UIUC/ICT Plans Big Presence at TRB
Several UIUC and ICT investigators will be presenting their research at the upcoming 89th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) on January 10-14, 2010, in Washington, D.C. The following are topics that will be presented and/or published; they are listed in order of TRB paper number:10-0408: Reflective Cracking Analysis for Hot-Mix Asphalt Overlay with Steel Netting Interlayer System Considering Existing Jointed Concrete Pavement Conditions (Jongeun Baek and Imad Al-Qadi, partially based on ICT 58)
10-0439: Traveling Purchaser Problem with Stochastic Commodity Prices (Seungmo Kang and Yanfeng Ouyang)
10-0440: Effects of Failure Correlation on Reliable Facility Location: Continuum Approximation Approach (Xiaopeng Li and Yanfeng Ouyang)
10-0442: Heuristic Approach to Railroad Track Maintenance Crew Scheduling (Fan Peng, Seungmo Kang, Xiaopeng Li, Yanfeng Ouyang, Kamalesh Somani and Dharma Acharya)
10-0443: Optimal Locomotive Fueling Schedule and Location in Railroad Networks (Mohammad Seyed Nourbakhsh and Yanfeng Ouyang)
10-0444: Biofuel Refinery Location and Biomass Transportation Planning Under Traffic Congestion (Yun Bai, Taesung Hwang, Seungmo Kang and Yanfeng Ouyang)
10-0448: Reliable Sensor Location for Network Traffic Surveillance (Xiaopeng Li and Yanfeng Ouyang)
10-0562: Railroad Ballast Evaluation Using Ground Penetrating Radar: Laboratory Investigation and Field Validation (Zhen Leng and Imad Al-Qadi)
10-0657: Thresholds Identification and Field Validation of the Performance Based Guidelines for the Selection of Hot-Poured Crack Sealants (Shih-Hsien Yang, Imad Al-Qadi, Jim McGraw, and J-F. Masson)
10-1115: Near-Surface Pavement Failure Under Multiaxial Stress State in Thick Asphalt Pavement (Hao Wang and Imad Al-Qadi, partially based on ICT R59)
10-1553: Dynamic Analysis of Thin Asphalt Pavements Utilizing Cross-Anisotropic Stress-Dependent Properties for Granular Layer (Imad Al-Qadi, Hao Wang, and Erol Tutumluer)
10-1735: In-Place Hot-Mix Asphalt Density Estimation Using Ground Penetrating Radar (Imad Al-Qadi, Zhen Leng, Samer Lahouar, and Jonguen Baek)
10-1804: Optimization of the Railroad Network Track Class (Yung-Cheng Lai; National Taiwan University, Mark H Dingler; Sin-Yu Lin, National Taiwan University)
10-2135: Optimizing Train Network Routing with Heterogeneous Traffic (Yung-Cheng Lai, National Taiwan University; Mark H Dingler; Chung-En Hsu and Pei-Chun Chiang, National Taiwan University)
10-2233: Fibrous Bridge Deck Concrete Overlay: Parameters of Investigation and Preliminary Experimental Results (Based on ICT 27-57 by Mohammad Alhassan and Suleiman Ashur)
10-2264: Development of A Realistic Hot-Mix Asphalt Fatigure Model Considering Low and High Cycles (Pyeong Jun Yoo and Imad Al-Qadi)
10-2278: Quantifying Effects of Particle Shape and Type and Amount of Fines on Unbound Aggregate Performance through Controlled Gradation (Debakanta Mishra, Erol Tutumluer, and Abbas Butt)
10-2287: Unbound Aggregate Deformation Behavior Due To Traffic Wander - An Investigation Using Discrete Element Modeling (Phillip Donovan, Erol Tutumluer, and Hai Huang)
10-2301: Discrete Element Modeling of Fouled Railroad Ballast Behavior (Hai Huang, Erol Tutumluer, Youssef Hashash, and Jamshid Ghaboussi)
10-2324: Expansive Characteristics of Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement (RAP) Used as Base Materials (Derya Deniz, Erol Tutumluer, and John Popovics)
10-2411: Investigation of Potential Concrete Tie Rail Seat Deterioration Mechanisms: Cavitation Erosion and Hydraulic Pressure Cracking (John Zeman, J.R. Edwards, David Lange, and Chris Barkan)
10-2823: Effect of Train Speed on Railroad Hazardous Materials Transportation Route Risk Analysis (Athaphon Kawprasert and Christopher P.L. Barkan)
10-2848: A Review of the Effects of CBTC and ECP Brakes on Railroad Capacity (Mark Dingler and Chris Barkan)
10-3565: Runway Instrumentation and Response Measurements (Imad Al-Qadi; Silvia Portas and Mauro Coni, University of Cagliari; and Samer Lahouar, University of Sousee)
10-3689: Stiffening Mechanisms of Asphalt-Aggregate Mixtures: from Binder to Mixture (Minkyum Kim and Bill Buttlar)
10-2411: Investigation of Potential Concrete Tie Rail Seat Deterioration Mechanisms: Cavitation Erosion and Hydraulic Pressure Cracking." (J.C. Zeman, J.R. Edwards, D.A. Lange, and C.P.L. Barkan)
10-3959: Comprehensive Database of Asphalt Concrete Fracture Energy And Links To Field Performance (Bill Buttlar, Sarfraz Ahmed, Eshan Dave, and Andrew Braham)