Research Field Structural Engineering
- Design of asphalt, rigid and block pavement constructions for highly loaded road and industrial areas
- Optimisation of building material and structure of road areas and airfields on the basis of functional requirements
- Development, simulation and structural monitoring of innovative constructions for road and airfield pavements
- Large-scale tests & long-term monitoring of innovative structures
- Development of the basics for the establishment and revision of guidelines in road constructions
Key Research Areas
- Development of tools for structural analysis for flexible, semi-rigid and rigid structures based on numerical methods (finite element methods, multiscale modelling)
- Development of constitutive material models for bituminous building materials
- Modelling of load and climate induced changes of road characteristics during the life cycle
- Implementation of probabilistic approaches in performance and failure prediction models to address real stresses and varying material properties of pavement structures
Current Research Projects
- EcoRoads – sustainable rigid pavements, repair or rehabilitation of damaged or underdimesioned Asphalt roads using the Whitetopping construction method
- Simplifying time-consuming performance based test methods on asphalt mix level by correlating performance of asphalt mix to mastic and bitumen level (VEGAS)
- Consideration of the frost sensitivity of soils in the design of road pavements
- Road construction support and assessment of the "LayJet" construction method for broadband expansion in rural areas (project phase II)
- Block Pavement Constructions (FQP)
