Imad L. Al-Qadi
The Founder Professor of Engineering
ICT, Director; ATREL, Director
Group: Transportation
1203 Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory
205 North Mathews Avenue
Urbana, Illinois 61801

(217)265-0427

Professional Engineer:
PA, VA

Areas of Interest:
Pavements including material characterization, design, analysis, modeling, and performance prediction; Nondestructive testing and evaluation, instrumentation, full scale testing, geosythetics in pavements, pavement fracture and reinforcment techniques.

Education:
 
  • PhD, Penn State , 1990
  • MEng, Penn State , 1986
  • BSCE, Yarmouk University , 1994
Work Experience:
 
  • The Founder Professor of Engineering, University of Illinois, 2004-Present (ATREL, Director 2004-Present; ICT, Director 2005-Present)
  • Charles E Via, Jr. Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Via Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2002-2004
  • Professor, Via Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech, 1998-2002 (Roadway Infrastructure Group Leader at Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, 1998-2004)
  • Associate Professor, Via Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech, 1994-1998 (Materials Program Coordinator, 95-98)
Professional Honors, Awards, and Recognitions:
 
  • Recipient of the D. Grant Mickle Award, Washington, DC, 2006
  • Recipient of the Limoges Medal of Merit, Limoges, France, 2004
  • Recipient of the International Geosynthetic Society Award, Nice, France, 2002.
  • Recipient of the Virginia Tech College of Engineering Dean's Award for Research Excellence, Blacksburg, VA, 2001
  • Recepient of the NSF Young Investigator Award, Washington, DC, 1994
Selected Courses Taught:
 
  • Asphalt Technology
  • Infrastructure Condition Assesment
  • Pavement Rehabilitation
  • Advanced Civil Engineering Materials
  • Pavement Design
Selected Projects (click here to visit the research projects page):
 
  • Reflective Cracking and Grooving of Airfield Asphalt Pavements
  • Evaluation of Tack and Bond of HMA Overlays of PCC
  • Evaluation of Pavement Damage due to New Tire Designs
  • Development of Predictive Design Models to Determine Pavement Damage Due to Different Axle Configurations
  • Development of Performance Based Guidelines for Hot-Poured Crack Sealant
  • Effectiveness of Geogrid in Flexible Pavements: Full-Scale Testing
  • Development of GPR Based Condition Indices for Railroad
  • Development of Premium Pavement Design
  • Development and Validation of a Testing Procedure to Estimate Hot-Mix Asphalt In-Situ Properties
  • Quality Control of New Pavements by GPR
Selected Publication Titles:
 
  • Elseifi, M. A., I. L. Al-Qadi, and P. J. Yoo, “Viscoelastic Modeling and Field Validation of Flexible Pavements,” Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, Vol. 132, No. 2, 2006, pp. 172-178.
  • Al-Qadi, I. L. and S. Lahouar, "Use of GPR for Thickness Measurement and Quality Control of Flexible Pavements," The Journal of APPT, Vol. 73, 2004, pp. 501-528.
  • Al-Qadi, I. L. and M. A. Elseifi, “Mechanism and modeling of transverse cracking development in continuously reinforced concrete pavement,” International Journal of Pavement Engineering, Vol. 7, No. 4, 2006, pp. 341-349.
  • Loulizi, A., I. L. Al-Qadi, and S. Lahouar, "Ground Penetrating Radar Signal Modeling to Assess Concrete Structures," ACI Materials Journal, Vol. 99, No. 3, May-Jun 2002, pp. 282-291.
  • Al-Qadi, I. L., M. A. Elseifi, and P. J. Yoo, “Characterization of Pavement Damage due to Different Tire Configurations,” The Journal of AAPT, Vol. 74, 2005, pp. 921-962.
  • Al-Qadi, I. L., O. A. Hazim, W. Su, and S. M. Riad, "Dielectric Properties of Portland Cement Concrete at Low RF Frequencies," Journal of Civil Engineering Materials, ASCE, Vol. 7, No. 3, Aug 1995, pp. 192-198.
  • Al-Qadi, I. L. and S. Lahouar, “Detection of Asphalt Binder Aging in Flexible Pavement by Ground Penetrating Radar,” Materials Evaluation Journal, ASNT, Vol. 63, No. 9, 2005, pp. 921-925.
  • Al-Qadi, I. L., M. Elseifi, and D. Leonard, "Steel Reinforcing Nettings Mechanism to Delay Reflective Cracking in Asphalt Concrete Overlays," the Journal of AAPT, Vol. 82, 2003, pp. 388-423.
  • Elseifi, M. A. and I. L. Al-Qadi, “Modeling and Validation of Strain Energy Absorbers for Rehabilitated Cracked Flexible Pavements,” Journal of Transportation Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 131, No. 9, 2005, pp. 653-661.
  • Al-Qadi, I. L., A. Loulizi, M. Elseifi, and S. Lahouar, "The Virginia Smart Road : The Impact of Pavement Instrumentation on Understanding Pavement Performance," The Journal of APPT, Vol. 73, 2004, pp. 427-466.

Last Updated: 3/10/2008