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Appendix A: Biographies of Committee Members
Pages 145-150

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From page 145...
... He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow and past president of the American Ceramic Society. Ronald Bianchetti is principal/owner of Blackstone Group, Ltd., a corrosion engineering consulting firm located in El Dorado Hills, California.
From page 146...
... He was the principal technical investigator on metallurgical aspects of the congressionally mandated investigation of the collapse of the World Trade Center's Twin Towers and was supervisory metallurgist managing the Time Dependent Failure Group in NBS's Fracture and Deformation Division. This group ran the metallographic facilities as well as carrying out mechanical testing research programs for the U.S.
From page 147...
... She serves on the Technical Advisory Committee and the R&D Committee for iNEMI and the Visiting Committee for the MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineer ing, and has served on numerous other boards, including the board of trustees of the Gordon Research Conferences, the advisory committee of Carnegie Mellon University's Mesoscale Interface Mapping Project, and the editorial board for the Annual Reviews of Materials Research. She has written more than 90 scientific publications.
From page 148...
... Mr. Plattsmier serves on national committees with the American Water Works Association and the American Society of Civil Engineers helping to set standards for pipeline planning and design.
From page 149...
... He has provided corrosion recommendations and designs for water and wastewater collection, transmis sion, storage, and treatment facilities; natural gas and petroleum facilities, tank farms, and high-pressure transmission and distribution systems; high-voltage power transmission lines; dams and diversion structures; bridges; mining facilities and solution mining projects; irrigation systems; pump stations; fish hatcheries; and mining, power, and industrial plants. National and small engineering firms, utilities, military organizations, industry, private companies, and public agencies throughout the United States have retained his services.
From page 150...
... He has participated in federal and state research investigating the physical, chemical, and electrochemical deterioration and repair of infrastructure systems. He has more than 10 years of experience in the construction and engineering industry, where he worked on many infrastructure projects, including testing and evaluating materials and structures for deterioration.


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