Civil engineering materials group conducts international research
Civil Engineering Graduate Student Silvia Caro in the Adhesives Laboratory at the Imperial College in London.
Materials engineering faculty and students in the Zachry Department of Civil Engineering at Texas A&M University are leading multiple international collaborations researching pavement materials.
Led by professors Eyad Masad, Dallas Little and Robert Lytton, along with Amit Bhasin, an associate research scientist at the Texas Transportation Institute, the group also involves graduate students in its global endeavors.
Civil engineering graduate students Silvia Caro and Jonathan Howson spent a portion of their summer working with researchers in the Nottingham Transportation Engineering Center and Adhesives Group in Mechanical Engineering of the Imperial College in London. Their research focused on measuring and modeling adhesive properties of asphalt pavement materials. This trans-Atlantic collaboration resulted from the Asphalt Research Consortium, headed at Texas A&M by Little, teaming with the Collaborating for Success through People Initiative, led by the United Kingdom’s Engineering and Physical Research Council.
The group also recently agreed to research properties of sulfur modified asphalt pavements for the Shell Company in Qatar. Directed by Masad and Little, with both undergraduate and graduate students assisting, the group will produce methods for monitoring and improving the performance of asphalt pavements modified with Shell Sulfur product.
Researchers from Texas A&M, Nottingham, and the Imperial College, together in London.
Masad and Little will lead a third project, also located in Qatar, that will utilize test methods recently developed at Texas A&M involving X-ray computed tomography and surface energy measurements. Along with undergraduate and graduate students, the professors will work to find innovative solutions for constructing asphalt pavements in harsh environmental conditions and high traffic loads that are experienced in Qatar.
To learn more about the Asphalt Research Consortium, visit http://www.arc.unr.edu/index.html. For more information on the collaborative research in the United Kingdom, visit http://acim.civil.tamu.edu/intproject.html.
Contact: Dr. Eyad Masad
Written by: Leslie Jordan
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