SPONSORED RESEARCH - Funded
As Associate Professor at Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, INDIA:
As Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, INDIA:
As Senior Research Scientist at Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, INDIA:
As Assistant Research Professor at Arizona State University, USA
As Visiting Research Scientist at VTI – Swedish National Road & Transport Research Institute, Linkoping, Sweden
As Associate Professor at Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, INDIA:
- Principal Investigator, “Development of Warm-Mix Asphalt-Rubber (WM-AR) Mixture Standard Specifications and Design Practices for Road Applications”, New Faculty Seed Grant (NFSG), Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, India. June 2018 – May 2021
As Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, INDIA:
- Principal Investigator, “Standard Specifications and Design Practices for Asphalt-Rubber Gap-Graded (AR-Gap) Mixtures”, Science and Engineering Research Board, Scheme for Young Scientists, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. May 2014 – May 2017
- Principal Investigator, “Development of Crack Propagation Criteria for Asphalt Mixtures”, Institute Scheme for Innovative Research and Development (ISIRD), Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. April 2014 – March 2017
- Principal Investigator, “Development of Pervious Concrete Mix Designs and Specifications for Pavement Applications”, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Department of Higher Education, New Delhi, India. January 2014 – December 2018
- Co-Principal Investigator, “Investigation of the Use of Recycled Asphalt Pavements (RAP): Development of Design Specifications and Practices”, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Department of Higher Education, New India. January 2014 – December 2018
- Principal Investigator, “Performance Characterization of Reacted and Activated Rubber (RAR) Asphalt Mixtures”, Consulpav International, Portugal-USA. March 2015 – May 2017
- Principal Investigator, “State-of-the-Art Research Report on Asphalt-Rubber (AR) Overlays”, Tinna Rubber and Infrastructure Limited, New Delhi, India. February – April 2017
- Principal Investigator, “Testing of Modified Bitumen & Emulsions”, ASPAM Petronergy Private Limited (Unit of Gulf Petrochem), Vadodara, Gujarat, India. November 2014 – November 2015
- Principal Investigator, “Bitumen Testing of VG-30 Binder”, Gulf Asphalt Private Limited, Vadodara, Gujarat, India. November 2014 – January 2015
As Senior Research Scientist at Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, INDIA:
- Principal Investigator, “Development of a Pavement Management System for the City of Bangalore”, Center for infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation & Urban Planning, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India. December 2012 – July 2013
- Principal Investigator, “Understanding the Road Materials Aspects of Noise Pollution in Bangalore”, Center for infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation & Urban Planning, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India. December 2012 – July 2013
As Assistant Research Professor at Arizona State University, USA
- Co-Principal Investigator / Lead Researcher, “VTI – ASU Joint Collaboration Projects”, ASU Contract, funded by VTI, Swedish National Road & Transport Research Institute, Sweden. September 2009 – September 2012
- Co-Principal Investigator, “Asphalt-Rubber Research Projects”, ASU and Consulpav Contract, funded by Consulpav, Consulting Engineering for Pavement & Materials, USA-Portugal. Feb 2009 – September 2012
As Visiting Research Scientist at VTI – Swedish National Road & Transport Research Institute, Linkoping, Sweden
- Co-Investigator, “Development of Comprehensive Fatigue Criteria for Asphalt Mixtures”, funded by Department of Infrastructure Research, VTI, Sweden. January 2012 – September 2013
- Co-Investigator, “Development of Computational Methods to Predict Viscoelastic Properties of Asphalt Mixtures”, funded by Department of Infrastructure Research, VTI, Sweden. January 2012 – 2013
