Abstract: The ASTM Standard E-119 specifies that when a structural component is fire-tested by exposing one surface to a standard fire exposure, the component fails if the temperature of the unexposed surface of the test component ...

Abstract: The Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) is the first multi-satellite system designed to measure the Earth's radiation budget. It will fly on a low-inclination NASA satellite and two Sun-synchronous NOAA satellites ...

Abstract: A progressive collapse initiates as a result of local structural damage and develops, in a chain reaction mechanism, into a failure that is disproportionate to the initiating local damage. Such collapses can be initiated ...

Abstract: Advanced fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites, which have been favored for certain aerospace, military, marine, and automotive applications, now are starting to be introduced in buildings, bridges, and other civil ...

Abstract: Surveying with global positioning (GPS) satellite receivers affords many opportunities to solve previously difficult surveying problems with greater speed and accuracy than may have been possible with conventional survey ...

Abstract: As base closures accelerate and defense funds are reduced, it will become essential for the military engineer to have a strategic plan for military-facility reuse. At the core of this plan will be the need to have an ...

Abstract: Many existing freeway traffic management systems (FTMS) use speed data from loop detectors as input to various traffic management functions, such as automatic incident detection, and to traveler information system components. ...

Abstract: In standard treatments of the mass and energy budget of cloud droplets, radiant energy transfer is neglected on the grounds that the temperature difference between the droplet and its surroundings is small. This paper ...

Abstract: During the last two decades, biological structures with soft tissue components have been modeled using poroelastic or mixture-based constitutive laws, i.e., the material is viewed as a deformable ...