US Patent Issued to Purdue Research Foundation on July 1 for "Methods for determining the young's modulus of a cementitious material" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,683, issued on July 1, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Methods for determining the young's modulus of a cementitious material" was invented by Na Lu (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Zhihao Kong (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes filling a cavity of a form defined by one or more boundaries with an uncured concrete mixture such that the uncured concrete mixture contacts or envelops a piezoelectric sensor within the form, receiving one or more electrical signals from the piezoelectric sensor as the uncured concrete mixture cures within the form to define a concrete sample,...