Geotechnical and Materials Engineering Research
- John Kevern, doctoral student and 2005-2006 recipient of the P.K. Mehta American Concrete Institute scholarship for sustainable concrete development, researches a new kind of portland cement concrete mix: pervious concrete.
Geotechnical faculty and research staff continue the legacy of cutting-edge research, investigating issues related to soil mechanics, geomaterials behavior and stabilization, in situ testing environmental geotechnology, and materials.
Many of their efforts are coordinated with industry, state and national sponsors.
Their specialized areas of interest are as follows:
- analysis and design of pavement systems (Ceylan)
- nondestructive testing and evaluation of transportation infrastructure (Ceylan)
- transportation soils and pavement materials engineering (Ceylan)
- use of neural networks in engineering (Ceylan)
- smart engineering systems design (Ceylan)
- landslides and slope instability (Schaefer)
- ground improvement (Schaefer, White)
- numerical applications to geotechnical engineering (Schaefer)
- foundation engineering (Schaefer)
- supplementary cementitious materials (Wang)
- concrete chemistry and microstructure (Wang)
- pavement concrete mix design and durability (Wang)
- self-consolidating concrete (Wang)
- pervious concrete (Wang)
- soil compaction (White)
- soil-structure interaction (White)
- in-situ testing (White)
- asphalt materials characterization (Williams)
- asphalt design, performance, and construction (Williams)
- asphalt rheology (Williams)
- pavement design (Williams)
Faculty and Staff
- Cable, James K., Associate Professor Emeritus
- Ceylan, Halil, Assistant Professor
- Davidson, Donald, Lab Mech Tech
- Ge, Zhi, Postdoc Research Associate
- Gopalakrishnan, Kasthurirangan, Research Assistant Professor
- Grove, Jim, Adjunct Lecturer
- Hu, Jiong, Postdoc Research Associate
- Kim, Sung Hwan, Postdoc Research Associate
- Schaefer, Vern, Professor
- Suleiman, Muhannad, Lecturer
- Wang, Kejin, Associate Professor
- White, David, Associate Professor
- Williams, Chris, Associate Professor
Recent Research
- Effect of Admixtures on Roller-Compacted Concrete Mixes
- Develop an Expanded, Improved, and Upgraded Version of Probabilistic Optimization for Profit Software
- Investigation into Freezing-Thawing Durability of Low Permeability Concrete with and without Air Entraining Agent
- Development of LRFD Design Procedures for Bridge Piles in Iowa, TR-573
- Identification of Practices, Design, Construction, and Repair Using Trenchless Technology (TR-570)
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