Technology & Engineering

This report established the baseline performance of the North and South World Trade Center Towers under design gravity and wind loading conditions.Author: U. S. Department of CommercePublisher:...

This report describes damage characteristics, failure modes, and fire-related degradation of the recovered structural components from the World Trade Center 1 and WTC 2.Author: U. S. Department of...

Simpson Gumpertz and Heger, Inc. developed finite element models of the components, connection and subsystems of the World Trade Center towers to study their structural performance in the fire...

Following the September 19, 1985 Mexico earthquake, a team consisting of four engineers and one seismologist from the National Bureau of Standards and the United States Geological Survey was...

This document mandates standard lightning protection, transient protection, electrostatic discharge (ESD), grounding, bonding and shielding configurations and procedures for new facilities, facility...

The Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Joint Program Office (JPO) is placing increasing emphasis on transferring ITS technology from research to deployment, and on accelerating the rate of ITS...

This document is a functional description of the intended configuration and operation of the Apollo Unified S-band Telecommunications and Tracking System. In particular, this description applies to...

Institutional issues provide challenges to implementing congestion pricing strategies. The primer explores the types of institutional issues that are commonly encountered with priced lanes,...

This report identifies the security approach associated with a communications data delivery system that supports vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications. The...

This report assesses the potential of substitutes for gasoline to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases (GHGs) by automobiles and light-duty trucks. The report also assesses...

This is one of two implementation documents for the National Transportation Science and Technology Strategy. It deals with the areas of basic or enabling research which are necessary to provide the...

This report provides background on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and asset management, describes how public agencies have been integrating the two, and identifies benefits and challenges to...

(Introduction by G. M. Low) On July 20, 1969, man first set foot on another planet. This "giant leap for man-kind'' represented one of the greatest engineering achievements of all time. This article...

This report describes a thermally-induced electrical failure (THIEF) model's ability to predict the behavior of power, instrument, and control cables during a fire. The model is intended to be...

"Respiratory Disease in Agriculture: Mortality and Morbidity Statistics" presents summary tables and figures of occupational respiratory disease surveillance data focusing on various occupationally...

The 1991 report is the first in the series of WoRLD Surveillance Reports. Data presented in the report, most of which relates to the 1968-1987 time period, originated from the National Institute for...

The workshop is a tutorial on introductory geospatial semantics with hands-on exercises using standard Web browsers. The workshop is divided into two sections, general semantics on the Web and...

The ability to automatically collect more and better measurements of roadway assets (e.g., existence, condition, location, type) and to accurately map both geometry and elements of roadway assets is...

NIST Special Publication 800-34, Rev. 1, Contingency Planning Guide for Federal Information Systems, provides instructions, recommendations, and considerations for federal information system...

This paper discusses some aspects of selecting and testing random and pseudorandom number generators. The outputs of such generators may be used in many cryptographic applications, such as the...

Wireless technologies for technical and business communications have been available for over a century and are widely used for many popular applications. The use of wireless technologies in the power...

This safety evaluation report (SER) documents the technical review of U.S. Advanced Boiling Water Reactor (ABWR) Aircraft Impact Assessment (AIA) application by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission...

This report provides technical details applicable to access control methods and technologies commonly used to protect facilities licensed by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. It contains...

Due to the exhaustion of IPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4) address space, and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) mandate that U.S. federal agencies begin to use the IPv6 (Internet Protocol...

This "Technical Evaluation Report on the Content of the U.S. Department of Energy's Yucca Mountain License Application; Administrative and Programmatic Volume" (TER Administrative and Programmatic...

R. Cargill Hall has written a history. Readers not familiar with the state of writing about twentieth century technology and science may not realize his achievement. Accounts-so-called histories-of...

The International Consortium for Fire Safety, Health, and the Environment (ICFSHE), with funding provided by the Outdoor Power Equipment Institute, awarded a contract to the SP Swedish National...

Closed-circuit breathing devices recycle exhaled air after scrubbing carbon dioxide and adding make-up oxygen from a tank of pure oxygen. Use of this equipment allows first responders to work for up...

This report describes the results of calculations that were performed using the Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) to examine the effect of wind on the thermal and fire conditions in a single-story...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been conducting research to characterize and understand thermal imaging cameras (TIC) performance. NIST's findings and recommendations...