Civil and Environmental Engineering
3553 Engineering Building
East Lansing, MI 48824

Phone: (517) 355-5147
Fax: (517) 355-0250
E-Mail: baladi@egr.msu.edu
Web: http://www.egr.msu.edu/~baladi/

• Pavement Design and Analysis I and II
• Civil Engineering Materials and Transportation Materials Engineering
• Engineering Management of Pavement Networks
• Soil Mechanics, Geotechnical Engineering and Advanced Geotechnical Design
• Rehabilitation of Highway and Airfield Pavements

• Reduction of Rutting and Fatigue Cracking in Asphalt Surfaced Roads, Michigan Department of Transportation.
• Long Term Pavement Performance—Data Analysis of the SHRP National Databank, Strategic Highway Research Program, National Research Council.
• Managing Pavements in the Highway System, 4-week course sponsored by the World Bank and the Federal Highway Administration.

Professor Baladi’s interests are in the areas of characterization of composite engineering materials used in transportation networks and building foundations. Specific research interests include emphasis on the fatigue and plastic properties of soils, unbounded materials, and asphalt pavements. Current research in these areas focuses on the behavior of soil subgrades and asphalt pavements under heavy vehicular loads. His research also includes the development of pavement performance prediction models and the back-calculation of engineering properties of layered systems. He is also quite active in technology transfer activities, managing and coordinating training courses for the Federal Highway Administration and the World Bank.

Purdue University: Ph.D., Pavements, Geotechnical and Materials

• Special Services Award, The American Society for Testing and Materials, 1990.

• Pavement Condition Index—Remaining Service Life, with E. Novak and H.K. Wen, ASTM STP 1121, American Society for Testing and Materials, Philadelphia, PA 1991.
• Fatigue Life and Permanent Deformation Characteristics of Asphalt Concrete Mixes, Transportation Research Record 1227, Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., 1989.
• Interpretation of Triaxial Test Results of Cohesionless Soils—A New Model, with T.H. Wu, ASTM STP 977, American Society for Testing and Materials, Philadelphia, PA, 1986.