Sustainable Geotechnical Infrastructure

Areas of Research Focus

  • Sustainable geotechnical practices
  • The mechanistic characterization of recycled asphalt mixtures
  • Remediation of mine waste/contaminated soils
  • The rheological properties of aged and virgin binders
  • Municipal solid waste landfill design
  • The statistical modeling of axle load spectra for mechanistic-empirical pavement design
  • Transportation infrastructure- Pavement Foundation Systems
  • The implementation of Superpave asphalt binder and mixture specifications
  • Utilization of Recycled Materials
  • The use of advance/efficient statistical techniques in modeling pavement performance
  • The effectiveness of pavement preservation treatments
  • The non-destructive pavement evaluation techniques for fixing the existing road infrastructure
  • The development of performance-related specifications & statistical quality control/assurance
  • The calibration of performance models in mechanistic-empirical pavement design
  • Applications of 2D and 3D imaging techniques
  • Linear and Nonlinear properties of base/subgrade
  • Microstructural characterization of asphalt pavements
  • Back calculation of dynamic modulus master curve of asphalt pavements
  • Image-based measurement technologies
  • Constitutive modeling of asphalt pavements (e.g., Viscoelastic Continuum Damage (VECD) Theory)
  • Sustainable asphalt pavements
  • 3D micromechanical modeling
  • Crumb rubber modified asphalt
  • Asphalt mixture compaction
  • Warm mix asphalt
  • Warm mix asphalt mixing/coating process
  • Inverse analysis from field non-destructive testing
  • Saturated and unsaturated fluid flow through porous media
  • Experimental investigation of sustainable materials for civil engineering applications and pavement structural analysis
  • Optimizing sustainable paving solutions
  • Chemo-mechanical characterization of polymeric agents from end-of-life products to better understand their interactions with bituminous materials
  • Understanding fatigue and thermal cracking mechanisms in asphalt for developing performance-based mix-design techniques and predictive models
  • The assessment of the environmental impacts of paving materials, road construction, and maintenance procedures

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Brice Nelson

Brice Nelson

Director of Corporate Partnerships
517.884.2368
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