Pezhouhan Tavassoti-Kheiry



           


Application of Nondestructive Testing to Pavement Materials

    Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation (NDT/E) can provide invaluable insights about engineering materials in a timely manner and

  1. Developing Bio-Degradable Asphalt Release Agents (ARAs) for Canadian Pavements Application: Sponsored by the Ontario Centre for Excellence (OCE) and Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Engage Program. Industry Sponsor Partner: MultiSolv Inc.
  2. Sustainable Asphalt Mixes with High RAP Contents and Rejuvenating Agents: Laboratory Evaluation and Plant Validation: Funded by the Collaborative Research and Development (CRD) program. Industry Sponsor: Imperial Oil
  3. 3D Printing of Concrete Structures
  4. Evaluation of Rutting and Moisture Damage Sensitivity of Asphalt Concrete Mixes. Sponsor Nova Scotia Transportation and Infrastructure Rehabilitation (NSTIR)


  5. Past Research

    1. Developing Specifications for the Use of Post-Consumer Recycled Asphalt Shingles for Pennsylvania Roadways (Sponsor: Pennsylvania Department of Transportation)
    2. Enhanced Moisture Study (Sponsor: Wisconsin Department of Transportation, Wisconsin Highway Research Program)
    3.  Testing and Evaluation of Asphalt Binders and Asphalt Concrete Modified with Wacker Polymers (Sponsor: Wacker Chemical Corporation)
    4. A New Nondestructive Test Method for Simultaneous Measurement of Shear and Young’s Modulus of Asphalt Concrete Mixes
    5. Energy Harvesting from Highway Pavements
    6. A New Conditioning Protocol for Moisture Susceptibility Evaluation of Asphalt Concrete Mixes
    7. 1-Polymer Modified Cold Recycled Asphalt Evaluation and Methodology. For Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. By Mansour Solaimanian, Xuan Chen, Scott Milander, Pezhouhan Tavassoti Kheiry. July 27, 2015.
    8. Midwest Soil Stabilizer Specification Development for PennDOT Publication 447. For Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. By Mansour Solaimanian, Barry Scheetz, Xuan Chen, Scott Milander, Pezhouhan Tavassoti Kheiry. April 15, 2016.
    9. Nondestructive Evaluation of High RAP and High RAP/RAS Content Mixtures through Resonant Column Testing. For US Department of Transportation, Research & Innovative Technology Administration. By Pezhouhan Tavassoti Kheiry, Mansour Solaimanian and Tong Qiu. February 1, 2015.
    10. Nondestructive Evaluation of Warm Mix Asphalt through Resonant Column Testing. For Research & Innovative Technology Administration, US Department of Transportation. By Pezhouhan Tavassoti Kheiry, Mansour Solaimanian, and Tong Qiu. February 14, 2014.