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Research Associate Professor

Kasthurirangan Gopalakrishnan's interest areas include sustainable highway and airport pavements and materials, big data mining and knowledge discovery in transportation infrastructure, nature-inspired meta-heuristics in civil engineering, smart pavement sensing and monitoring, and renewable energy co-products utilization in pavement applications.

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Kasthurirangan Gopalakrishnan's interest areas include sustainable highway and airport pavements and materials, big data mining and knowledge discovery in transportation infrastructure, nature-inspired meta-heuristics in civil engineering, smart pavement sensing and monitoring, and renewable energy co-products utilization in pavement applications.

Present	Research Associate Professor, Iowa State University ‐ Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
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Civil and Environmental Engineering

Transportation Infrastructure Systems, Sustainability, and Artificial Intelligence Applications

354 Town Engr

Ames, IA 50011-3232

Phone: 515-294-3044

Fax: 515-294-8216

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Peer-Reviewed Articles (7)

Carbon fiber-based electrically conductive concrete for salt-free deicing of pavements

Journal of Cleaner Production (2018)

Alireza Sassani, Ali Arabzadeh, Halil Ceylan, Sunghwan Kim, et al.

Traditional methods of removing snow/ice from pavements involve application of deicing salts and mechanical removal that carry environmental concerns. In ...

Electrically-conductive asphalt mastic: Temperature dependence and heating efficiency

Materials & Design (2018)

Ali Arabzadeh, Halil Ceylan, Sunghwan Kim, Alireza Sassani, et al.

Asphalt mastic, a pitch-matrix composite, consists of bitumen and mineral fillers (very fine aggregates), that fills the voids created by ...

Development of Carbon Fiber-modified Electrically Conductive Concrete for Implementation in ...

Case Studies in Construction Materials (2018)

Alireza Sassani, Halil Ceylan, Sunghwan Kim, Ali Arabzadeh, et al.

This paper reports on the procedures of mix design preparation, production, placement, and performance evaluation of the first electrically conductive ...

Construction Techniques for Electrically Conductive Heated Pavement Systems

Construction Research Congress 2018 (2018)

Hesham Abdualla, Halil Ceylan, Kristen S. Cetin, Sunghwan Kim, et al.

Ice and snow accumulation on airport paved surfaces has the potential to cause fatal accidents and monetary loss due to ...

Electrically Conductive Mortar Characterization for Self-Heating Airfield Concrete Pavement Mix ...

International Journal of Pavement Research and Technology (2015)

Kasthurirangan Gopalakrishnan, Halil Ceylan, Sunghwan Kim, Shuo Yang, et al.

The overall objective of this paper is to investigate the types and proportions of nano-carbon based conductive materials (carbon powders ...

Assessment of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Geothermal Heated Airport Pavement ...

International Journal of Pavement Research and Technology (2015)

Weibin Shen, Kasthurirangan Gopalakrishnan, Sunghwan Kim and Halil Ceylan

Geothermal heated pavement systems (GHPS), viz., the use of geothermal energy to heat pavements, have been used as an efficient ...

Impact of farm equipment loading on low-volume concrete road structural ...

The Baltic Journal of Road and Bridge Engineering (2014)

Halil Ceylan, Shiyun Wang, Sunghwan Kim, Kasthurirangan Gopalakrishnan, et al.

The rapid increase in farm equipment size in the United States of America agricultural industry has raised significant concerns regarding ...

Hydronic Heated Pavement System Using Precast Concrete Pavement for Airport ...

International Conference on Transportation and Development (2018)

Hesham Abdualla, Halil Ceylan, Sunghwan Kim, Peter C. Taylor, et al.

The use of deicing chemical has the potential to cause environmental and safety concerns and pavement deterioration. Hydronic heated pavement ...

Investigating the Heat Generation Efficiency of Electrically-Conductive Asphalt Mastic Using ...

International Conference on Transportation and Development (2018)

Ali Arabzadeh, Halil Ceylan, Sunghwan Kim, Alireza Sassani, et al.

One of the emerging technologies for producing sustainable ice-and snow-free pavements is the use of electrically-conductive surface courses, e.g., electrically-conductive ...

Developing Rigid Airport Pavement Multiple-Slab Response Models for Top-Down Cracking ...

