Was founded in 2003 to provide structural and material evaluation services to the prestressed concrete industry. Named after our president (Dr. Robert J. Peterman), we have grown to serve clients in a vast array of industries, including the following…

• Concrete and Prestressed Concrete
• Steel Strand and Wire Suppliers
• Post-Tensioning Industry
• Cooling Towers
• Fiberglass Members and Connections
• Automotive Parts
• Metal Foundry and Castings
• Metal Fabrication

Dr. Peterman is a licensed Professional Engineer in the states of Kansas, Indiana, and Wisconsin. Prior to returning to Purdue University for his Ph.D., he was a design engineer in the prestressed industry for 3 1/2 years in Indianapolis, IN. Dr. Peterman has over 100 technical publications, including over 70 addressing prestressed concrete bond, behavior and durability, and over 25 of these are related to concrete railroad ties.

Dr. Peterman is a fellow of the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI) and is a regular speaker at national conferences. He is currently Chairperson of the PCI Prestressing Reinforcement Committee, a member of ASTM ASTM A.01 (Steel, Stainless Steel, and Related Alloys) and sub-committee A01.05 (Steel Reinforcement), and a member of ASTM D20 (Plastics) and sub-committee D20.18.02 (Pultruded Shapes), 

From 2004-2007, Dr. Peterman was the principal investigator on a project to determine the bond between prestressing strand and self-consolidating concrete (SCC). This research led to the development of a test procedure for the evaluation of bonds in pre-tensioned members, which is often referred to as the “Peterman Beam Test,” and has been utilized by many PCI producer members to verify the quality of the bond between their concrete mixtures and strand.