OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
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| The major objective of the pavement engineering research at Oregon State is to provide recommendations to construct transportation infrastructure that is more cost effective, socially beneficial, and does less damage to the environment. Professors Erdem Coleri and Jason Weiss lead research in the pavement engineering area. Learn more | The School of Civil and Construction Engineering engages in a wide variety of research, education, and technical transfer activities in Transportation-related areas. Learn more | The Infrastructure Materials focus area at Oregon State University emphasizes the fundamental understanding of materials and property relationships, microstructural development and its impact on long-term performance, durability and sustainability of civil and construction engineering materials, principles of green construction and materials selection as well as rehabilitation, assessment and repair of infrastructure with a focus on materials aspects. Learn more | ||
The major objective of the pavement engineering research at Oregon State is to provide recommendations to construct transportation infrastructure that is more cost effective, socially beneficial, and does less damage to the environment. Professors Erdem Coleri abd Jason Weiss lead research in the pavement engineering area.
The Pavement Materials and Structures Laboratory is equipped to conduct modeling and testing in several areas of pavement technology including asphalt binder and mixture characterization, aggregate characterization, asphalt mix and structural design, concrete materials testing, and concrete pavement design. Research conducted at the Pavement Materials and Structures lab encourages the use of more sustainable pavement materials, such as permeable pavements, rubber asphalt, warm-mix asphalt technologies, recycled asphalt pavements, recycled concrete, and alternative cement binders. The lab is also equipped with computational modeling tools to investigate possible applications of pavement design strategies that can have a considerable impact on fuel consumption, vehicle maintenance costs, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and lifecycle costs. The laboratory enables researchers to develop research programs to study pavement materials at both the applied and basic research levels.
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The School of Civil and Construction Engineering engages in a wide variety of research, education, and technical transfer activities in Transportation-related areas. Professors Erdem Coleri, Salvador Hernandez, Katharine Hunter-Zaworski, David Hurwitz , Robert Layton, and Haizhong Wang, are pursuing threads of research emphasis that include Transportation Safety (user behavior, heavy vehicles, mixed-mode crashes, and statistical modeling), Multi-hazard Evacuation (lifeline corridors, evacuation modeling, and disaster logistics), Traffic Control Devices (signal phasing, timing, and display, sign and pavement marking comprehension and response), Accessible Transportation (improved design of passenger transport vehicles) and Freight Transportation and Logistics (freight planning and intermodal freight systems modeling). These research endeavors leverage the resources of the Driving and Bicycling Research Laboratory and the Accessible Transportation Laboratory. Additionally, the transportation engineering faculty have continuously offered a series of transportation safety workshops for 32 years across Oregon and the Pacific Northwest.
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The Infrastructure Materials focus area at Oregon State University emphasizes the fundamental understanding of materials and property relationships, microstructural development and its impact on long-term performance, durability and sustainability of civil and construction engineering materials, principles of green construction and materials selection as well as rehabilitation, assessment and repair of infrastructure with a focus on materials aspects. Research opportunities abound and are supported in the suite of world-class Infrastructure Materials Laboratories, lead by Professors Erdem Coleri, Jason Ideker, Burkan Isgor, David Trejo, and Jason Weiss.
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