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Post-Construction Fires Prior to September 11, 2001. Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World Trade Center Disaster (NIST NCSTAR 1-4A) ***DRAFT for Public Comments***

September 1, 2005
Author(s)
Erica D. Kuligowski, D D. Evans
… Fires occurred in World Trade Center (WTC) I, 2, and 7 prior to September … 1. This report documents the facts of significant fires in the buildings after first occupancy as they relate to the … provided to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), 47 fires occurred in WTC 1, 2, and 7 that …

Structural Fire Response and Probable Collapse Sequence of the World Trade Center Towers. Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World Trade Center Disaster (NIST NCSTAR 1-6) ***DRAFT for Public Comments***

September 1, 2005
Author(s)
John L. Gross, Therese P. McAllister
… main objectives of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) investigation of the collapse of the World … towers collapsed. Events that played a significant role in the structural performance of the towers were the aircraft … fire protection applied to the steel structural components in the WTC towers was investigated to provide information on …

Building Stones of America: Over 50 Years of the NIST Stone Test Wall.

October 1, 2004
Author(s)
Paul E. Stutzman
… In 1880, the Census Office and the National Museum in Washington, D.C., conducted a study of building stones of … site at NBS, now the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Md. Today, the wall …

Spectral Irradiance and Radiance Responsivity Calibrations Using Uniform Sources (SIRCUS) Facility at NIST

January 1, 2004
Author(s)
Steven W. Brown, George P. Eppeldauer, Joseph P. Rice, Jun Zhang, Keith R. Lykke
… responsivity at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) using a lamp-monochromator system to tune … the excitation source. Silicon detectors can be calibrated in the visible spectral region with uncertainties at the 0.1 … instrument s spectral irradiance or radiance responsivity. In addition, the uncertainties are even larger in the UV and …

Space-Scale Analysis of Line Edge Roughness on 193 nm Lithography Test Structures

October 1, 2003
Author(s)
Ndubuisi G. Orji, Jayaraman Raja, Theodore V. Vorburger, Xiaohong Gu
… critical dimension (CD) variation. The International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS) specifies an LER … nm alternating phase-shift reticle containing structures in clear field and dark field tones. The structure includes … others. Various types of AFM configurations are being used in order to determine optimum measurement conditions. This …

Multihop Sensor Network Design for Wideband Communications

August 1, 2003
Author(s)
Hamid Gharavi, K Ban
… of networks; infrastructure (master-and-slave) and ad-hoc. In this architecture, the participating Slave Nodes (SNs) in each cluster (e.g., cell) communicate with each other via their respective Master Nodes (MNs) in an infrastructure mode. In contrast to traditional …

Development of IAQ Model Input Databases: Volatile Organic Compound Source Emission Rates.

July 23, 2003
Author(s)
Cynthia H. Reed, Brian Polidoro, William Stuart Dols
… and personal exposures for a given indoor environment. In order to generate such results, these models typically … removal rates. Many of the required data are available in the literature; however, this information has generally … more efficient, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has begun an effort to compile model input …

A Survey of Design ? Analysis Integration Issues

June 1, 2003
Author(s)
Greg Mocko, Steven J. Fenves
… of next-generation product development tools, specifically in the area of design-analysis integration. The report is … First, engineering design is presented and discussed in terms of the product data that are generated during the … design process and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Core Product Model (CPM), a correspondence …

Test Facility for Determining the Seasonal Performance of Residential Fuel Cell Systems

June 1, 2003
Author(s)
Mark W. Davis, Arthur H. Fanney
… The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has designed andconstructed a test facility … a consumer-oriented performance rating to guide consumers in their economic decisions. NIST's history of developing … rating methodologies for residential appliances will aid in the development of a similar test procedure and rating …

Face Recognition Vendor Test 2002: Evaluation Report

March 1, 2003
Author(s)
P J. Phillips, Patrick J. Grother, Ross J. Micheals, D M. Blackburn, Elham Tabassi, M Bone
… Vendor Test (FRVT) 2002 is an independently administered technology evaluation of mature face recognition systems. … real world applications. Ten commercial firms participated in FRVT 2002. FRVT 2002 computed performance statistics on an … a function of database size, 2) estimated the variability in performance for different groups of people, 3) …

Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer Between Donor-Acceptor Pair on Two Oligonucleotides Hybridized Adjacently to a DNA Template

January 1, 2003
Author(s)
Lili Wang, Adolfas K. Gaigalas, J L. Blasic, Marcia J. Holden, David T. Gallagher, R Pires
… of fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) in a set of hybridized DNA constructs. The two fluorophores … end of one oligonucleotide and rhodamine at the 5' end or in the middle of another nucleotide. For FRET, both … for quantitative real-time PCR with the LightCycler technology, where a 1 to 5 base separation between donor and …

Scale-Space Analysis of Line Edge Roughness on 193 nm Lithography Test Structures

