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Kamal Khayat

Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation; Vernon and Maralee Jones Professor of Civil Engineering

Disciplines

  • Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Civil Engineering
  • Structural Engineering

Research Interests

  • Design and performance of advanced construction and repair materials, including high-performance concrete, self-consolidating concrete, underwater concrete, and specialty grouts
  • Rheology and workability of cement-based materials
  • Optimization of chemical admixtures and supplementary cementitous materials and fillers for concrete

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  1. Civil Engineering

Discipline

    1. Civil Engineering
    2. Structural Engineering 4
    3. Materials Science and Engineering 2
    4. Engineering Education 1
    5. Transportation Engineering 1

Research Interest

    1. Academic Development 1
    2. Acoustics-based NDTs 1
    3. Adaptive passive dampers and systems 1
    4. Advanced Materials Characterization and Modeling 1
    5. Alternative cements 1
    1. Application of building code provisions 1
    2. Asphalt Binders 1
    3. Asphalt Modifications 1
    4. Behavior and design of cold formed steel structures 1
    5. Behavior of bolted and welded connections 1
    6. Bridge engineering 1
    7. CO2 mineralization 1
    8. Carbon mineralization 1
    9. Cold-Formed Steel Structures 1
    10. Concrete repair and rehabilitation 1
    11. Design and behavior of light steel construction 1
    12. Design and performance of advanced construction and repair materials, including high-performance concrete, self-consolidating concrete, underwater concrete, and specialty grouts 1
    13. Design of plates and shells 1
    14. Deterioration mechanisms of sea sand concrete and marine concrete structures 1
    15. Development of novel test methods to evaluate rheology and workability of cement-based materials 1
    16. Environmental Aspects of Road Material Recycling 1
    17. Fiber reinforcement 1
    18. Forensic study, seismic analysis and retrofit 1
    19. Future cements 1
    20. Hydration kinetics of (blended) cementitious materials 1
    21. Infrastructure Sustainability 1
    22. Instrumentation and structural health monitoring of structures 1
    23. Interface mechanics and deterioration of composite structures 1
    24. Load and resistance factor design of steel structures 1
    25. Magnesia-phosphate cement (MPC) and MPC-based functional materials 1
    26. Measuring and multi-scale modeling of transport properties of concrete 1
    27. Mechanisms and properties of novel construction/rehabilitation materials 1
    28. Microstructural characterization and modeling of cement paste, interfacial transition zone and mortar/concrete 1
    29. Microstructure of cement-based materials 1
    30. Molecular simulation of C-S-H 1
    31. Multi-hazards assessment and mitigation 1
    32. Optimization of chemical admixtures and supplementary cementitous materials and fillers for concrete 1
    33. Pavement Design and Analysis 1
    34. Pavement Materials 1
    35. Quality Control/Assurance 1
    36. Recycled Materials 1
    37. Repair and rehabilitation of civil engineering infrastructure 1
    38. Rheology and workability of cement-based materials 1
    39. Road Materials and Construction 1
    40. Soil-structure interaction 1
    41. Solid waste recycling 1
    42. Solid waste utilization 1
    43. Structural health monitoring 1
    44. Structural stability 1
    45. Sustainability Research 1

Organization

    1. Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering 10
    2. INSPIRE-University Transportation Center 2
    3. Center for Research in Energy and Environment (CREE) 2
    4. Wei-Wen Yu Center for Cold-Formed Steel Structures 1
    5. Mid-America Transportation Center 1

Position

    1. Faculty Member 8
    2. Emeritus Faculty 1
    3. Non-Faculty Academic Position 1