Title: Highway Asset Management and Best Practice in Tennessee
Speaker: Prof. Baoshan Huang (Civil Engineering at the University of Tennessee)
Time: Monday, October 10, 2016, 3:00 pm
Venue: 604, Jiaotong Building, Wushan Campus
Contents:
Highway forms the backbones of the US economy. As the highway network has been mostly complete, the main focus of highway agencies has been shifted from new construction into maintenance and management. The Federal Highway issued a highway provision in 2012, MAP-21 – Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century, which requires each state to establish plans for a risk based asset management plan for the National Highway System (NHS) to improve or preserve the condition of the assets and the performance of the system. As part of the team, the University of Tennessee has developed optimized pavement maintenance plans according to the historical pavement performance data. Several statistical approaches were utilized to identify the most significant factors affecting pavement distresses as well as the best practices in selecting pavement preventive maintenance procedures as well as the optimal time of treatments.
Introduction of the speaker:
Dr. Baoshan Huang is the Edwin G Burdette Endowed Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Tennessee – Knoxville, where he has been employed since January 2002. He earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees at Tongji University in China and a Ph.D. at Louisiana State University. His areas of research include transportation infrastructure materials, pavement engineering, geotechnical engineering, and infrastructural asset management. Over the last fifteen years of his professional career, Dr. Huang has secured over eight million dollars of research funding to support his research activities. He has been actively involved in many professional committees, including the Transportation Research Board (TRB), Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists (AAPT), American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), and the International Society of Asphalt Pavement (ISAP). He was the chair of the ASCE Bituminous Materials Committee (BMC) during 2010 – 2012, and has been an associate editor for the ASCE Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering since 2003. Dr. Huang has published over 120 (SCI Indexed) journal papers and holds three US patents (two pending) on innovative infrastructure materials design and characterization. Dr. Huang’s journal publications have been cited over 1260 times by the Web of Science (SCI) with an H-Index = 20.
