M. Emin Kutay, Ph.D.
Laboratory Manager

Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center (TFHRC)

Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)

6300 Georgetown Pike, Room F114,

McLean, Virginia USA 22101-2296

Office:   (202) 493-3093       

Fax:       (202) 493-3161

E-mail:   mkutay@fhwa.dot.gov 

 

 

 

Education


(2005) Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland at College Park

(2002) M.S.  in Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland at College Park

(2001) B.S.  in Civil Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara-Turkey

 

Interests and Expertise

·         Pavement engineering

o        Material characterization of asphalt mixtures

o        Analytical and numerical modeling techniques

o        Moisture damage and moisture transport modeling in asphalt pavements

·         Computer vision, image analysis and processing

o        3D imaging using X-ray computed tomography

o        Image-based measurement technologies during laboratory testing

·         Pavement surface characteristics

o        Pavement smoothness, tire-pavement noise and splash-spray

·         Computational fluid dynamics in engineering

o        Lattice Boltzmann method

o        Flow through granular media

·         Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental engineering

o        Geosynthetics

o        Reuse of industrial by-products

 

 

 

 

Services and Memberships

 

·         Associate Member of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

·         Member of ASCE Transportation & Development Institute (T&DI)-Highway Pavement Committee

·         Member of ASTM Committee E-17, Vehicle-Pavement Interactions.

·         Member of ASTM Committee D-04, Road and Paving Materials.

·         Member of TRB AFS50 Modeling Techniques in Geomechanics Committee

·         Member of TRB AFD90 Surface Properties-Vehicle Interaction

·         Reviewer for the International Journal of Pavement Engineering

·         Reviewer for the ASCE Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering

·         Reviewer for the Computer Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering

·         Reviewer for the International Journal of Road Materials and Pavement Design

·         Reviewer for the ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering

·         Reviewer for the ASCE Geo-Institute GSP

·         Reviewer for the North American Geosynthetics Society (NAGS)

·         Reviewer for 16th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ICSMGE)

 

 

Publications

 

Articles in Refereed Journals

 

Kutay, M.E., Gibson, N.H. and Youtcheff, J. (2008) “Conventional and Viscoelastic Continuum Damage (VECD) based Fatigue Analysis of Polymer Modified Asphalt Pavements”, Journal of the Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists, Accepted.

You, Z., Adhikari, S, and Kutay, M.E. (2008) “Dynamic Modulus Simulation of the Asphalt Concrete using the X-ray Computed Tomography Images”, Materials and Structures, In Review.

Arambula, E. and Kutay, M. E. (2007) “Evaluation of a Controlled-Stress Push-Pull Fatigue Test Using Fracture Methods and Observed Field Performance”, International Journal of Road Materials and Pavement Design, In review.

Kutay, M.E., Gibson, N. H., Youtcheff, J., and Qi, X. (2007) “Fatigue and Healing Analysis of Asphalt Mixtures with Modified Binders used in ALF Pooled Fund Study”, ASCE Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering. In review.

Kutay, M.E., Aydilek, A.H., Masad, E., and Harman, T. (2007) “Computational and Experimental Evaluation of Hydraulic Conductivity Anisotropy in Hot Mix Asphalt”, International Journal of Pavement Engineering. Vol. 8, Issue 1, pp. 29-43.

Kutay, M.E., Aydilek, A.H., and Masad, E. (2007) “Estimation of Directional Permeability of HMA Based on Numerical Simulation of Micro-scale Water Flow”, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2001, TRB, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., 2007, pp. 29-36.

Kutay, M.E., Weaver, E., and Wiser, L. (2007) “Development of Correction Functions for Spectral Compatibility of Inertial Profilers Used in the LTPP Program”, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2005, TRB, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., 2007, pp. 145-152.

Tanesi, J., Kutay, M.E., Abbas, A., and Meininger, R. (2007) “Effect of Coefficient of Thermal Expansion Variability on Concrete Pavement Performance as Predicted Using Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide”, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2020, TRB, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., 2007, pp. 40-44.

Kutay, M.E., and Aydilek, A.H. (2007) “Dynamic Effects on Moisture Transport in Asphalt Concrete”, ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering, Vol. 133, No. 7, July 2007, pp. 406-414.

Abbas, A.R., Kutay, M.E., Azari, H. and Rasmussen, R. (2007) “Three-Dimensional Surface Characterization of Portland Cement Concrete Pavements”, Computer Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering. Vol. 22, No 3, pp. 197-209.

Kutay, M.E., Aydilek, A.H. and Masad, E. (2006). “Laboratory validation of lattice Boltzmann method for modeling pore-scale flow in granular materials”, Computers and Geotechnics. Vol. 33, pp 381-395.

