George W. Scherer

William Knapp ’47 Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering


Princeton University

Eng. Quad E-319

Princeton NJ 08544

USA


Phone    1-609-258-5680

FAX        1-609-258-1563


Email     scherer@princeton.edu


Secretary:

Kathy Posnett

Phone    1-609-258-5680

Email      posnett@princeton.edu

George W. Scherer

Research Interests

Transport in Porous Media

    Beam Bending

    Thermopermeametry

    Dynamic Pressurization

   Confined Fluids

Nucleation and Growth

    Salt Scaling of Concrete

    Internal Frost Damage

Conservation of Art

    Crystallization Pressure

    Swelling of Clay Inclusions

    Novel Consolidants

Corrosion of Concrete

    Attack by Carbonic Acid

Sol-Gel Processing

    Structure & Properties

    Characterization

    Theory of Drying

    Predicting Drying Shrinkage

    Aerogels

Relaxation Phenomena

   Structural Relaxation

   Glass-to-Metal Seals

Sintering

    Viscous Sintering

    Constitutive Models

    Constrained Sintering

    Sintering Gels