State-of-the-Research Visit to Japan

这项最先进的调查奖将派萨伦德拉教授 高级水泥基材料公司的沙阿和J.弗朗西斯杨 中心在西北大学，日本调查大学， 政府和工业实验室的先进水泥- 基础材料和混凝土结构，并研究未来 研究人员的合作与交流。 日本公共部门 和建筑业在研究方面的支出要多得多， 发展比美国同行，导致 在过去的二十年里，我们取得了巨大的进步，例如， 增塑剂 两名调查人员打算探索可能的 安排美国教职员工和博士后花时间 在日本的研究机构。

This State-of-the-Art survey award will send Professors Surendra Shah and J. Francis Young, of the Advanced Cement-Based Materials Center at Northwestern University, to Japan to survey university, government, and industrial laboratories for advances in cement- based materials and concrete construction and to investigate future cooperation and exchanges of researchers. Japan's public sector and construction industry spend considerably more on research and development than do their United States counterparts, resulting in significant advances over the past twenty years such as super- plasticizers. The two investigators intend to explore possible arrange ments for U.S. faculty members and post-docs to spend time in Japanese research institutes.