Imen Zaabar
Specialist - Teacher
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
Engineering Bldg, 428 S Shaw Ln Room 3581
Biography
Interests: Dr. Zaabar's research interests are in the areas of pavement response and performance modeling, dynamics of pavements and truck-pavement interaction, pavement surface roughness, infrastructure sustainability and Surface Properties - Vehicle Interaction, pavement preservation, and characterization of asphalt concrete mixtures. Recent research has been focused on (i) models for estimating the effect of pavement surface condition on vehicle operating costs, (ii) infrastructure sustain
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Michigan State University: Ph.D., Civil Engineering - Pavements and Materials
Awards
Best Paper award by a young professional (2014), International Symposium on Pavement LCA, UC Davis
Outstanding Ph.D. student Fellowship (2010)
Institute of Transportation Engineers Michigan section Scholarship (2009)
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“Estimating Vehicle Operating Costs Due To Pavement Surface Conditions”, I. Zaabar and K.Chatti, Transportation Research Records: Journal of Transportation Research Board, 2014.
“Backcalculation Of Asphalt Concrete Modulus Master Curve From Field Measured Falling Weight Deflectometer Data Using A New Time Domain Viscoelastic Dynamic Solution And Genetic Algorithm”, I. Zaabar, K.Chatti, H. S. Lee, and N. Lajnef, Transportation Research Records: Journal of Transportation Research Board, 2014 (In print).
“A New Mechanistic-Empirical Approach for Estimating the Effect of Roughness on Vehicle Durability”, I. Zaabar and K.Chatti, Transportation Research Records: Journal of Transportation Research Board, Issue 2227, 2011, pp. 180-188.
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