- Asphalt Pavement Performance Evaluation
- Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring
- Polymer Nanocomposites and Properties
- Innovative concrete reinforcement materials
- Polymer composites and self-healing
- Corrosion Behavior and Inhibition
- Natural Fiber Reinforced Composites
- Tribology and Wear Analysis
- Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures
- Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
- biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties
- Concrete and Cement Materials Research
- Transport Systems and Technology
- Building materials and conservation
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Material Properties and Failure Mechanisms
- Adsorption, diffusion, and thermodynamic properties of materials
- Petroleum Processing and Analysis
- Synthesis and properties of polymers
- Lignin and Wood Chemistry
- Smart Materials for Construction
- Thermal and Kinetic Analysis
- Epoxy Resin Curing Processes
- Fiber-reinforced polymer composites
- Recycled Aggregate Concrete Performance
Rowan University
2022-2024
Arizona State University
2019-2024
Engineering Systems (United States)
2022-2024
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
2017
The aim of the study is to understand and achieve storage stable, compatible plastic-modified asphalt binders. In view global plastic accumulation, potentiality polymeric waste plastics evaluated as an binder modifier; providing alternate recycling option. However, due phase separation issues between plastic, usage preferred through dry mixing in mixture. this study, compatibility polyethylene-modified was assessed along with appropriate parameters that can explain actual occurring during...
This study examines the effects of five biomodifiers on aging and rejuvenation biomodified rubberized bitumen. It further discusses challenges associated with restoration reuse aged bitumen, especially bitumen located in a geographic area high ultraviolet intensity. Exposing to oxidation changes its colloidal stability, whereas content asphaltene increases, aromatics decreases as progresses. In addition, bitumen's evolution during includes oxidation, aromatization, chain scission,...
The recycling of scrap tire rubber requires high levels energy, which poses challenges to its proper valorization. application in construction significant mechanical and/or chemical treatment compatiblize it with the surrounding matrix. These methods are energy-consuming and costly may lead environmental concerns associated leachates. Furthermore, recent usually call for single-size particles or a narrow particle size distribution; this, turn, adds pre-processing cost. Here, we used...
This study investigated the compatibility of waste plastic, a serious environmental and recycling concern, with styrene-butadiene-styrene (SBS) in asphalt binders. An extensive storage stability analysis binders modified varying dosages low-density polyethylene (LDPE) from postcommercial usage SBS as compatibilizer understanding behaviors each component was conducted this study. Although SBS-LDPE blends were stable separation index terms G*/sin δ, percent recovery multiple stress creep...
This study involves using warm-mix additives (WMA) to produce binders that can aid compaction at low temperatures during cold weather paving. For this purpose, a performance grade (PG) 58-28 asphalt binder was chosen as control and modified with four different WMA (Rediset, Evotherm, Zycotherm, Sasobit Redux). The impact of on properties evaluated PG, linear amplitude sweep, cracking device (ABCD) tests. use did not have any the PG base binder, suggesting WMAs be used aid. ABCD results also...
Groundwater contaminant has been a serious issue to environmental engineers for long time. To simulate groundwater flow condition, three-dimensional subsurface transport model with advection, dispersion and reaction developed predict of continuous source pollutant. Numerical forward-time-central-space scheme used solve the advection-dispersion-reaction variational data assimilation (3DVar) four dimensional (4DVar) schemes have purpose. Then these two were compared previously implemented...