Imen Zaabar

About

Interests: Dr. Zaabar's research interests are in the areas of pavement response and performance modeling, dynamics of pavements and truck-pavement interaction, pavement surface roughness, infrastructure sustainability and Surface Properties - Vehicle Interaction, pavement preservation, and characterization of asphalt concrete mixtures. Recent research has been focused on (i) models for estimating the effect of pavement surface condition on vehicle operating costs, (ii) infrastructure sustainability, (iii) Surface Properties - Vehicle Interaction, (iv) assessment of pavement acceptance criteria, (v) the effect of heavy trucks with large axle groups on pavement performance, (vi) the development of roughness diagnosis tools for PMS application, and (vii) dynamic back calculation of flexible

Education

• Michigan State University: Ph.D., Civil Engineering - Pavements and Materials

Selected publications

• “Estimating Vehicle Operating Costs Due To Pavement Surface Conditions”, I. Zaabar and K.Chatti, Transportation Research Records: Journal of Transportation Research Board, 2014.
• “Backcalculation Of Asphalt Concrete Modulus Master Curve From Field Measured Falling Weight Deflectometer Data Using A New Time Domain Viscoelastic Dynamic Solution And Genetic Algorithm”, I. Zaabar, K.Chatti, H. S. Lee, and N. Lajnef, Transportation Research Records: Journal of Transportation Research Board, 2014 (In print).
• “A New Mechanistic-Empirical Approach for Estimating the Effect of Roughness on Vehicle Durability”, I. Zaabar and K.Chatti, Transportation Research Records: Journal of Transportation Research Board, Issue 2227, 2011, pp. 180-188.
• “Calibration of HDM4 Models for Estimating the Effect of Pavement Roughness on Fuel Consumption for US Conditions”, I. Zaabar and K.Chatti, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, Issue 2155, 2010, pp. 105-116.
• "Effect of Pavement Surface Conditions on Sustainable Transport", K. Chatti and I. Zaabar; Climate Change, Energy, Sustainability and Pavements; Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp173-246, 2014.