Alexander S. Brand
Assistant Professor
Alexander S. Brand
305A Patton Hall
Blacksburg, VA, USA 24061
Mail Code: (0105)
Program Area : Transportation Infrastructure and Systems Engineering
Program Area : Structural Engineering and Materials
Personal Homepage : https://brand.cee.vt.edu/
Professional Registration : PE (Virginia)
Areas of Interest
Materials science of civil infrastructure materials; Dissolution, reaction, and hydration kinetics of minerals; Advanced characterization techniques to study the micro- and nanostructure development in cementitious materials; Use of recycled and by-product materials in concrete (reclaimed asphalt pavement aggregates, recycled concrete aggregates, steel furnace slag aggregates, and supplementary cementitious materials); Concrete pavement engineering; Fiber-reinforced concrete; Two-lift concrete pavements; Roller-compacted concrete
- Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (2015) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- M.S. in Civil Engineering (2012) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- B.S. in Civil Engineering (2010) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- 2016-2018 National Research Council Postdoctoral Research Associate, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD
- 2023 College of Engineering Certificate of Teaching Excellence, College of Engineering, Virginia Tech
- Cement and Concrete Research 2020 Le Chatelier Distinguished Paper
- Cement and Concrete Research 2019 Le Chatelier Distinguished Paper
- 2023 NSF CAREER Award
- CEE 3684: Civil Engineering Materials
- CEE 3804: Computer Applications in CEE
- CEE 4614: Concrete Materials
- CEE 4664: Pavement Design
- CEE 5484: Concrete Microstructure
- CEE 5664: Advanced Concrete Materials
- https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=_CfNzIYAAAAJ