Dr. David L. Gress

• Professor of Civil Engineering
• Assistant Director of the Recycled Materials Resource Center

Civil engineering materials with emphasis on portland cement concrete, waste stabilization, recycling, bottom ash and other wastes for use as an aggregate substitute in asphalt paving.

Selected Publications

Gress, D.L., El-Korchi, T., Livingston, R.A., Neumann, D.A., and Rush, J.J., "Using Quasielastic Neutron Scattering Techniques to Quantify Freezable Water in Portland Cement Paste", Materials Research Society Symposium, Annual Fall Meeting of the Materials Research Society, 1994.

Gress, D., Zhang, X., Tarr, S., Whitehead, I. and Eighmy, T., "The Physical and Environmental Properties of Asphalt Amended Bottom Ash", Transportation Research Record, No. 1345.

Gress, D.L., and El-Korchi, T., "Microstructural Characterization of Cement Solidified Heavy Metal Wastes", American Chemical Society 1991 National Meeting Environmental Division Symposium, Chemistry and Microstructure of Solidified Waste Forms, Chapter 7, ISNB 0-87371-748-1, Copyright 1993.

Gress, D., X. Zhang, S. Tarr, I. Pazienza, and T.T. Eighmy. 1992. The Physical and Environmental Properties of Asphalt Amended Bottom Ash. Transportation Research Record 1345:10-18.

Gress,D.L., El-Korchi, T., Livingston, R.A., Neumann, D.A., and Rush, J.J., "Quantifying Freezable Water in Portland Cement Paste Using Quasielastic Neutron Scattering", International Conference on Concrete Under Severe Conditions Environment and Loading, Sapporo, Japan August 2-4, 1995.

El-Korchi, T.*, Gress, D.*, Baldwin, K., and Bishop, P., "Evaluating the Freeze-Thaw Durability of Portland Cement Solidified/Stabilized Hazardous Waste Using Acoustic Measurements", ASTM, STP 1033, Environmental Aspects of Stabilization/Solidification of Hazardous and Radioactive Waste, 1989.

Lim, K.* and Gress, D., "Detecting Zones of High Chloride in Overlayed Concrete Bridge Decks Using Radar Waveforms", Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, Vol. 137, 1989, Materials Research Society.

Teaching Interests

Engineering materials, pavement design, highway and airport runway design

Experience

Dr. Gress has taught civil engineering courses at the University of New Hampshire since the fall of 1974. He was the chair of the department for nine years from 1984 through 1994. He was on sabbatical during 1994 at the Federal Highway Turner Farbank Research Facility at McLean Virginia where he did research on the freezing mechanism of portland cement paste. He has been actively involved in research for over twenty years in the areas of basic materials research.

 
Biography

David Gress was born in Washington Indiana on April 26, 1943. He received an associate degree in engineering from Vincennes University, and BSCE, MSCE and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Purdue University in 1963, 1966, 1968, and 1976 respectively. He is a member of the Transportation Research Board (TRB), American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), American Concrete Institute (ACI), Materials Research Society (MRS), American Masonry Society (AMS), and the American Ceramic Society (ASC). He has been a reviewer for the DOE Waste Management Program, National Science Foundation, NY State Solid Waste Combustion Institute, and a member of several committees of the Transportation Research Board, Policy Committee of the University Transportation Center (MIT, Harvard and all New England State Universities), the Advisory Committee of the New England Transportation Consortium (all New England State Schools), the Highway Research Committee of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and the Concrete and Structures Advisory Committee, C-204 Non-Destructive Testing for Concrete, and Optimization of Highway Concrete Technology of the Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP) He is the official University Representative of the Transportation Research Board (TRB).