Asphalt Materials Performance Lab is on the cover of Momentum magazine

Dr. Erdem Coleri, Associate Professor  (CV)

Bio: Erdem Coleri received his Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Davis (2011) with specialization in pavement materials and structures. Dr. Coleri joined OSU in September 2014 after working as a postdoctoral scholar and a project scientist at the University of California Pavement Research Center for three years. He has also worked as a Technical Consultant for Sensys Networks, Inc., which is a leading provider of wireless traffic detection and integrated traffic data systems. His research interests are in the areas of sustainable pavement materials and structures, energy efficient pavement design strategies, and infrastructure health monitoring using wireless sensor networks.

Education 

Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA, USA, 2011.

M.S., Civil Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 2007.

B.S., Civil Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 2005.  

Research Interests:

  • Characterization of asphalt and concrete pavement materials
  • Recycled asphalt concrete mixtures at high replacement contents
  • Sustainable strategies for pavement design
  • Network level pavement sustainability
  • Modeling the effect of pavement roughness and stiffness on fuel consumption
  • Multiscale finite element modeling of pavement materials and structures
  • Wireless sensor networks (WSN) for infrastructure health monitoring 
  • Data mining, analysis and performance modeling from laboratory, accelerated pavement and field tests

Memberships

  • 04/2012 - present: Committee member, AFK50 committee of Transportation Research Board, Characteristics of Asphalt Paving Mixtures to Meet Structural Requirements.
  • 04/2013-present: Committee member, AFD40 committee of Transportation Research Board, Full-Scale Accelerated Pavement Testing.
  • 11/2012 - present: Committee member, Mechanics of Pavements Committee, Engineering Mechanics Institute, American Society of Civil Engineers. 
  • Member of the conference scientific committee for the International Airfield and Highway Pavements Conference, Miami, FL, 2015.
  • Member of the young professional conference committee on accelerated pavement testing for the APT2012, 4th International Conference on Accelerated Pavement Testing, Davis, CA, 2012.