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Chiu Liu, P.E. (CA, PA, & NM), Assistant Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Office : Tolentine Hall - Room 145
Phone : 610-519-4967; Fax: 610-519-6754
email : chiu.liu@villanova.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D. (Civil Engineering & Physics),  University of Texas
B.S. (Physics) CSU, Fresno

AWARDS/HONORS

 

	Associate Editor of Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering
	Editorial Board Member for Journal of Pavement Engineering
	Committee Member of ACI 555 on Recycled Materials
	Committee Member of TRB AFD20 on Road Profile Characterization (www.trb.org)
	ITE Villanova Chapter Advisor
	Invited Speaker for the 1st  International Conference on Highway Widening in Nan Jing, Oct. 2004
	Invited Speaker for the 1st Sino-US International Conference on Pavement Technology in Shanghai, Nov. 2003
	Invited Speaker by NACOTA on "Errors of Loop-Measured Congestion," presented for NACOTA Committee in Trans. Res. Board Meeting, Jan. 15, 2003
	Invited Speaker  in the 1st Sino-US International Conference on Transportation organized by NACOTA & TongJi University, TongJi University, Shanghai, China, Jun. 2nd, 2001
	Registered PE in State of California
	Registered PE in State of New Mxico
	Registered PE in State of Pennsylvania
	Who is Who in Science & Engineering
	Who is Who in America
	Best Paper Award from the Journal of Transportation Engineering 1998
	Member of Sigma Xi
	Member of ASCE (www.asce.org)
	Member of the ACI International  (www.aci-int.org)
	Member of the ASM International (www.asm-intl.org)

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

 

Dr. Liu has years of rich experiences in performing excellent scientific and engineering research and practicing engineering in various interdisciplinary areas, including interfacial properties of materials, asphalt concrete durability, cement based concrete strength, mass concrete, massive use of recycled materials, long term rehabilitation of roads, distress development on pavement surfaces, driver-vehicle-road dynamic interactions, pavement management systems, geometric design of roads, signal timing for controlled intersections, intermodal studies,  urban planning, vehicle emission, forecast of transportation activities, chaotic motion of electrons in the geomagnetic field, nonlinear dynamical systems, and quantized charge transport devices.  Prior joining the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering in Villanova University, he was working for California DOT as a material/corrosion engineer, performing research on mass concrete, beam bending, sand-jack failure concerning future construction of the San Francisco-Bay Bridge.  Currently, he is involved with composite/construction material characterization and characterization of large scale infrastructure systems. 

 

CURRENT RESEARCH

• Interfacial Characterization of Composite Construction Materials

• Characterization of Civil Engineering Materials
• Distress Development in Composite Construction Materials
• Heat Removal  from Mass Concrete 
• Heat Propagation in Concrete Materials & its Effect on Concrete Material Properties
• Evolution of Infrastructure Systems
• Integration Design of Roads
• Pavement Profile Evolution-Vehicle Road Dynamic Interaction
• Traffic Flow Theories-Geometric Design-Vehicle Mechanics
• Transportation Planning-Fuel Consumption-Vehicle Emissions
• GIS Base Planning of Infrastructure Systems
• Signal Timing-Human Perception-Intersection Physical Conditions
• Human Perception & Geometric Design of Roads
• Ride Quality of Roads-Vehicle Dynamics -Human Response to Vibration Environments (http://www.shell.linux.se/joho/)
• Quality Control/ Quality Assurance of Constructions
• Automobile Accident Studies & Driving Environments

 

COURSES TAUGHT

• Advanced Civil Engineering Materials (Graduate)
• Pavement Dynamics and Design (Graduate)
• Theory of Traffic (Graduate)
• Mechanics of Solids
• Statics & Dynamics
• Civil Engineering Materials
• Introduction to Transportation Engineering
• Advanced Transportation Facility Design
• Advanced Transportation Engineering
• Probability and Statistics in Civil Engineering Design
• Probability & Numerical Analysis
• Transportation Design (Capstone) 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

Dr. Liu has done pioneer works in many research areas and written papers on strength of asphalt-concrete materials, strength and cracking in cementitious-based materials, interfaces of materials, vehicle-road dynamic interaction, recycled materials, granular materials, fatigue behavior of materials, pavement management & rehabilitation, heat dissipation in materials, smart materials, non-conventional fiber reinforced concrete, NDT of pavements and bridges,  road profile evolution, nonlinear dynamic systems, geometric design of freeways, signal timing, network level traffic operations, freeway control and operation, intelligent transportation systems, charge transfer devices, band theory in solid states, and plasma in the geomagnetic fields.  

 

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