ASTM International Honors Anand Garde with Metals Award
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Feb 18, 2026
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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