Muhammed Kutay
Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), College of Engineering
Engineering Bldg, 428 S Shaw Ln Room 3554
Biography
Dr. Kutay's background and interests are primarily on experimental and numerical investigation of fundamental material behavior of asphalt pavements and granular materials. His research focuses on improvement of the AASHTO Superpave mix design, understanding and better prediction of fatigue cracking in asphalt pavements using state-of-the-art techniques such as the Viscoelastic Continuum Damage (VECD)
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Theory and development of tools to improve understanding of permanent deformation (rutting) characteristics of asphalt pavements. His other research interests include pavement surface characteristics such as smoothness, tire/pavement noise and splash/spray.
Research Focus Areas:
Applications of 2D and 3D imaging techniques
Microstructural characterization of asphalt pavements
Image-based measurement technologies
Sustainable asphalt pavements
Crumb rubber modified asphalt
Warm mix asphalt
Inverse analysis from field non-destructive testing
Backcalculation of dynamic modulus mastercurve of asphalt pavements
Linear and Nonlinear properties of base/subgrade
Constitutive modeling of asphalt pavements (e.g., Viscoelastic Continuum Damage (VECD) Theory)
3D micromechanical modeling
Asphalt mixture compaction
Warm mix asphalt mixing/coating process
Saturated and unsaturated fluid flow through porous media
Courses Taught:
CE312 - Soil Mechanics
CE838 - Bituminous Materials
CE815 - Slope Stability and Stabilization Techniques
CE495 - Senior (Capstone) Design - Geotechnical
Education
University of Maryland: Ph.D., Civil & Environmental Engineering (Geotechnical & Pavements) (2005)
University of Maryland-College Park: M.S., Civil & Environmental Engineering (2002)
Middle East Technical University, Ankara-Turkey: B.S., Civil Engineering (2001)
Awards
ASCE Arthur M. Wellington Prize (2009)
Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists (AAPT) Walter J. Emmons Award for the best paper presented at the April 2008 Annual Meeting held in Philadelphia, PA (2009)
ASCE Collingwood Prize for the paper: Kutay, M.E., and Aydilek, A.H. (2007) "Dynamic Effects on Moisture Transport in Asphalt Concrete".
ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering, Vol. 133, No. 7, July 2007, pp. 406-414. (2008)
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Saravanathiiban, D., Kutay, M. E., Khire, M. (2014) "Effect of Macropore Morphology on Preferential Flow through Saturated Soil: A Lattice Boltzmann Study".
Computers and Geotechnics, Volume 59, Pages 44-53
Ozturk, H.I., Kutay, M.E. and Littrup, G. (2013) "A Novel Testing Procedure for Foamed Warm Mix Asphalt Binders" ASCE Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)MT.1943-5533.0000924.
Ozturk, H.I. and Kutay, M.E. (2013) "An Artificial Neural Network Model for Virtual Superpave Asphalt Mixture Design".
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