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MATERIALS TESTING LABORATORY |
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The Infrastructure
Materials Testing Laboratory (IMTL) evaluates one of the most important
aspects of transportation, the infrastructure. More than 90% of U.S. highways
are built with hot-mix asphalt (HMA) concrete. IMTL focuses on the research
of asphalt materials and pavements.
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Pavement
Materials Research
- Pavement
Materials Characterization uses up-to-date technology to characterize
the fundamental engineering properties of
- Asphalt
cement (binder)
- Asphalt
mastics
- HMA
mixtures
- Portland
cement concrete
- Advanced
Asphalt Mixture Design involves the implementation and development of
- Superpave
technology
- Stone-mastic
asphalt (SMA)
- Optimization
of mixture structures
- Recycled
Materials in Pavements researches the use of
- Waste
automotive tires
- Recycled
asphalt pavement
- Recycled
Portland cement concrete
- Other
industrial byproducts
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Pavement
Testing and Analysis
- Accelerated
Pavement Testing
- Asphalt
pavement at the National Center for Asphalt Technology test track
for the Tennessee Department of Transportation
- Analysis
of the Louisiana Accelerated Loading Facility
- Federal
Highway Administration long-term pavement performance
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 Advanced
Material Modeling for Pavement Performance Prediction
- Constitutive
for asphalt mixtures
- Micro-mechanics
analyses of asphalt pavement performance
- Three-dimensional
Finite Element Analyses of Pavements
- Dynamic
finite element analyses of pavement responses
- Vehicle-pavement
dynamic interactions
- Pavement
performance predictions
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Contact
Dr. Baoshan
Huang
865-974-7713
bhuang@utk.edu
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