Pejoohan Tavassoti
(Pezhouhan Tavassoti-Kheiry)



           


Current Research

  1. Towards Smart and Sustainable Pavement Structures in Canada", National Research Council Canada (NRC), Artificial Intelligence for Logistics Program
  2. An Enhanced Pavement Design Framework to Account for the Climate Change Impacts, Innovative Materials, Pavement Reinforcement, and Sustainability.
  3. Optimizing the use of recycled industrial waste plastic materials in asphalt binder and mixes", NSERC Alliance Program
  4. Nonlinear Analysis of Asphalt and Asphalt Concrete Behavior (You can watch a short video about this here! )
  5. 3-Dimensional Construction Printing: Materials and Robotics
  6. 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.
  7. 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
  8. Evaluation of Rutting and Moisture Damage Sensitivity of Asphalt Concrete Mixes. Sponsor Nova Scotia Transportation and Infrastructure Rehabilitation (NSTIR)


    9. 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. Polymer Modified Cold Recycled Asphalt Evaluation and Methodology. For Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.
    8. Midwest Soil Stabilizer Specification Development for PennDOT Publication 447. For Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.
    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.
    10. Nondestructive Evaluation of Warm Mix Asphalt through Resonant Column Testing. For Research & Innovative Technology Administration, US Department of Transportation.