Benjamin Underwood
Professor
- bsunderw@ncsu.edu
- Fitts-Woolard Hall 3315A
Dr. Shane Underwood is a Professor in the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering. Prior to this appointment he was an Assistant Professor in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment within the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. He received his doctorate degree in Civil Engineering from North Carolina State University December of 2011. Dr. Underwood teaches courses on pavement engineering and infrastructure materials and has received multiple awards for teaching and service.
Education
Civil Engineering
North Carolina State University
Civil Engineering
North Carolina State University
Civil Engineering
North Carolina State University
Research Description
Dr. Underwood's research and education program focuses on materials and their interaction with society and the natural and built environments. This program pursues research, education, and service activities that evaluate, inform, and shape the science of these interactions, particularly how material decisions influence the use, function, and impact of civil infrastructure. As he and his students pursue these questions both broadly (by expanding the scope or significance of impact assessment) and deeply (by building the methods and models to better explain the physical behaviors that occur) new findings are integrated into his teaching. He and his students pursue this research in two ways. First, they use experimental mechanics and constitutive models to evaluate and understand the behavior of infrastructure materials, principally asphalt concrete. This knowledge is then exploited to better engineer the materials and/or structures to achieve sustainability and resiliency. Second, they use emerging perspectives and analytical tools to assess the role of social constructs in governing the impact of technological advances on infrastructure. Specific attention is given to pavements and with a focus on resilience due to a recognition that pavement engineering and indeed engineering of infrastructure in the built environment is facing great uncertainty.
Publications
- Assessment of Conventional and Engineered Surface Asphalt Mixtures Through Empirical and Fundamental Performance Tests
- Othman, O., Underwood, B. S., Habbouche, J., Boz, I., & Diefenderfer, S. D. (2024, March 29), TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH RECORD. https://doi.org/10.1177/03611981241234915
- Evaluation of Alternative Approaches to Restore the Rheology of Recycled Asphalt Binders
- Fried, A., Boz, I., Preciado, J., Gulzar, S., Underwood, B. S., Castorena, C., & Habbouche, J. (2024, March 29), TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH RECORD, Vol. 3. https://doi.org/10.1177/03611981241235179
- Modeling damage caused by combined thermal and traffic loading using viscoelastic continuum damage theory
- Zeng, Z., Kim, Y. R., Underwood, B. S., & Guddati, M. (2024), CONSTRUCTION AND BUILDING MATERIALS, 418. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2024.135425
- Performance Assessment of High Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement Asphalt Mixtures with Recycling Agents
- Preciado, J., Gulzar, S., Castorena, C., Underwood, B. S., Habbouche, J., & Boz, I. (2024, April 3), TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH RECORD, Vol. 4. https://doi.org/10.1177/03611981241236483
- An investigation into the nonlinear rheological behavior of modified asphalt binders using large amplitude oscillatory shear rheology
- Gulzar, S., Castorena, C., & Underwood, S. (2023), INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PAVEMENT ENGINEERING, 24(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/10298436.2023.2211211
- Asphalt mixture fatigue damage and failure predictions using the simplified viscoelastic continuum damage (S-VECD) model
- Zeng, Z., Kim, Y. R., Underwood, B. S., & Guddati, M. (2023), INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FATIGUE, 174. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijfatigue.2023.107736
- Balanced Mixture Design Framework for Asphalt Mixtures Based on Index- and Performance-Volumetrics Relationships
- Rocha, M. L., Aragao, F. T. S., Nascimento, L. A. H., & Underwood, B. S. (2023, April 6), TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH RECORD. https://doi.org/10.1177/03611981231161063
- Benchmarking Recycled Binder Blends Using Statistical Analysis: A Case Study of Virginia and North Carolina
- Preciado, J., Gulzar, S., Fried, A., Castorena, C., Underwood, B. S., Habbouche, J., & Boz, I. (2023, July 3), TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH RECORD, Vol. 7. https://doi.org/10.1177/03611981231178812
- Case Studies of Asphalt Pavement Quality Assurance Specifications, Performance-Related Specifications, and Performance-Based Specifications
- Saleh, N. F., DeCarlo, K., Underwood, B. S., Pine, W. J., Huber, G., Tran, N., … Kim, Y. R. (2023, May 4), TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH RECORD, Vol. 5. https://doi.org/10.1177/03611981231166685
- Criterion to Select the Maximum Aggregate Size of Fine-Aggregate Asphalt Matrices
- Souza, T. D., Enriquez-Leon, A. J., Rocha, M. L., Osmari, P. H., Sacramento Aragao, F. T., Brabo Pereira, A. M., & Underwood, B. S. (2023, March 31), TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH RECORD. https://doi.org/10.1177/03611981231159891