S. Mazoua, G. Auclair, Tae Joon Cho, Blaza Toman, Vincent A. Hackley, T. Linsinger
… of SRM 1993/ERM-FD306, silica particles suspended in a borate buffer, certified for electrophoretic mobility … was produced following ISO 17034:2016 and is certified in accordance with ISO Guide 35:2017. The certified reference … (Belgium) and the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg (USA). The CRM was produced …

High-density polyethylene - an inert additive with stabilizing effects on organic field-effect transistors

September 11, 2020
Author(s)
Alberto Scaccabarozzi, James Basham, Liyang Yu, Paul Westcott, Weimin Zhang, Aram Amassian, Iain McCulloch, Mario Caironi, David J. Gundlach, Natalie Stingelin
… the semicrystalline high- density polyethylene (HDPE) in combination with p-type and n-type organic semiconductors … transistors of notably improved device stability and, in some scenarios, improved device performance. We observe, … slopes and drastically reduced bias-stress effects in devices fabricated with a p- type diketopyrrolopyrrole …

NIST Transportable Tunable UV Laser Irradiance Facility for Water Pathogen Inactivation

July 21, 2020
Author(s)
Thomas C. Larason
… or dose (mJ/cm2) suitable for irradiating water samples in Petri dishes over the wavelength range of 210 nm to 300 nm … was developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The TTUV facility, consisting of a 1 kHz … necessary to uniformly irradiance a water sample, was used in a microbiology laboratory to dose drinking water pathogens …

Large-Scale Structure-Fire Interaction: National Fire Research Laboratory Commissioning Test, Experiment and Modeling

June 1, 2020
Author(s)
Randall J. McDermott, Glenn P. Forney, Matthew S. Hoehler, Matthew F. Bundy, Lisa Y. Choe, Chao Zhang
… (NFRL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA [1]. The midspan section of a … m below the bottom flange of the beam. The purple-blue hue in the photo is caused by high-intensity, near- ultraviolet …

Quantum entanglement between an atom and a molecule

May 20, 2020
Author(s)
Yiheng Lin, David Leibrandt, Dietrich Leibfried, Chin-wen Chou
… broad range of physical systems paves the way for advances in various aspects of science and technology, such as stringent tests of fundamental physics, … real-world applications. Quantum controlled molecules in particular can transduce quantum information across a wide …

Collapse Risk of Steel Special Moment Frames per FEMA P695

February 5, 2020
Author(s)
Matthew S. Speicher, Jazalyn D. Dukes, Kevin K. Wong
… to assess existing buildings and to design new buildings. In 2015, the National Institute of Standards and Technology completed a study of the relationship between the methodologies used in ASCE 41 and those used in traditional prescriptive design …

Green Button Data-Access Model for Smart Cities

December 1, 2019
Author(s)
Cuong Nguyen, Jeremy J. Roberts
… roll-out of the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology and U.S. Department of Energy Green Button … solutions rely heavily on the availability of data in order to provide situational awareness as well as to … than no data at all. We would like to present a case study in Green Button and the steps we took to ensure data security …

Exfoliated transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) nanosheets for supercapacitor and sodium ion battery applications

August 14, 2019
Author(s)
Jonathan Turley, Santanu Mukherjee, Elisabeth Mansfield, Jason Holm, Lamuel David, Gurpreet Singh
… are the Na-ion supercapacitors and batteries, motivated in part because of the similar nature and electrochemistry of … of 2D layered TMD materials. Supercapacitor applications in aqueous media have indicated the predominance of the sulfide (MoS2), both in terms of providing specific capacitance and cycling …

Interlaboratory comparison of nanoparticle size measurements between NMIJ and NIST using two different types of dynamic light scattering instruments

August 6, 2019
Author(s)
Kayori Takahashi, John A. Kramar, Natalia Farkas, Keiji Takahata, Ichiko Misumi, Kentaro Sugawara, Satoshi Gonda, Kensei Ehara
… the other owned by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) of the fixed-angle type. The mean particle … the scattering angle and particle concentration is crucial in intra-method comparisons of mean particle sizes obtained …

Sensitivity Analysis Affecting the Calibration of Heat-Flow-Meter Apparatus

July 1, 2019
Author(s)
Robert R. Zarr, Sergio A. Carvajal, James J. Filliben
… response of two commercial heat-flow-meter apparatus in compliance with ASTM Test Method C 518 are presented. The apparatus ranged in plate size from 305 mm by 305 mm to 610 mm by 610 mm and … Board, issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. A major objective of the study is to rank the …

Assessing form-dependent optical scattering at vacuum- and extreme-ultraviolet wavelengths off nanostructures with two-dimensional periodicity

June 24, 2019
Author(s)
Bryan M. Barnes, Mark Alexander Henn, Martin Y. Sohn, Hui Zhou, Richard M. Silver
… Simulations are performed for two geometries as found in nanoelectronics, both as ideal periodic arrays and with a … scattering intensity ratios decrease with wavelength in the DUV and VUV, but dramatically increase for the 47 nm … faults, which is advantageous for defect inspection in nanoelectronics, with its optimal polarization axis …

Analysis of Different Computational Techniques for Calculating the Polarizability Tensors of Stem Cells with Realistic Three-Dimensional Morphologies

June 21, 2019
Author(s)
Edward Garboczi, Jack Douglas, Beatriz Pazmino, Ahmed M. Hassan, Somen Baidya
… Recent advances in synthetic biomaterial microenvironment design has enabled researchers to mimic the natural in vivo environment of the cell and, therefore, quantify the … cells. Recently, the National Institute of Standards and Technology has developed a database of three-dimensional (3D) …
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