TRB Centennial and Women’s History Month – Research Profiles – Katharine Mather

“A petrographic examination of concrete ordinarily begins and ends with a problem of communication between the person who requests the examination ­usually an engineer-and the person who makes it-usually a petrographer. Unless the two succeed in producing a clear, mutually understood statement of the problem, they cannot expect a clear, useful answer to be economically obtained. . . . The petrographer should not expect petrographic results to be taken on faith…. Both should remember that the essentials…