January 1, 2003
Author(s)
Ndubuisi G. Orji, Theodore V. Vorburger, Xiaohong Gu, Jayaraman Raja
… critical dimension (CD) variation. The International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS) specifies an LER … nm alternating phase-shift reticle containing structures in clear field and dark field tones. The structure includes … others. Various types of AFM configurations are being used in order to determine optimum measurement conditions. This …

Numerical Path-Integration Calculation of Transport Properties of Star Polymers and theta-DLA Aggregates

December 1, 2002
Author(s)
M Mansfield, Jack F. Douglas
… and other transport properties) is staraightforward in principle, the accurate evaluation of these quantities for … of general shape is a problem of classic difficulty. In the present paper, we illustrate a recently developed … geometries where exact results are known is described in a previous paper. Here we calculate the electrostatic …

Simulation of the Dynamics of a Fire in a One-Story Restaurant--Texas, February 14, 2000

October 1, 2002
Author(s)
R Vettori, Daniel M. Madrzykowski, William D. Walton
… calculations using the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) that were … thermal conditions that may have occurred during a fire in a one-story restaurant on February 14, 2000 in Texas.A FDS model scenario was developed that represented …

Phase-Coherent Synthesis of Optical Frequencies and Waveforms

June 1, 2002
Author(s)
Jun Ye, Steven T. Cundiff, S M. Foreman, T M. Fortier, John L. Hall, K W. Holman, D J. Jones, J D. Jost, H C. Kapteyn, K A. Leeuwen, L -. Ma, M M. Murnane, J L. Peng, R K. Shelton
… comb has produced remarkable and unexpected progress in both areas of optical-frequency metrology and ultrafast … optical pulses has recently been realized. This advance in femtosecond technology isimportant for both extreme non-linear optics and …

Development of a Hazard-Based Method for Evaluating the Fire Safety of Passenger Trains (NISTIR 6588)

October 14, 2001
Author(s)
Richard W. Bukowski, Richard D. Peacock, Paul A. Reneke, Jason D. Averill, S. H. Markos
… move toward performance codes, there has been interest in the application of fire hazard assessment to rail vehicles … with FRA funding, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Volpe National Transportation … the heat release and smoke production of actual materials in use were characterized in the Cone Calorimeter. Next, …

LADAR Sensing Applications for Construction

June 1, 2001
Author(s)
Geraldine S. Cheok, William C. Stone
… One potential breakthrough technology that stands to revolutionize construction … shift of the signal reflected from the natural objects in the scene. The resulting flood of raw data form a "cloud" of three dimensional points.In the land surveying and stake-out business, such point …

Special Ultrasonic Flowmeters for In-Situ Diagnosis of Swirl and Cross Flow

May 1, 2001
Author(s)
Tsyh Tyan Yeh, Pedro I. Espina
… is known to cause significant metering inaccuracies in conventional pipelines. The characteristics of secondary … design where flow non-ideality is highly desired. Advances in ultrasonic technology and computing capabilities offer prospects for … Special Ultrasonic Flowmeters for In-Situ Diagnosis of Swirl and Cross Flow …

NIST Workshop on Reference Data for the Properties of Biomaterials

February 1, 2001
Author(s)
John A. Tesk
… a workshop held at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on July 27, 2000 and co-organized by NIST … paid to critiqued reference data as traditionally found in NIST data bases. Individual, concurrent breakout sessions … more critical to progress than completeness of the data in most situations. In addition to reference data, over 17 …

Toxic Yield

January 7, 2001
Author(s)
William M. Pitts
… suggested that the fraction was on the order of 2/3. In the United States there is evidence that this number has been growing in recent years and is approaching 3/4. Autopsy results have … poorly understood, the National Institute of Standards and Technology initiated an investigation of CO formation in …

The Interdependent Networked Community Resilience Modeling Environment (IN-CORE): Science, Structure and Examples

January 1, 2001
Author(s)
John van de Lindt, Daniel Cox, Paolo Gardoni, Jong Lee, Jamie Padgett, Therese P. McAllister, Andre Barbosa, Harvey Cutler, Shannon van Zandt
… during simulations of a damaging event and later in the recovery period of systems repair and restoration. In 2015, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology funded the Center for Risk-Based Community … Networked Community Resilience Modeling Environment (IN-CORE): Science, Structure and Examples …

Creating an Electronic Database for the Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data

October 1, 2000
Author(s)
D M. Blakeslee, Angela Y. Lee, S L. Young
… by extracting data from the articles, storing those data in a database management system, and building a user … is considerably different from the process involved in creating a full text online version of a journal. Many … in an effort at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to create a database version of the Journal …

Stab Resistance of Personal Body Armor

September 1, 2000
Author(s)
Kirk D. Rice
… based on technical work performed by many organizations: in the United Kingdom by the Police Scientific Development Branch, and in the United States by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and its subcontractors. The scope of the standard …
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