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Dr. Serji N. Amirkhanian

Serji Amirkhanian
Contact Information:
Office: 212 Lowry Hall
Phone: (864) 656-3316
FAX: (864) 656-2670
email Dr. Amirkhanian

Alumni Distinguished Professor
Mays Professor of Transportation
Director, Asphalt Rubber Technology Service

Areas of Interest:
Highway Construction
Construction Materials
Use of Solid Waste Materials in Highway Construction

Education:
B.S.C.E, 1979, Tennessee Technological University
M.S., Civil Engineering, 1981, Tennessee Technological University
Ph.D., Civil Engineering, 1987, Clemson University

Classes typically taught:
CE 351 Civil Engineering Material
CE 438 Construction Support Operations
CE 813 Pavement Design
CE 823 Asphalt Concrete Properties

Professional Society Membership:
American Society of Civil Engineers

Sample Publications:
Lee, S.-J., Akisetty, C. K., Amirkhanian, S., "Recycling of laboratory-prepared long-term aged binders containing crumb rubber modifier." Construction and Building Materials (In press).

Lee, S.-J., Amirkhanian, S., Shatanawi, K., Kim, K. W., "Short-term aging characterization of asphalt binders using gel permeation chromatography and selected Superpave binder tests." Construction and Building Materials (In press).

Lee, S.-J., Akisetty, C. K., Amirkhanian, S. "The effect of crumb rubber modifier on the performance properties of rubberized binders in HMA pavements." Construction and Building Materials (In press).

Lee, S.-J., Amirkhanian, S., Kwon, S. Z., "The effects of compaction temperature on CRM mixtures made with the SGC and the Marshall compactor." Construction and Building Materials (In press).

Junan Shen, Serji Amirkhanian, Auna Jennifer (2007), Influence of Rejuvenator on Superpave Recycled HMA, Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, ASCE, Volume 19, Number 5, pp 376-384.

Junan Shen, Serji Amirkhanian, Soon-Jae Lee (2007), HP-GPC Characterization of Recycling of Aged Rubber Modified Binders and Selected Properties, Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, ASCE, Volume 19, Number 6, pp 515-522.

Shen, Junan , Amirkhanian, Serji, and Tang, Boming (2007), Performance-based Properties of Rejuvenated Asphalt Binder Mixture, Construction and Building Materials ,Volume 21, Issue 5 , pp. 958-964.

Lee, S.-J., Amirkhanian, S., Putman, B., Kim, K. W., (2007) "A laboratory study of the effects of compaction on the volumetric and rutting properties of CRM asphalt mixtures." Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 19, No. 12, pp. 1079-1089.

Xiao F.P., Amirkhanian S. N. and Juang H.S. (2007) "Rutting Resistance of Rubberized Asphalt Concrete Pavement Containing Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement Mixtures" The Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering Vol. 19, No. 6, pp. 475-483.

Kim, K. W., Kim, K. A., Doh, Y. S. and Amirkhanian, S. N. (2006) "Estimation of binder viscosity using GPC without binder recovery," Inpress, Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, ASCE, 18(4).

Other:
Faculty Advisor, ASCE Concrete Canoe Team

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