- Co-Investigator, “Development and Evaluation of Bio-asphalt (Utveckling och utvärdering av bioasfalt, TEMA ansökan Transportsystemet och klimatförändringar)”, funded by Swedish Transport Administration, Sweden. 2010 – 2012
- Co-Investigator, “Development of a Test Method / Procedure to Evaluate Fatigue Crack Propagation in Asphalt Mixtures”, funded by Swedish Transport Administration, Sweden. February 2010 – December 2011
- Lead Participant, “European Union directive project PERSUADE (PoroElastic Road SUrface: an innovation to Avoid Damages to the Environment)”, funded by European Commission, 7th Framework Programme, Brussels, Belgium. September 2009 – December 2012
Research Projects:
- Superior Performing Asphalt Mixtures with Enhanced Rubber Particles (2017-20)
- Pervious Concrete Pavements for Smart Cities (2017-20)
- Methodologies to Assess Pavement Assets using Image Processing & Machine Learning (2017-20)
- Field Implementation of Pervious Concrete Pavements: Correlation with Laboratory Parametric Relationships (2017-20)
- Hydrological Modeling of Pervious Concrete Paving Materials (2017-19)
- Standard Specifications and Design Practices for Asphalt-Rubber Gap-Graded (AR-Gap) Mixtures (2014-17)
- Development of Crack Propagation Criteria for Asphalt Mixtures (2014-17)
- Development of Pervious Concrete Mix Designs and Specifications for Pavement Applications (2014-18)
- State-of-the-Art Research Report on Asphalt-Rubber (AR) Overlays (2017)
- Performance Evaluation of Field Asphalt Mixtures Using Advanced Material Characterization Tests (2016-17)
- Field Test Sections of Pervious Concrete Pavement Systems: Construction Design & Performance Monitoring (2016-17)
- Field Test Sections of Asphalt-Rubber Gap-Graded (AR-Gap) Pavement Systems: Construction Design & Performance Monitoring (2016-17)
- Tire/Pavement Noise Evaluation using IIT Kharagpur Close-Proximity Noise Trailer: Field Measurements & Monitoring (2016-17)
- Effect of Compaction Types and Efforts on Pervious Concrete Mixture Properties (2016-17)
- Characterization of Nature and Behavior of Asphalt-Rubber Binders using Drainage Basket Method (2016-17)
- Material Characterization of Reacted and Activated Rubber Dense and Gap Graded Asphalt Mixtures (2015-16)
- Performance Characterization of Reacted and Activated Rubber Dense Graded Asphalt Mixtures (2015-16)
- Properties of Pervious Concrete Pavement Mixtures Containing Silica Fume and Crumb Rubber (2015-16)
- Investigations of Flexural Strength and Freeze-Thaw Durability of Pervious Concrete Mixes Modified with Sand and Fly ash (2015-16)
- Determination of Acoustical Characteristics of Pavement Surfaces (2015-16)
- Numerical Simulation of Pervious Concrete Pavement Mix Design using Discrete Element Modeling Techniques (2015-16)
- Investigations of Pore Properties of Pervious Concrete Pavement Mixtures using Biot’s Theory and Ultrasonic Pulse Velocity (2015-16)
- Estimation of Mixing and Compaction Temperatures of Asphalt Materials using different Approaches (2015-16)
- Investigation of Aging Characteristics of Asphalt Binders and Mixtures with Asphaltene as a Performance Indicator (2014-15)
- Development of Temperature Predictive Models using Thermophysical Properties of Various Pavement Systems (2014-15)
- Evaluation of Rutting Characteristics of Asphalt Mixtures based on E*/sinφ Stiffness Parameter (2014-15)
- Prioritization-Optimization based Pavement Management System (PO-PMS) (2014-15)
- Performance Characterization of Asphalt Mixtures using Natural Rubber and Styrene-Butadiene Rubber (2014-15)
- Prediction of Resilient Modulus Based on Binder Rheological Properties to Evaluate Rutting Performance of Asphalt Mixtures (2014-15)
- Laboratory Investigation of Evaporative Cooling Effect of Pavement Systems (2014-15)
- Understanding Rutting Characteristics of Asphalt-Rubber Mixtures using Wheel Tracker Device (2014-15)
- Investigation of Moisture Susceptibility of Asphalt Mixtures using Varying Conditioning Time Intervals (2014-15)
- Testing of Modified Bitumen & Emulsions (2014-15)
