The National Capital Chapter of ACI was pleased to host Fred Goodwin at our February dinner meeting.
Fred Goodwin is a chemist with over thirty years of experience in the construction chemicals industry, including cement manufacture, research, development, and technical support of grouts, adhesives, coatings, shotcrete, stucco, flooring, and concrete repair materials. He has been with BASF and its predecessors for 23 years.Cracking Potential Technology
Cracking of cementitious materials is probably the biggest problem in our industry. Most failures are either caused by cracking or the effect of cracking. His presentation discussed the how and why of these failures by describing materials, tensile properties, shrinkage, modulus, creep, and testing for these properties that impact cracking potential.

Fred Goodwin
