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The Building and Fire Research Laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, in cooperation with the Fully Integrated and Automated Technology (FIATECH) consortium, sponsored a workshop on data exchange standards at the construction job
A series of tragic events in the United States over the past decade, punctuated by the collapse of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, has exposed the vulnerability of public buildings to uncontrolled fires, explosions, and biological attack
This report describes the results of a brain storming session conducted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology s Building and Fire Research Laboratory. The session was held as part of the Fourth International Workshop Structures in Fire (SiF
The tests reported herein were intended to gain information on how manufactured home shear walls perform under extreme loads. The specimens tested represent sections from a typical manufactured home. The test results will be used for analytical modeling
Traditional air-handling unit (AHU) control systems link the position of the exhaust air damper, recirculation air damper, and outdoor air damper. Laboratory and field tests on variable-air-volume (VAV) AHU's that use a volume matching to control the
This paper presents an analytical assessment of the robustness of concrete deck-steel beam composite floor systems with shear connectors under the assumption that an interior column has been removed. The study provides an insight into the behavior and
This paper presents an improved method for the design of steel structures that can save material and energy embodied therein while maintaining wind-resisting capacity, or substantially increase structural capacity with only modest or no increase in
This contribution is a chapter for a manual on petrographic analysis of concrete. It adds new material on the application of scanning electron microscopy to microstructural investigations of hardened portland cement concretes. Following the manual form
At least three different physics based approaches to fire dynamics simulations have evolved over the years; lumped parameter or ''zone models'', computational fluid dynamics models based on classical trubulence modeling techniques, and large eddy
At least three different physics based approaches to fire dynamicssimulations have evolved over the years; lumped parameter or ''zone models'',computational fluid dynamics models based on classical turbulence modelingtechniques, and large eddy simulations
Simulation of the effects of severe fires on the structural integrity of builings requires a close coupling between the gas phase energy release andtransport phenomena and the stress analysis in the load bearing materials. The connection between the two is
Richard Gann, Richard D. Peacock, Jason D. Averill, Marc R. Nyden
This report presents the methodology for and results from a series of room-scale fire tests to produce data on the yields of toxic products in both pre-flashover and post-flashover fires. Trays of common household electric cable burned in a room with a