Spring 2019 Kent Seminar Series wraps up
5/1/2019
The Spring 2019 Kent Seminar Series wrapped up another successful season. Students, researchers and professionals presented on a variety of transportation topics.
Featured speakers
The list of speakers and topics covered are as follows:
- Megan Kreiger, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center Construction Engineering Research Laboratory mechanical engineer, Additive Construction: 3D Printing for Infrastructure
- Sachindra Dahal, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign doctoral student, Re-engineering Continuously Reinforced Concrete Pavements
- Luis Guillermo Loría-Salazar, University of Costa Rica, Summary of 5 Years of Experiments at the PaveLab, the University of Costa Rica Full-Scale Accelerated Pavement Facility
- Charles Greer, Jr. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumnus, Pavement Design, Evaluation, and Maintenance at the World’s Busiest Airport
Professor Dan Zollinger at the Kent Seminar Series Meet ‘n Greet. - Dan Zollinger, Texas A&M University, Implications of the Effects of Interfaces on Concrete Pavement Performance
- Issam Qamhia, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign doctoral student, Evaluation of Chemically Stabilized Quarry Byproduct Applications in Base and Subbase Layers Through Accelerated Pavement Testing
- Haohang Huang, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign doctoral student, Field Imaging and Volumetric Reconstruction of Riprap Rock and Large-sized Aggregates: Algorithms and Application
- Zehui Zhu, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign doctoral student, Influence of Mix Design Parameters on Asphalt Concrete Aging Rate Using I-FIT Specimens
- Richa Bhardwaj, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign doctoral student, A Novel Joint Inspection Methodology Based On Image Analysis Approach For Concrete Pavement Construction
- Jose Rivera, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign doctoral student, Effect of Specimen Geometry and Test Configuration on the Fracture Process Zone for Asphalt Materials
- Punit Singhvi, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign doctoral student, Total Recycled Asphalt Mixes’ Characteristics and Field Performance
- Jordan Ouellet, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign doctoral student, Pre-cracking Cement-Treated Bases to Mitigate Shrinkage Stresses
Highlighted speaker
Luis Loría-Salazar, a University of Costa Rica professor, was this year’s Kent Seminar Series highlighted speaker. Loría-Salazar earned his civil engineering bachelor’s degree at the University of Costa Rica in 1998, and went on to obtain his master’s and doctoral degrees at the University of Nevada-Reno in 2007 and 2011, respectively. In 2014, he earned the rank of professor at the University of Costa Rica.
In addition to his teaching duties, Loría-Salazar researches pavement design, science of materials, technical specifications, and quality control methods for road projects at the National Laboratory of Testing Materials and Structural Models. In January, Loría-Salazar assumed vice presidency of the International Society for Asphalt Pavements.
ICT thanks all of the Spring 2019 Kent Seminar speakers. Your contributions to the Kent Seminar Series is why it continues to be a success. Kent Seminars are broadcasted live on YouTube.