Dr. Eyad Masad

PROFESSOR AND ASSISTANT DEAN

Office Number: 202C
Office Phone: +974 423-0268
Fax Number: 4230066
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PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS
Dr. Masad's general interest area is the characterization and modeling of infrastructure materials, transport in porous media, granular mechanics, design and analysis of pavements, and microstructure analysis techniques.

EDUCATION

• Doctor of Philosophy, Washington State University - 1998
• Master of Science, Washington State University - 1995
• Bachelor of Science, University of Jordan -1993

EXPERIENCE

• Professor, Texas A&M University (9/09 - present)
• Associate Professor, Texas A&M University (9/05 - 8/09)
• Visiting Professor, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands (7/1/08-8/1/08)
• Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University (1/03 - 8/05)
• Associate Research Engineer, Texas Transportation Institute, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX (11/05 - present)
• Assistant Research Scientist, Texas Transportation Institute, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX (1/03 - 8/05)
• Assistant Professor, Washington State University, Pullman, WA (8/98 - 12/02)
• Highway Research Engineer, Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center, Federal Highway Administration, McLean, VA (8/97 - 8/98)
• Instructor, Washington State University, Pullman, WA (9/96 - 6/97)
• Research Assistant, Washington State University, Pullman, WA (1/95 - 8/96)
• Teaching Assistant, Washington State University, Pullman, WA (1/94 - 12/94)
• Design Engineer, Engineering Consortium Consulting Engineers, Amman, Jordan (1/93 - 12/93)

RECENT PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Bhasin, A., Castelo Branco, V., Masad, E., and Little, D. (2009).  "Quantitative Comparison of Energy Methods to Characterize fatigue in Asphalt Materials," Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 83-92.

Koneru, S., Masad, E., and Rajagopal, K. (2008).  "Modeling of Asphalt Mix Compaction Using a Thermomechanical Material Model," Mechanics of Materials, Vol. 40, No. 10, pp. 846-864.

Masad, E., Huang, C. W., Airey, G., and Muliana, A. (2008).  "Nonlinear Viscoelastic Analysis of Unaged and Aged Asphalt Binders," Construction and Building Materials, Vol. 22, No. 11, pp. 2170-2179.

Huang, C. W., Masad, E., Muliana, A., and Bahia, H. (2007).  "Nonlinearly Viscoelastic Analysis of Asphalt Mixes Subjected to Shear Loading," Mechanics of Time Dependent Materials, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp.  91-110. 

Masad, E., Al-Omari, A., and Chen, H. C. (2007).  "Computations of Permeability Tensor Coefficients and Anisotropy of Hot Mix Asphalt Based on Microstructure Simulation of Fluid Flow," Computational Materials Science, Vol. 40, No. 4, pp. 449 - 459.