George Scherer
Department/Program(s):
Position: Faculty
Title: William L. Knapp '47 Professor of Civil Engineering, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials.
Area(s):
- Mechanics, Materials & Structures
Research Area(s):
Durability of infrastructure; damage to materials by frost and salt; conservation of art and architecture; transport in porous materials; nucleation and growth kinetics; relaxation processes; sol-gel processing
Durability of infrastructure; damage to materials by frost and salt; conservation of art and architecture; transport in porous materials; nucleation and growth kinetics; relaxation processes; sol-gel processing
Office: E319 Engineering Quad E-Wing
Phone: 609-258-5680
Email: scherer@princeton.edu
Webpage: Materials Research Group
Education
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1974
S.B.-S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1972
Research Interests
Broad interest in material science, including relaxation phenomena, viscous flow and sintering, thermal stress analysis, diffusion, kinetics of nucleation and crystallization, preparation of glasses and ceramics from gels, theory of drying, structure and properties of cementitious materials, weathering of stone.
Courses
CEE105 Lab in Conservation of Art
CEE364 Materials in Civil Engineering
MSE501 Introduction to Materials Science
Updated: May 12, 2009
Recent Publications
1. Mechanisms of Frost Damage, G.W. Scherer and J.J. Valenza II, pp. 209-246 in Materials Science of Concrete, Vol. VII, eds. J. Skalny and F. Young (American Ceramic Society, 2005).
2. Mechanism for Salt Scaling, J.J. Valenza II and G.W. Scherer, J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 89 [4] 1161-1179 (2006).
3. Dynamic Pressurization Method for Measuring Permeability and Modulus: I. Theory, G.W. Scherer, Materials and Structures, 3 (2006) 1041-1057.
4. New Methods to Measure Liquid Permeability in Porous Materials, G.W. Scherer, J. J. Valenza II, and G. Simmons, Cement Concr. Res. 37 (2007) 386-397.
5. Relaxation and Glass Transition in an Isostatically Compressed Diopside Glass, L. Wondraczek, H. Behrens, Y. Yue, J. Deubener, G.W. Scherer, J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 90 [5] (2007) 1556-1561.
