Mojtaba Khodadadi

Civil Engineer

Transportation and Highway Engineering

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Skills

  • Design of flexible and rigid pavements

  • Supervision and execution of pavement projects

  • Pavement management and maintenance

  • Geometric design of roads

  • Airport design

  • Numerical modeling

  • Machine learning

Academic Experience

Khajeh Nasir al-Din Toosi University of Technology

Since October 2023

Faculty Member, Civil Engineering Department
Amirkabir University of Technology

October 2018 to February 2024

Lecturer of Road Pavement Laboratory (Undergraduate Course)

Taught 43 class groups over 11 semesters.

Advanced Pavement Laboratory – Khajeh Nasir University & Amirkabir University

Since October 2014

Research Focus Areas

- Use of additives and bitumen modifiers (polymers, nano-materials, etc.)
- Study of recycled asphalt (RAP & RAM)
- Moisture sensitivity in asphalt pavements
- Surface free energy method for fatigue life prediction
- Fatigue cracking analysis of asphalt pavement
- Rutting research and installation of Wheel Track equipment at Amirkabir University
- Reflective cracking in asphalt pavement
- Geosynthetics and geogrid applications in pavement
- Study on porous and SMA asphalt
- Self-healing properties of bitumen and asphalt mixtures
- Performance tests for bitumen (MSCR, BBR, PG grading)
- Use of waste materials in asphalt
- Acoustic emission method for damage detection in asphalt mixtures

Advanced Bitumen Laboratory – Akam Bitumen Company, Qom

Specialized Expertise

Technical Skills

- Proficiency in performance grading (PG) of bitumen using DSR (Anton Paar)
- Expertise in single-piece and two-piece self-healing tests
- Advanced understanding of LAS test and analysis
- Programming for specialized experiments using RHEOPLUS software & DSR
- Low-temperature bitumen analysis with BBR testing