Vince Hock bio

Vincent Hock, F.NACE

Metallurgist, ERDC-CERL, Champaign, IL

Presentation: Corrrosion Engineering of Structural and Architectural Metals
The presentation will discuss the following issues:
A. Problem: How corrosion can affect safety and security of steel frame structures
B. Solution: Designing on a life cycle basis using sustainable corrosion resistant materials .This Includes environmental factors and life cycle design that includes maintenance.
C. Examples of Corrosion Resistant Coatings and Materials being implemented in existing DoD structures
D. Benefits - Calculating the ROI.

Brief Bio
Vincent Hock, F.NACE, is being honored for leadership, professionalism, and dedication to research and development for corrosion mitigation, significantly enhancing corrosion technology programs.

Hock’s single most important achievement to date is his innovative basic and applied research and development (R&D) into the fundamental properties of electro-osmosis in concrete in contact with clay and water interfaces, which led to the development of the electro-osmotic pulse (EOP) technology. EOP technology virtually eliminates the corrosion of reinforcing steel and mitigates corrosion of electrical and mechanical equipment housed in the target structures. Mr. Hock’s EOP work encompassed all aspects of technology development, from basic R&D to complete technology implementation, both in the government and private sectors.

He has also developed, demonstrated and transferred such diverse technologies as ceramic-coated anode materials, anti-scale coatings for heat exchangers, in-situ pipe coatings to stop corrosion, automated robotic platforms for pipe and tank inspection, and chemical stabilizers for lead-based paint abatement.

He recently won the FIATECH (Fully Integrated and Automated Technology) Outstanding Researcher Award in the area of “New & Emerging Technology R&D” for his work as project manager of the Electro-Osmotic Pulse (EOP) Team, and was the recipient of the Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) Research and Development Achievement Award, for “Simulation of Contaminate Fate and Transportation in Water Distribution Systems.” In 2005, he received the L.R. Shafer Research and Development Achievement Award for “New Physicochemical Models of Fate & Transport of Contaminants in Potable Water Distribution Systems.” Mr. Hock was a 2004 American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Civil Engineering Research Foundation (CERF) Pankow Finalist for EOP, and in that same year, won the James D. Prendergast Technology Infusion Achievement Award and the Society of American Military Engineers (SAME) 2004 Technology Advancement Medal (for R&D that led to the TT of Electro Osmotic pulse Technology). Mr. Hock was the 2002 NOVA Award Winner for “Electro-Osmotic Pulse Technology for Control of Water Intrusion,” and in 1986, was named Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL) Researcher of the Year.

Hock has authored or co-authored over 190 external refereed publications, and more than 40 internal government technical reports. He has been granted five patents and has filed four patent disclosures related to EOP technology. He a member and past chair of NACE Specific Technology Group (STG) 40 on Military and Aerospace Systems and Facilities, and currently serves as an advisor to NASA’s Facilities Corrosion Research Evaluation Group. He is also an advisor to NACE International’s public affairs director on program development for corrosion prevention training and certification requirements for facilities engineers and technicians, and is a research advisor for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (USEPA’s) Department of Homeland Security-Water Systems Division, the American Water Works Association Research Foundation (AWWA-RF), and serves as an expert on the Hach Industries Homeland Security Technologies Peer Review Committee.

Hock received a B.S. degree in chemistry from St. Joseph’s University, and an M.S. in Metallurgy from The Pennsylvania State University. He is currently a senior researcher and project manager for the Engineer Research and Development Center, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (ERDC-CERL) in Champaign, Illinois.