Materials & Pavements

Materials & Pavements

Research, education, and service activities in the field of pavements and related materials.

Overview

The Materials and Pavement group is devoted to promoting sustainable practices in pavement engineering, enhance understanding of distress mechanisms and failure modes, develop testing and conditioning procedures to improve material characterization, and develop design approaches for pavement systems that optimize performance.

ADMISSIONS AND FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

About

Education for Leadership Roles

  • Innovative foundation systems and lifelines
  • Safer embankments and retention systems
  • More effective pavement systems
  • Enhanced performance construction materials

Research Focus Areas

  • Nano-modification and polymer modification of materials
  • Advanced sensing technologies
  • Advanced experimental methods
  • Geotechnical centrifuge
  • Electron microscopy
  • Interferometry
  • Computer tomography
  • Dynamic methods
  • Multi-scale computer modeling

Research Outcomes

  • Faster and more accurate condition assessment
  • Enhanced performance and durability
  • More effective specifications for materials and construction
  • Real-time assessment techniques
  • Guidelines for recycling waste materials
  • Safer containment systems for waste

Research Benefits

  • Reduced risk in engineering decisions
  • Less pollution through recycling
  • Reduced traffic disruption and highway user costs
  • Lower maintenance and rehabilitation costs
  • Sustainable and more reliable constructed infrastructure

Graduate Study Program

Master of Engineering (ME) or Master of Science (MS) Degree

People

Photo of Christopher Ferraro Christopher Ferraro Associate Professor
(352) 392-0959

Office
460B Weil Hall

Photo of Dennis Hiltunen Dennis Hiltunen Professor
352-294-7767

Office
265J Weil Hall

Photo of Steven Laux Steven Laux Professor of Practice
382-871-7069

Office
102 Sustainable Materials Management Research Laboratory

Photo of George Lopp George Lopp Associate In
352-294-7825

Office
265H Weil Hall

Photo of Fazil Najafi Fazil Najafi Professor
(352) 294-7790

Office
470 Weil Hall

Photo of Taylor Rawlinson Taylor Rawlinson Assistant Engineering
(352) 846-3526

Office
128 Weil Hall

Photo of Kyle Riding Kyle Riding Professor
(352) 294-1628

Office
460C Weil Hall

Photo of Reynaldo Roque Reynaldo Roque Professor Emeritus
(352) 294-7769

Office
265N Weil Hall

Photo of Mang Tia Mang Tia Professor
352-294-7768

Office
265M Weil Hall

Photo of Jian Zou Jian Zou Research Assistant Scientist
(352) 294-7799

Office
265I Weil Hall

To view a full listing of each person’s profile, visit the Materials & Pavements category in our directory.

Facilities

  • Geotechnical centrifuges
  • Mobile field sensing equipment
  • 20-ton in situ truck
  • Geophysics and NOT
  • Advanced materials characterization
  • Variable Pressure SEM
  • Laser interferometry
  • Deep foundation test chamber
  • Full-scale pipe testing facility
  • Extensive geotechnical, concrete and asphalt laboratories
  • 16 node Silicon Graphics Inc. parallel processor supercomputer

Latest News

Read more