Ph.D. Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2006.
M. S. Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2001.
B. S. Material Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China, 1995.
ACCREDITATION:
Engineering in Training, Texas, Since 2001
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
August 2006 - present: Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering & Alaska Transportation Research Center, University of Fairbanks.
June 2001 - August 2006: Research Assistant, Texas Transportation Institute
September 1995 - December 1999: Research Assistant, State Key laboratory of Concrete Materials Research, China.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Infrastructure Materials - engineering characterization of asphalt cement, hot-mix asphalt mixtures (HMA), granular and stabilized bases, Portland cement concrete, and sustainable multifunctional composites.
Pavement Engineering - pavement design and testing, pavement repair and rehabilitation, non-destructive testing, and pavement management system (PMS).
Fracture Mechanics and Numerical Modeling - constitutive modeling and numerical simulation to characterize and predict material behaviors.
FUNDED RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
Characterization of Asphalt Treated Base Course Material
Screening Test of Gilsonite Application
Impact of Fines Content on Resilient Modulus Reduction of Base Courses during Thawing
COURSES TAUGHT
CE 334 Properties of Materials
ES 331 Mechanics of Materials
CE 693 Pavement Design
HONORS/AWARDS
“Who’s Who in Science and Engineering”, 9th Edition, Marquis Who'sWho®, 2006
Departmental fellowship, Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2006
“Who’s Who in America”, 60th Edition, Marquis Who'sWho®, 2005
First place award in Student Research Week competition, Texas A&M University, 2005
Fellow, the Graduate Teaching Academy, Texas A&M University, 2004
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
ASCE Highway Pavement Committee
International Society for Concrete Pavements
American Society of Civil Engineers
American Concrete Institute
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
Paper reviewer
ASCE Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering
Journal of ASTM International
Composites Part B: Engineering
ISCP (International Conference on Concrete Pavements)
Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies
Editorial review board, Scientific Journals International
Other
Co-chair, Organizing Committee, 6th International Conference on Traffic and Transportation Studies, 2008
Session Chair, Fifth International Conference on Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Pavements and Technological Control, 2007
CEE advisory board
Materials Ambassador (leader) of the Civil Engineering Women’s Mentoring Group, Texas A&M University, 2005-2006
Organizer of Materials and Pavement Graduate Students’ Seminar Series, Department of Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2005
Judge of undergraduates research competition, Student Research Week, Texas A&M University, 2004 ~ 2005
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Selected Journal Publications
J. Liu, D. G. Zollinger, and R. Lytton, “Detection of Delamination in Concrete Pavements using Ground-Coupled GPR Technique”, to be published in the 87th Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting (under review), 2007.
J. Liu and B. Chen, “Property of High Strength Concrete Made with Field-Demolished Concrete Aggregates”, to be published in the 87th Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting (under review), 2007.
X. Zhang and J. Liu, “A New Method to Determine the Shapes of Yield Curves for Unsaturated Soils”, to be published in the 87th Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting (under review), 2007.
J. Liu, A. Mukhopadhyay, and D. G. Zollinger, “Laboratory Investigation of Influencing Factors on Early-Age Delamination in CRC Pavements Made with Gravel Aggregates”, ASCE Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering (under review), 2007.
J. Liu, X. Zhang, and D. G. Zollinger, “A Two-Step Fracture Mechanics-based Approach for Assessing Early-age Delamination Distress”, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2016, pp. 76-84, 2007.
B. Chen, and J. Liu, “Experimental Application of Mineral Admixtures in Lightweight Concrete with High Strength and Workability”, Construction and Building Materials (in press), 2007.
B. Chen and J. Liu, “Mechanical properties of polymer-modified concretes containing expanded polystyrene beads”, Construction and Building Materials, pp 7-11, Vol 21, No. 1, Jan 2007.
J. Liu, and D. G. Zollinger, “Feasibility of Using Accelerated Thin Bonded Concrete Overlay for CRCP Spalling Repair”, International Journal of Pavement Engineering (under review), 2006.
