Research, education, and service activities in the field of pavements and related materials.
Overview
The Materials and Pavement group is devoted to promoting sustainable practices in pavement engineering, enhance understanding of distress mechanisms and failure modes, develop testing and conditioning procedures to improve material characterization, and develop design approaches for pavement systems that optimize performance.
About
Education for Leadership Roles
- Innovative foundation systems and lifelines
- Safer embankments and retention systems
- More effective pavement systems
- Enhanced performance construction materials
Research Focus Areas
- Nano-modification and polymer modification of materials
- Advanced sensing technologies
- Advanced experimental methods
- Geotechnical centrifuge
- Electron microscopy
- Interferometry
- Computer tomography
- Dynamic methods
- Multi-scale computer modeling
Research Outcomes
- Faster and more accurate condition assessment
- Enhanced performance and durability
- More effective specifications for materials and construction
- Real-time assessment techniques
- Guidelines for recycling waste materials
- Safer containment systems for waste
Research Benefits
- Reduced risk in engineering decisions
- Less pollution through recycling
- Reduced traffic disruption and highway user costs
- Lower maintenance and rehabilitation costs
- Sustainable and more reliable constructed infrastructure
Graduate Study Program
Master of Engineering (ME) or Master of Science (MS) Degree
People
Office
460B Weil Hall
Office
265J Weil Hall
Office
102 Sustainable Materials Management Research Laboratory
Office
265H Weil Hall
Office
470 Weil Hall
Office
128 Weil Hall
Office
460C Weil Hall
Office
265N Weil Hall
Office
265M Weil Hall
Office
265I Weil Hall
To view a full listing of each person’s profile, visit the Materials & Pavements category in our directory.
Facilities
- Geotechnical centrifuges
- Mobile field sensing equipment
- 20-ton in situ truck
- Geophysics and NOT
- Advanced materials characterization
- Variable Pressure SEM
- Laser interferometry
- Deep foundation test chamber
- Full-scale pipe testing facility
- Extensive geotechnical, concrete and asphalt laboratories
- 16 node Silicon Graphics Inc. parallel processor supercomputer
Latest News
Ferraro Receives Leadership Award from Concrete Institute
March 29, 2022Riding Named ACI Fellow
March 16, 2022Building Blocks – Christopher Ferraro
January 3, 2022UF NHERI Receives a Five-Year, $4.5 Million NSF Grant to Continue Wind Hazard Research and Expand K-12 Training Programs
January 13, 2021