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Dr. Garboczi joined the Inorganic Building Materials Group of the previous Building Materials Division in October, 1988. He has worked on the relationships between microstructure and transport properties in cement-based materials using realistic computer-based microstructural models and exact property calculation algorithms. Electrical and diffusion properties, as well as fluid permeability, shrinkage, and A.C. electrical properties have been studied and found to be in quantitative agreement with experimental results. He has also heavily used percolation and composite theory to understand the pore-space-dependent properties of cement-based materials. Dr. Garboczi has extensively worked in applying finite element techniques to 3-D microstructure models of ceramics, foams, and cement-based materials to accurately compute their linear elastic properties. More recently, he has used a novel combination of X-ray microcomputed tomography and spherical harmonic analysis to build quantitative mathematical models of random-shaped particles of cement, sand, gravel, and slag. All his research is being built into the Virtual Cement and Concrete Testing Laboratory, a novel software package being developed with the direct collaboration of leading companies to be used to allow concrete to be optimized using the power of the computational materials science of concrete. Prior to coming to NIST, Dr. Garboczi was a research physicist at the Armstrong World Industries, Inc. Research and Development Division, where he worked on the transport and mechanical properties of random porous building materials. Dr. Garboczi is a member of the American Physical Society, the American Ceramic Society, the American Concrete Institute, and RILEM. He received the Robert L' Hermite Medal from RILEM in 1992 and the 1992 BFRL Communicator Award, and is a Fellow of both the American Ceramic Society and the American Concrete Institute. He is on the editorial board of Cement and Concrete Research, the leading journal in the materials science of cement and concrete, and has organized symposia for The American Ceramic Society, the American Concrete Institute, and The Materials Research Society. |
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Edward J. GarbocziEducationMichigan State University, PhysicsB.S., 1980 M.S., 1983 Ph.D., 1985 PositionGroup LeaderInorganic Materials Group Materials and Construction Research Division Building and Fire Research Laboratory |
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