TRB 96th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers (2017)

Halil Ceylan, Orhan Kaya, Adel Rezaei Tarahomi, Kasthurirangan Gopalakrishnan, et al.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has recognized for some time that its current rigid 44 pavement design model, involving a ...

Local Calibration Studies on DARWin-ME/Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide Jointed ...

TRB 92nd Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers (2013)

Sunghwan Kim, Halil Ceylan, Di Ma and Kasthurirangan Gopalakrishnan

The AASHTO Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG) pavement performance models and the associated AASHTOWare® pavement design software of DARWin-ME are ...

Development of a Wireless MEMS Multifunction Sensor System and Field ...

Tech Transfer Summaries (2016)

Halil Ceylan, Liang Dong, Shuo Yang, Yueyi Jiao, et al.

Pavements tend to deteriorate with time under repeated traffic and/or environmental loading. By detecting pavement distresses and damage early enough, ...

Development of a Wireless MEMS Multifunction Sensor System and Field ...

InTrans Project Reports (2016)

Halil Ceylan, Seval Yavas, Liang Dong, Yueyi Jiao, et al.

Pavements tend to deteriorate with time under repeated traffic and/or environmental loading. By detecting pavement distresses and damage early enough, ...

Development of a Wireless MEMS Multifunction Sensor System and Field ...

InTrans Project Reports (2016)

Halil Ceylan, Peter Taylor, Liang Dong, Seval Yavas, et al.

This two-pronged study evaluated the performance of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) micro-electromechanical sensors and systems (MEMS) embedded in concrete pavement (Final ...

Impact of Curling and Warping on Concrete Pavement

InTrans Project Reports (2016)

Halil Ceylan, Kasthurirangan Gopalakrishnan, Sunghwan Kim, Peter Taylor, et al.

Portland cement concrete (PCC) pavement undergoes repeated environmental load-related deflection resulting from temperature and moisture variations across the pavement depth. ...

Impact of Curling and Warping on Concrete Pavement

Tech Transfer Summaries (2016)

Halil Ceylan, Kasthurirangan Gopalakrishnan, Sunghwan Kim, Peter Taylor, et al.

Portland cement concrete (PCC) pavement undergoes repeated environmental load-related deflection resulting from temperature and moisture variations across the pavement depth. ...

Development and Evaluation of a Portable Device for Measuring Curling ...

InTrans Project Reports (2016)

Halil Ceylan, Robert F. Steffes, Kasthurirangan Gopalakrishnan, Sunghwan Kim, et al.

Portland cement concrete (PCC) pavement undergoes repeated environmental load-related deflection resulting from temperature and moisture variations across pavement depth. This ...

Machine-Vision-Based Roadway Health Monitoring and Assessment: Development of a Shape-Based ...

InTrans Project Reports (2016)

Teng Wang, Kasthurirangan Gopalakrishnan, Arun K. Somani, Omar G. Smadi, et al.

State highway agencies (SHAs) routinely employ semi-automated and automated image-based methods for network-level pavement-cracking data collection, and there are different ...

Machine-Vision-Based Roadway Health Monitoring and Assessment: Development of a Shape-Based ...

Tech Transfer Summaries (2016)

Kasthurirangan Gopalakrishnan, Omar G. Smadi, Halil Ceylan, Koray Celik, et al.

State highway agencies (SHAs) routinely employ semi-automated and automated image-based methods for network-level pavement-cracking data collection, and there are different ...

Investigation of AASHTOWare Pavement ME Design/DARWin-MEPerformance Prediction Models for ...

InTrans Project Reports (2015)

Halil Ceylan, Sunghwan Kim, Orhan Kaya and Kasthurirangan Gopalakrishnan

The Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG) was developed under National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Project 1-37A as a novel ...

Investigation of AASHTOWare Pavement ME Design/DARWinME Performance Prediction Models ...

Tech Transfer Summaries (2015)

Halil Ceylan, Kasthurirangan Gopalakrishnan and Sunghwan Kim

The Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG) was developed under National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Project 1-37A as a novel ...

The Productive Academic Writer: An Easy-To-Read Gide to Low-Stress Prolific ...

Kasthurirangan Gopalakrishnan

Are you an academic feeling stressed out because of the increasing demands placed upon you to work harder and produce ...