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Our new paper in Construction and Building Materials on sulfur-extended asphalt is now available online. Thank you to great collaborators for working on this paper together! For the next 50 days, interested readers can use the following link to access our article free of charge: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1cxlh3O1E1Mnww

I am proud and excited to announce that our lab has a new publication in Road Materials and Pavement Design on cracking indicators for asphalt binder! Congratulations to my co-author, UIUC undergrad Scott Young on his first journal publication. Our paper can be found here: https://doi.org/10.1080/14680629.2021.1906734 and will also be presented as part of EATA …

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Even in this unprecedented crisis, we should enjoy and celebrate our successes. This morning, I am happy to announce a new paper published in Construction and Building Materials. This paper is the culmination of years of hard work to develop a method for extracting asphalt binder from small specimens of mixture or RAP and assess …

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As we deal with this unprecedented crisis in the United States and around the world, it’s always nice to get some good news. Yesterday, our article about the inverse stereology principle for converting 3D weight gradations to 2D volume gradations was published in Road Materials and Pavement Design. Thanks to my collaborators at the University …

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I’m proud to announce that I successfully defended my dissertation and submitted the final draft to the Graduate School at UT-Austin. In January 2020, I will be joining the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as an Assistant Professor.