B. Chen, J. Liu and K. Wu, “Electrical response of carbon fiber reinforced cementitious composites to monotonic and cyclic loading”, Cement and Concrete Research, pp 2183-2191, Vol 35, No. 11 2005.
B. Chen and J. Liu, “Contribution of hybrid fibers on the properties of the high-strength lightweight concrete having good workability”, Cement and Concrete Research, pp 913-917, Vol 35, No. 5, 2005.
J. Liu, D. G. Zollinger, S. Tayabji, and K. Smith, “Application of Reliability Concept in Concrete Pavement Rehabilitation Decision Making”, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 1905, pp 25~35, 2005.
B. Chen and J. Liu, “Properties of lightweight expanded polystyrene concrete reinforced with steel fiber”, Cement and Concrete Research, pp 1259-1263, Vol 34, No. 7, 2004.
B. Chen and J. Liu, “Experimental Study on AE Characteristics of Three- point-bending Concrete Beams”, Cement and Concrete Research, pp 391~397, Vol 34, No.3, 2004.
B. Chen and J. Liu, “Effect of Fibers on Expansion of Concrete with a Large Amount of High f-CaO Fly Ash”, Cement and Concrete Research, pp 1549~1552, Vol 33, No. 10, 2003.
K. Wu, A. Yan, J. Liu and D. Zhang, “Reconstruction and Analysis of 3-D Profile of Fracture Surface of Concrete”, Cement and Concrete Research, pp981~987, Vol 30, 2000.
K. Wu, J. Liu, D. Zhang and A. Yan, “Rupture Probability of Coarse Aggregate on Fracture Surface of Concrete”, Cement and Concrete Research, pp1983~1987,Vol 29, 1999.
D. Zhang, J. Liu, B. Chen and K. Wu, “Analysis of the Determination of Fracture Energy of Concrete Using Three-point-bending Method”, Journal of Building Materials, pp210~215, Vol2. No.3, 1999 (in Chinese).
J. Liu, K. Wu and D. Zhang, “Application of Image Analysis Technique in Research of Fracture Surface of Concrete”, China Concrete and Cement products, pp6~9, No.2, 1999 (in Chinese).
L. Zhang, B. Chen and J. Liu, “Research on the Effect of Aggregate Size on Mechanical Performance of Concrete Using Supersonic and Acoustic Emission Technology”, Building Construction, pp49~53, No.2, 1999 (in Chinese).
J. Liu, H. Yu and H. Zhu, “Elementary Exploration of High-Strength Concrete Mix Proportion Design”, Housing Science, pp28~31, No.12, 1998 (in Chinese).
D. Zhang, J. Liu and K. Wu, “Experimental Research and Analysis of Fracture Properties of High Strength Concrete”, China Concrete and Cement products, pp5~9, No.5, 1998 (in Chinese).
Selected Conference Papers
J. Liu, “A Case Study of Accelerated Spalling Repair of CRCP”, 6th International Conference on Traffic and Transportation Studies (accepted), 2007.
J. Liu, D. G. Zollinger, and R. Lytton, “Detection of Delamination in Concrete Pavements using Ground-Coupled GPR Technique”, International conference on Advanced Characterization of Pavement and Soil Engineering Materials, Athens, Greece, 2007.
J. Liu, A. Mukhopadhyay, and D. G. Zollinger, “Selecting Construction Measures for Mitigating Early-age Delamination in CRC Pavements made with Gravel Aggregates”, the 86th Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., 2007.
J. Liu, D. Ye, and D. G. Zollinger, “Design and Evaluation of Mitigating Early Age Delamination in CRC Pavements Made with Gravel Aggregates”, 6th International DUT-Workshop on Fundamental Modeling of Design and Performance of Concrete Pavements, Belgium, 2006.