Kutay, M.E., Guler, M., and Aydilek, A.H. (2006) “Analysis of Factors Affecting Strain Distribution in Geosynthetics”, Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 132, No. 1, pp. 1-11

Guler M., Kutay, M. E., Aydilek A. H. and Dafla, H. (2005). “Evaluation of Strain Distribution in Geotextiles Using Image Analysis.” Geotechnical Special Publications, ASCE, No. 130-142, pp. 3941-3948.

Kutay, M.E. and Aydilek, A.H. (2005) “Filtration Performance of Two-Layer Geotextile Systems”, Geotechnical Testing Journal, ASTM, Vol. 28, No. 1.

Kutay, M.E. and Aydilek, A.H. (2004) “Retention Performance of Geotextile Containers Confining Geomaterials”, Geosynthetics International, IGS, Thomas Telford Publishers, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 100-113.

Aydilek, A.H. and Kutay, M.E. (2004) “Development of an Innovative Computer Controlled Water Deairing System for Hydraulic Testing of Geosynthetics”, Journal of Testing and Evaluation, ASTM, Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 161-166.

Kutay, M.E. (in progress, 2007) “A New Approach for Micromechanical Modeling of HMA: Lattice Boltzmann Method”, to be submitted to ASCE Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering.

 

Articles in Refereed Conference Proceedings

Kutay, M.E., Gibson, N.H. and Youtcheff, J. (2008)  “Use of pseudostress and pseudostrain concepts for characterization of asphalt fatigue tests”, Sixth RILEM International Conference on Cracking In Pavements, June  16-18, 2008, Accepted.

Kutay, M.E. and Aydilek, A. H. (2008) “Numerical Modeling of Suspensions in using the Lattice Boltzmann Method”, ASCE GeoCongress 2008, March 9-12, 2008, New Orleans, LA. (Accepted).

Adhikari, S., You, Z.,  and Kutay, M. E. (2008) “Prediction of Dynamic Modulus of Asphalt Concrete using Two-Dimensional and Three-Dimensional Discrete Element Modeling Approach”, ASCE GeoCongress 2008, March 9-12, 2008, New Orleans, LA. (Accepted).

Kutay, M.E., Arambula, E., Gibson, N., Youtcheff, J. and Petros, K. (2008) “Image and Artificial Neural Network - Based Microstructural Characterization Tool for Asphalt Pavements”, ASCE T&DI Pavements Conference, October 2008, Seattle, Washington. Abstract submitted

Kutay, M. E. (2007) "Spectral Analysis of Factors Affecting Roughness in Flexible Pavements", PIARC Paper Contest, 23rd World Road Congress. September 17-21, 2007, Paris, France. Paper selected as the USA entrant for the international contest.

Kutay, M.E. and Aydilek A.H. (2006) “Accuracy of the Two Common Semi-Analytical Equations in Predicting Asphalt Permeability”, GeoX 2006, 2nd International Workshop on X-Ray CT for Geomaterials. October 4-7, 2006 - Grenoble & Aussois, France.

Kutay, M.E. Aydilek, A.H. and Harman, T. (2006) “Dynamic Hydraulic Conductivity (Permeability) of Asphalt Pavements”, ASCE GeoCongress 2006. February 26-March 1, 2006, Atlanta, Georgia.

Aydilek A.H., Kutay, M.E., Sparacino, R., and Dafla, H. (2007) “Image Analysis for QC/QA of Geosynthetic Deformation during Wide Width Tensile Testing”, Proceedings of Geosynthetics 2007 Conference, January 16-19, 2007, Washington, D.C.

Kutay, M.E. Aydilek, A.H., and Hussein, S. (2005). “Dewatering Fly Ash Slurries Using Geotextile Containers”, Proceedings of Geo-Frontiers 2005, January 2005, Austin, Texas.

Kutay, M.E. and Aydilek A.H. (2005) “Hydraulic Compatibility of Geotextile Containers Confining Dredged Sediments”, Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, September 2005, Osaka, Japan.

Kutay, M.E. and Aydilek, A.H. (2003) “Hydraulic Compatibility of Geotextile Drains with Fly Ash in Pavement Structures”, Proceedings of the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, January 2003, Washington, D.C (CD-Rom), 15 p.

 

Reports

Kutay, M.E., Shenoy, A., and Qi, X. (2007)  “Full-Scale Accelerated Performance Testing for Superpave and Structural Validation”, Interim to Closeout Summary Report, Transportation Pooled Fund Study TPF-5(019).

Kutay, M.E. and Aydilek A. H. (2005) “Modeling Moisture Transport in Asphalt Pavements”, Environmental Geotechnics Report 05-1, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 294 p.

Kutay, M.E. and Aydilek A. H. (2003) “Hydraulic Compatibility of Geotextile Containers Confining Geomaterials”, Environmental Geotechnics Report 03-2, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 130 p.

Important Stuff

Married to Asiye and father of Salih Mirat and Zeynep .