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People
The Pavement Research Institute brings together researchers with a wide
range of expertise in pavement engineering, including pavement
construction, geomechanics, laboratory and non-destructive testing,
and computational modeling. In addition, the PRI's position within
the University of Minnesota, and its close relationship with Mn/DOT,
facilitates collaboration with researchers in a diverse set of
transportation-related disciplines, including economic analysis
and materials engineering.
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PRI
Director: Michael Darter, Ph.D., P.E. |
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Michael I. Darter, Ph.D., P.E., is Emeritus Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois and principal engineer with Applied Research Associates (ARA), Inc. Darter has been involved in pavement engineering throughout his entire 40-year career and is an internationally recognized authority in highway and airport infrastructure.
Michael Darter's bio page (official
bio, print-quality photo)
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PRI
Associate Director: Derek Tompkins |
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Derek Tompkins is a CTS Research Scholar in the Department of Civil Engineering. In addition to his administrative role in the PRI, his current research activities focus on modeling early age effects in concrete pavements.
Tompkins’ CTS Research Scholar Web page
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Featured
Researchers |
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Andrew Drescher –
Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering
CTS Faculty Scholar
Pavement research focus: Geomechanics
Selected research interests: Fundamental aspects of testing and
modeling the mechanical behavior of frictional/cohesive materials;
viscoelastic
properties
of asphalt
concrete.
Andrew Drescher's departmental Web page |
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Satish Gupta – Professor, Dept. of Soil,
Water, and Climate
Pavement research focus: Geomechanics
Selected research interests: Soil physics, soil hydrology, and soil
management; soil structure and remote sensing; effects of dense soil
conditions
and
recycled
material on hydraulic properties; role of soil unsaturation on shear
strength.
Satish
Gupta's departmental Web page |
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Bojan Guzina – Associate Professor, Dept. of Civil
Engineering
Pavement research focus: Geomechanics
Selected research interests: Nondestructive material characterization
techniques based on elastic wave propagation; analytical modeling
of seismic
wave
motions
in
multi-layered solids; development of novel field testing techniques.
Bojan Guzina's departmental Web page |
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Lev Khazanovich – Associate Professor, Dept. of
Civil Engineering
CTS Faculty Scholar
Pavement research focus: Mechanistic Design & Concrete
Engineering
Selected research interests: Concrete pavement design and
evaluation, including performance prediction modeling, non-destructive
testing,
and finite
element
modeling.
Lev Khazanovich's departmental Web page |
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Joseph Labuz – Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering
Pavement research focus: Geomechanics
Selected research interests: Mechanical behavior of micro-cracked
solids on the material and system levels; failure response of
structures
composed
of
rock-like
materials.
Joseph Labuz's departmental Web page |
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David Levinson – Assistant Professor, Dept. of
Civil Engineering
CTS Faculty Scholar
Pavement research focus: Traffic & Economics
Selected research interests: Economic evaluation of transportation
technology and policy, modeling of travel behavior, and freight forecasting.
David
Levinson's departmental Web page |
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Mihai Marasteanu – Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil
Engineering
CTS Faculty Scholar
Pavement research focus: Asphalt & Asphalt
Binders
Selected research interests: Applications of fundamental theories
(viscoelasticity, rheology, plasticity, fracture mechanics, continuum
damage mechanics,
micromechanics)
to bituminous materials characterization, modeling and experimental
testing.
Mihai
Marasteanu's departmental Web page |
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Arturo Schultz – Associate Professor,
Dept. of Civil Engineering
Pavement research focus: Mechanistic Design & Concrete Engineering
Selected research interests: Design, analysis, and behavior of
concrete, masonry and steel-concrete composite structures. Interaction
between reinforcement (e.g., dowels, rebar and anchors) and concrete
members.
Arturo
Schultz's departmental Web page |
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Henryk Stolarski – Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering
Pavement research focus: Mechanistic Design & Concrete Engineering
Selected research interests: Structural and continuum mechanics,
with particular emphasis on large deformation inelastic problems.
Analysis of
shell structures.
Variational methods and numerical techniques for nonlinear problems
of mechanics.
Henryk Stolarski's departmental Web page
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Vaughan Voller – Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering
Pavement research focus: Modeling
Selected research interests: Modeling of stresses and cracking
in engineered systems; development of numerical techniques for
thermal-fluid
and thermo-mechanical
problems.
Vaughan
Voller's departmental Web page |
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Friday, 11 January 2008