Anand Garde

Hearty congratulations to IITB alumnus, Mr. Anand Garde (B.Tech., Metallurgical Engineering & Materials Sciences, 1967), for receiving the H.R. Russ Ogden Award and an Award of Appreciation from ASTM International!

Commenting on this accolade, Mr. Garde said, “I want to share the good news and my sense of achievement with my IIT Bombay classmates, where my zirconium profession and passion for ASTM Zirconium Symposia started in the 1960s. When I announced my retirement from the ASTM B10 committees (chair of both the Kroll Medal Selection International Committee and Zirconium International Symposia Organization committee) at the committee meeting in Atlanta on November 12, after 40 years of volunteer service, the committee surprised me with the attached two awards.”

This honour marks an important milestone in a distinguished international career spanning decades of contributions to the fields of nuclear zirconium and metallurgical science.

ASTM International has issued a press release highlighting Mr. Garde’s achievements and professional journey. We are pleased to share the official release below:

ASTM International Honors Anand Garde with Metals Award

The award honors outstanding accomplishments in reactive and refractory metals and alloys.

ASTM International’s reactive and refractory metals and alloys committee (B10) has awarded its 2025 H.R. “Russ” Ogden Award to Anand Garde, retired nuclear zirconium consultant and owner of ZiraShri, LLC.

Established by the committee in honor of its first chair, this award is given for outstanding accomplishments in the science and technology of reactive and refractory metals and alloys.

A member of ASTM International since 1984, Garde has been previously honored by the committee, including two Awards of Appreciation (2013, 2025), the Kroll Zirconium Medal Award (2019), and the Award of Merit (2016). In addition to ASTM, Garde is a member of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS-AIME), the American Society of Metals (ASM), and the Indian Institute of Metals (IIM).

Garde has been consulting through ZiraShri since 2017. Garde’s career concentration is nuclear zirconium, for which he has worked in all metallurgical topics. These topics include nuclear fuel fabrication, alloy development, evaluation of irradiation performance, hot-cell examinations, licensing, and solving problems related to in-LWR fuel performance and LOCA evaluations.

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Additional highlights from Mr. Garde’s distinguished professional and personal journey include:

Mr. Garde received his Ph.D. from the University of Florida in 1973 and has authored more than 100 technical publications. Beyond his scientific work, he has contributed to literature through his Marathi book Videshi Gudgullya, for which he received the Government of Maharashtra’s award for Humorous Marathi Author of the Year in 2002. He retired from Westinghouse in 2016 as Engineer Emeritus and is an ASTM Fellow. For the past 14 years, he has also been a consistent contributor to the IIT Bombay student scholarship fund.

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Once again, hearty congratulations to Mr. Garde!

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