- Prediction of Remaining Fatigue Life of Flexible Pavements using Laboratory – Field Correlations (2013-14)
- Phase Angle Predictive Equation for Asphalt Mixtures using Rational Component Analysis (2013-14)
- Resilient Moduli Parameters of Modified Asphalt Mixes as an Input in the Indian Pavement Designs and Systems (2013-14)
- Prediction of Dynamic Moduli of Standard Indian Pavement Mixes (2013-14)
- Development of Comprehensive Fatigue Criteria for Asphalt Mixtures, funded by Department of Infrastructure Research, VTI, Swedish National Road & Transport Research Institute, Sweden (2012-13)
- Development of Advanced Pavement Engineering Laboratory at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, India (2013)
- Development of a Pavement Management System for the City of Bangalore, funded by Center for infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation and Urban Planning, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (2012-13)
- Understanding the Road Materials Aspects of Noise Pollution in Bangalore, funded by Center for infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation and Urban Planning, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (2012-13)
- Development of Computational Methods to Predict Viscoelastic Properties of Asphalt Mixtures, funded by Department of Infrastructure Research, VTI, Swedish National Road & Transport Research Institute, Sweden (2012-13)
- Development and Evaluation of Bio-asphalt (Utveckling och utvärdering av bioasfalt, TEMA ansökan Transportsystemet och klimatförändringar), VTI, Swedish National Road & Transport Research Institute, Sweden; funded by Swedish Transport Administration, Sweden (2010-12)
- VTI – ASU Joint Collaboration Projects funded by VTI, Swedish National Road & Transport Research Institute, Sweden (2009-12)
- Asphalt-Rubber Research Projects funded by Consulpav, Consulting Engineering for Pavement & Materials, USA-Portugal (2009-12)
- European Union directive project PERSUADE (PoroElastic Road SUrface: an innovation to Avoid Damages to the Environment), Sweden; funded by European Commission, 7th Framework Programme (2009-12)
- Development of a Test Method / Procedure to Evaluate Fatigue Crack Propagation in Asphalt Mixtures, VTI, Swedish National Road & Transport Research Institute, Sweden; funded by Swedish Transport Administration, Sweden (2010-11)
- Optimization of Thin Asphalt Layers, ERA-NET ROAD Project, National European Road Administrations (2009-10)
- Laboratory Pavement Performance Evaluation of Swedish Asphalt Concrete Mixtures, Swedish Road Administration, Göteborg, Sweden (2009)
- Laboratory Pavement Performance Evaluation of Swedish Gap Graded Asphalt Concrete Mixtures – Malmo E-06 Highway, Swedish Road Administration, Göteborg, Sweden (2008)
- Laboratory Evaluation of Swedish Asphalt Concrete Mixtures for Tire / Pavement Noise, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg & Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute, Linköping, Sweden (2007-08)
- Special Testing of the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) Asphalt Rubber Mixtures & Asphalt Rubber Database Development, Phoenix, Arizona, USA (2004-09): I-40, Two Guns – Dennison, I-40, Jackrabbit – Joseph City TI, I-40, Silver Springs – Fort Rock, I-17, Badger Springs – Big Bug, SR 260, Kohl’s Ranch Section, US 93, Burrow Creek Section, US 93, Antelope Wash Section, US70, Globe – Lordsburg and SR180, Flagstaff – Valle, I-40 Lake Havasu, Arizona, I-19 Palo Parado
- Evaluation of FORTA Reinforced Asphalt Mixtures Using Advanced Material Characterization Tests, FORTA Corporation, Grove City, Pennsylvania, USA (2006-08)
- Pavement Design Research towards the Implementation of the Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide, Maricopa County Department of Transportation, Phoenix, Arizona, USA (2006-08)
- Understanding Noise Mitigation of AR-ACFC Mixes Through Laboratory Evaluation of Storage and Loss Moduli, Arizona Transportation Research Centre, Phoenix, Arizona, USA (2005-06)
- Special Testing of the Alberta’s Asphalt Rubber Mixtures, Alberta Transportation, Canada (2004)