Bio-Based and Bio-Inspired Pavement Construction Materials

Dr. Ellie Fini is an Associate Professor at Arizona State University, an Invention Ambassador at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fulbright Scholar at Aalborg University of Denmark, a Senior Sustainability Scientist at the Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation, and Director of the Innovation Network for Materials, Methods and Management. Her research focuses on the production, characterization, and atomistic modeling of sustainable novel materials for use in construction. Her research has been covered by BBC Women in STEM, Science Nation, Wired Magazine, and CNBC, in addition to more than 200 scholarly papers and several invited lectures. Pouria Hajikarimi is a young Assistant Professor at the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran. His main research field is experimental and numerical modeling of viscoelastic materials, especially bituminous composites including modified asphalt binders, asphalt mastic, asphalt mortar and asphalt mixtures, using finite element methods to simulate different aspects of rheological and mechanical behavior in both continuous and discontinuous medium. Recently, he has been focused on multi-scale experimental and numerical modeling of bituminous composites as well as application of machine learning methods to predict their behavior. He published more than 30 high-quality research papers and 25 national and international conference papers.

1. Introduction to Bio-Based and Bio-Inspired Pavement Construction Materials 2. Sources and Production of Bio-Based and Bio-Inspired Pavement Construction Materials 3. Experimental Characterization for Bio-Based and Bio-Inspired Pavement Construction Materials 4. Numerical Modelling and Simulation of Bio-Based and Bio-Inspired Pavement Construction Materials 5. Application of Bio-Based and Bio-Inspired Pavement Construction Materials 6. Supply Chain Management and Life Cycle Cost Analysis of Bio-Based and Bio-Inspired Pavement Construction Materials 7. Environmental Assessment of Bio-Based and Bio-Inspired Pavement Construction Materials 8. Current and Prospective Challenges of Bio-Based and Bio-Inspired Pavement Construction Materials