Rigid Pavements

Texas A&M Transportation Institute
1111 RELLIS Parkway
Room 3168
Bryan, TX 77807
(979) 317-2298
[email protected]

Dr. Mukhopadhyay is also an adjunct professor in Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University. Dr. Mukhopadhyay has over 29 years of experience in industry and academia focusing on research and project management related to materials, durability, testing, and repair of concrete pavement/bridges with extensive experience in developing innovative test methods related to concrete durability (e.g., ASR in aggregate/concrete, cement paste rheology, modified methylene blue test) and has been actively involved in developing, improving, and implementing technologies for bridges and highway/airfield concrete pavements for more than 23 years. He has served/been serving as a principal investigator (PI) / Co-PI in numerous research projects sponsored by the Innovative Pavement Research Foundation (IPRF) / Airfield Asphalt Pavement Technology Program (AAPTP) under the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), TxDOT, Idaho Transportation Department (ITD), NCIT National UTC Project fund, Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT), Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), Bureau of Reclamation, Los Alamos National Laboratories, and other private industries (Headwaters, Sinacola) related to his areas of expertise.

Dr. Mukhopadhyay is a nationally and internationally recognized expert in concrete durability and has been invited to conduct workshops, serve as a session moderator and chair, keynote speaker, speaker in the Plenary Session, and invited speaker at several national and international conferences. His areas of research include concrete durability (main area ASR), recycled and waste materials, cement chemistry, development of special cements, coal combustion by-products (conventional supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) such as fly ashes, fluidized bed ashes, alternative SCMs such as natural pozzolans, ground glass, etc.), cement paste rheology, dense-graded concrete and mobility, high-performance concrete (HPC), ultra-high-performance concrete (UHPC), and nano-materials. During his research work, he developed expertise in petrographic techniques (optical microscopes, SEM/EDS) along with other microstructural characterization techniques (QXRD, PSA, DTA/TG, XRF, MIP, X-Ray CT) to ensure the effective application of material science aspects of cement, aggregate, and concrete and characterization of concrete microstructures.
 
He served as the Chair ACI 221 committee (Aggregate) and has been serving as a voting member of ACI 201-H (aggregate reaction under durability), 236 (material science), 240 (Pozzolans), 241 (nanotechnology), 242 (alternative cements), 555 (Recycled materials) and an associate member of ACI 201 (concrete durability), 232 (fly ash in concrete); voting member of TRB committees AKM 50 (Advanced Concrete Materials and Characterization); voting member of (i) C09.24 - Supplementary Cementitious Materials, (ii) C09.50 - Aggregate Reactions in Concrete, (iii) C09.65 – Petrography, (iv) special cement (C01.13). Dr. Mukhopadhyay has authored several publications, including 85 refereed publications and 17 technical reports. Dr. Mukhopadhyay developed an advanced concrete materials Lab in the New CIR-TTI Facilities in Rellis Campus, Texas A&M University, and received several instrument grants to buy advanced equipment. He is the Director of the Concrete Innovation Lab, CIR.