Education

• Ph.D., Civil Engineering, 2004, Washington State University
• M.S., Civil Engineering, 2001, Washington State University
• B.S., Civil Engineering, 1999, University of Jordan

Professional Experience

• 08/05 – Present, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Akron, Akron, OH
• 10/04 – 08/05, Highway Research Engineer, Soil and Land Use Technology, Inc., Beltsville, MD
• 01/03 – 07/04, Highway Research Fellow, Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center, Federal Highway Administration, McLean, VA
• 09/01 – 12/02, Research Assistant, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
• 08/99 – 08/01, Teaching Assistant, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
• 04/99 – 07/99, Site Engineer and Quality Control Manager, TAC Group, Amman, Jordan
• 06/98 – 07/98, Research Trainee, Ground Engineering and Materials Science Department, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain

Courses Taught

• Statics (4300:201)
• Soil Mechanics (4300:313)
• Geotechnical Engineering (4300:314)
• Highway Materials (4300:468/568)
• Pavement Engineering (4300:465)
• Advanced Characterization of Highway Materials (4300:694)
• Advanced Pavement Design and Analysis (4300:694)

Professional Affiliations

• American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
• Geo-Institute (GI)
• Transportation Research Board (TRB)
• Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists (AAPT)
• International Society of Asphalt Pavements (ISAP)
• Transportation and Development Institute (T&DI)

Awards

• Eisenhower Graduate Research Fellowship in Transportation Engineering, Federal Highway Administration, 2004
• Eisenhower Graduate Research Fellowship in Transportation Engineering, Federal Highway Administration, 2003
• National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA) research and education scholarship for the year 2001/2002
• Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for the Year 2000, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Washington State University

Research Interests

• Modeling of geomaterials
• Pavement material characterization
• Pavement surface characterization
• Pavement response and performance modeling

Book Publications

• Pavements and Materials: Modeling, Testing and Performance, Geotechnical Special Publication No. 184 (ISBN 978-0-7844-1008-0), Geo-Institute, American Society of Civil Engineers, Editors: You, Z., Abbas, A., and Wang, L. (2009), 163 pages.
• Pavements and Materials: Characterization, Modeling and Simulation, Geotechnical Special Publication No. 182 (ISBN10 # 0784409862 and ISBN13 # 9780784409862), Geo-Institute, American Society of Civil Engineers, Editors: You, Z., Abbas, A., and Wang, L. (2008), 178 pages.

Selected Publications

• Abbas, A. (2008), “Simulating the Deformation Behavior of Hot Mix Asphalt as Tested in the Indirect Tension Test,” ASCE Geotechnical Special Publication No. 182, Geo-Institute, Reston, VA, pp. 16-23.
• Abbas, A., Kutay, M.E., Azari, H., and Rasmussen, R. (2007), “Three-Dimensional Surface Texture Characterization of Portland Cement Concrete Pavements,” Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, Vol. 22, pp. 197-209.
• Abbas, A., Masad, E., Papagiannakis, T., and Harman, T. (2007), “Micromechanical Modeling of the Viscoelastic Behavior of Asphalt Mixtures Using the Discrete Element Method,” International Journal of Geomechanics, ASCE, Vol. 7, Issue 2, pp. 131-139.
• Abbas, A.R., Papagiannakis, A.T., and Masad, E.A. (2005), “Micromechanical Simulation of Asphaltic Materials Using the Discrete Element Method,” ASCE Geotechnical Special Publication No. 146, Geo-Institute, Reston, VA.
• Abbas, A., Masad, E., Papagiannakis, T., and Shenoy, A. (2005), “Modeling Asphalt Mastic Stiffness Using Discrete Element Analysis and Micromechanics-Based Models,” International Journal of Pavement Engineering, Vol. 16, pp. 137-144.
• Abbas, A., Papagiannakis, A.T., and Masad, E. (2004), “Linear and Non-Linear Viscoelastic Analysis of the Microstructure of Asphalt Concretes,” Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 16, pp. 133-139.
• Abbas, A.R., Papagiannakis, A.T., and Masad, E.A. (2003), “Microstructural Analysis of the Constitutive Behavior of Asphalt Concretes,” ASCE Geotechnical Special Publication No. 123, Geo-Institute, Reston VA, pp. 102-110.
• Saadeh, S., Masad, E., Stuart, K., Abbas, A., Papagiannakis, T., and Al-Khateeb, G. (2003), “Comparative Analysis of Axial and Shear Moduli of Asphalt Mixes,” Journal of the Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists, Vol. 72, pp. 122-153.
• Papagiannakis, A.T., Abbas, A.R., and Masad, E.A. (2002), “Micromechanical Analysis of Viscoelastic Properties of Asphalt Concretes,” Journal of the Transportation Research Board, Record No. 1789, pp. 113-120.
• Abbas, A., Choi, B.C., Masad, E., and Papagiannakis, T. (2002), “The Influence of Laboratory Aging Method on the Rheological Properties of Asphalt Binders,” Journal of Testing and Evaluation, American Society of Testing and Materials, Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 171-176.