J. Liu, A. Mukhopadhyay, and D. G. Zollinger, “Selection of Design Factors for the Use of Gravel in CRC Paving”, Proceeding of the 2006 Airfield and Highway Pavement Specialty Conference, Al-Qadi ed., Transportation and Development Institute of the ASCE, ASCE, Reston, Georgia, pp 557-565.
J. Liu, A. Mukhopadhyay, and D. G. Zollinger, “Contribution of Aggregates to the Bonding Performance of Concrete”, the 85th Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., January 2006.
J. Liu and D. G. Zollinger, “Shrinkage Effect on Stress Intensity Factors of Concrete Pavements at Early Age”, Workshop on Fracture Mechanics for Concrete Pavements, International Society for Concrete pavements, 2005.
J. Liu, D. G. Zollinger, S. Tayabji, and K. Smith, “SAPER: Tool for Selecting Concrete Pavement Repair and Rehabilitation Treatments”, the 83rd Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., 2004.
D. Cheng, C. J. Messer, Z. Tian and J. Liu, “Modification of Webster’s Minimum Delay Cycle Length Equation Based on HCM 2000”, the 82nd Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., 2003.
J. Liu, “Repair and Rehabilitation Strategies Selection for Concrete Pavements”, 4th International Ph.D. Symposium in Civil Engineering, Munich, Germany, 2002.
Technical Reports
J. Liu, “Screening Test of Gilsonite Application”, Alaska University Transportation Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks, AK, 2007.
J. Liu, A. Mukhopadhyay, and D. G. Zollinger, “Best Practices for the Use of Siliceous River Gravel in Concrete Paving”, FHWA/TX-07/0-4826-1, Texas Transportation Institute, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 2006.
J. Liu, D. G. Zollinger, S. Tayabji, and K. Smith, “Repair and Rehabilitation of Concrete Pavement: Volume IV”, FHWA-01-00080, Texas Transportation Institute, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 2004.
J. Liu and D. G. Zollinger, “Application of a bonded concrete overlay to a CRCP in Texas”, Performance of Innovative Maintenance Techniques and Strategies FORMAT WP3 Report, European Community, 2004.
Theses
J. Liu, “Early Age Delamination in Concrete Pavements Made with Gravel Aggregates”, Ph.D dissertation, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 2006.
J. Liu, “Tool Developing of MRR Strategy Selection”, MS Thesis, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 2001.
J. Liu, “Technology of High Strength Concrete”, BS Thesis, Tongji University, Shanghai, China, 1995 (in Chinese).
Presentations
Selecting Construction Measures for Mitigating Early-age Delamination in CRC Pavements made with Gravel Aggregates, the 86th TRB Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., January 2007.
A Two-Step Fracture Mechanics-based Approach for Assessing Early-age Delamination Distress, the 86th TRB Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., January 2007.
Selection of Design Factors for the Use of Gravel in CRC Paving, The 2006 Airfield and Highway Pavement Specialty Conference, Transportation and Development Institute of the ASCE, Atlanta, Georgia, April 30 –May 3, 2006.
Early Age Delamination in Concrete Pavements Made with Gravel Aggregates, the Utah State Transportation Seminar, Logan, Utah, 2006.
Materials and Infrastructure, guest speaker in class of CE 207 Introduction to Civil Engineering Profession, Texas A&M University, April 2006.
Research on Pavement and Infrastructure Engineering, NSF workshop for the Advancement and Retention of Underrepresented and Minority Engineering Educators, Arlington, Virginia, March 2006.
Aggregate Testing and the Effects of Aggregate Properties on Pavement Performance, the 85th TRB Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., January 2006.
Panel discussion in Civil Engineering Women’s Mentoring Group, Texas A&M University, September 2005.
Shrinkage Effect on Stress Intensity Factors of Concrete Pavements at Early Age, Workshop on Fracture Mechanics for Concrete Pavements, International Society for Concrete pavements, Copper Mountain, Colorado, August 2005.
