Technology & Engineering

This study focuses on tire problems as experienced by light vehicles in the pre-crash phase. Of special interest are tire problems such as blowouts or flat tires, tire or wheel deficiency, tire or...

This report presents results from the 2011 National Occupant Protection Use Survey (NOPUS) Controlled Intersection Study.Author: T. J. YePublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing...

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) conducted joint research to evaluate explosion blast effects on typical U.S...

Until the early 1980s, mine face ventilation systems were designed for ventilating cutting depths up to 20 feet. Since that time, use of remotely operated mining machines have allowed cutting depths...

This report details the results of a NIOSH investigation on the ability of the Coal Dust Explosibility Meter (CDEM) to accurately predict the explosibility of samples of coal and rock 5 dust mixtures...

This publication details recommendations for a new rock dusting standard to prevent coal dust explosions in intake airways.Author: Michael J. SapkoPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing...

Noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) is the most common occupational illness in the United States, with 30 million workers exposed to excessive noise levels every day. Of particular concern is the...

Hired farmworkers form a core component of the agricultural workforce in the United States, numbering an estimated 1.8 million workers. Very little national health data exists on this population...

This report covers Carbon Capture and Sequestration. Carbon capture and sequestration (or storage)-known as CCS-has attracted interest as a measure for mitigating global climate change because large...

This document details the review of performance and applicability of technology for the control of emissions from diesel-powered equipment used in underground coal and metal/nonmetal mines. The...

The objective of the Cooperative Intersection Collision Avoidance System for Violations (CICAS-V) Project is to develop and field-test a comprehensive system to reduce the number of crashes at...

The Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) is dedicated to coordinating, facilitating and reviewing the Department of Transportation's (DOT) Research Development and Technology...

RITA's FY 2012 budget request is $52.6 million, an increase of $12.6 million over the FY 2010 level. This request reflects RITA's Surface Transportation Reauthorization proposal to greatly enhance...

At the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the U.S.representation of the ohm is based on the quantum Hall effect, and it is maintained anddisseminated at various resistance levels...

The Field Parameters and EMC Applications Project of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has recently completed shielding effectiveness studies of three representative aircraft...

These are the proceedings of a summit held in June 2006 at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). This Static Analysis Summit is one of a series of meetings in the NIST Software...

A log is a record of the events occurring within an organization's systems and networks. Logs are composed of log entries; each entry contains information related to a specific event that has...

Organizations have information technology (IT) plans in place, such as contingency and computer security incident response plans, so that they can respond to and manage adverse situations involving...

Intrusion detection is the process of monitoring the events occurring in a computer system or network and analyzing them for signs of possible incidents, which are violations or imminent threats of...

Like any information technology (IT), radio frequency identification (RFID) presents security and privacy risks that must be carefully mitigated through management, operational, and technical...

The advance of Web services technologies promises to have far-reaching effects on the Internet and enterprise networks. Web services based on the eXtensible Markup Language (XML), SOAP, and related...

In today's computing environment, there are many threats to the confidentiality of information stored on end user devices, such as personal computers, consumer devices (e.g., personal digital...

This report was prepared to support the goals and objectives of the analysis of building and fire codes and practices of the National Institute of Standards and Technology World Trade Center...

This report was prepared to support the analysis of building and fire codes and practices of the National Institute of Standards and Technology World Trade Center Investigation.Author: U. S...

This report was prepared to support the analysis of building fire codes and standards of the National Institute of Standards and Technology World Trade Center Investigation.Author: U. S. Department...

This report is an overview of the results of the mechanical and metallurgical analysis of structural steel from the World Trade Center pat of the National Institute of Standards and Technology...

This report reviews the contemporaneous steel and welding standards used to construct the 110-story World Trade Center towers. It describes the major structural elements in the towers and the many...

Scientists, engineers, and students have computational tools [ 1- 3] to aid them in their efforts to model and understand fire events. These users, however, must rely on personal judgment to...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) provides its Internet Time Service (ITS) to the general public. The service distributes Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) kept at NIST and...

Information technology is undergoing a paradigm shift from desktop computing, where isolated workstations connect to shared servers across a network, to pervasive computing, where myriad portable,...