Dr Alex Apeagyei
Senior Lecturer
Architecture, Computing & Engineering
Dr Alex Apeagyei has several years of combined industrial, academic and research experience in Highway and Transportation Engineering, across three continents - Africa, North America and Europe.
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EB1.100
4-6 University Way
London
E16 2RD - a.apeagyei@uel.ac.uk +44208232361
Prior to joining UEL as a Senior Lecturer, he served as Course Director for the BSc Civil Engineering programme at Kingston University. He previously worked as a Research Fellow at the Nottingham Transportation Engineering Centre, University of Nottingham. He also worked as Research Scientist at the Virginia Transportation Research Council and as a Research Associate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
His primary research goals are directed at applying experimental and computational techniques to better understand the influence that climatic factors, especially those related to moisture and temperature, have on the sustainability and durability of highway pavement materials. In the past, his research had focused on advanced materials characterization of road construction materials (including soils, aggregates, and portland cement concrete), low temperature cracking of asphalt mixtures, rutting in asphalt mixtures, asphalt pavement recycling, pavement rehabilitation and non-destructive testing. With excessive precipitation predicted to be one of the main impacts of climate change in UK, his future research plans are aimed at forging interdisciplinary collaborations with colleagues in Chemistry, Geology and Environment to solve one of the most intractable problems in highway engineering – moisture damage in asphalt.
His ultimate aim is to better understand the effects of environmental change on asphalt pavement sustainability and the development of adaptation systems to address the issue. Alex is a registered Professional Engineer in the USA and an active member various international scientific groups including Institute of Highway Engineers, RILEM, ASTM International, American Society of Civil Engineers, Association of Asphalt Paving Technologist, European Asphalt Technology Association and Transportation Research Board. Alex has published some of his work in several peer-reviewed journals and presented others at prestigious national and international conferences and meetings in Europe and North America. He holds a patent on techniques for controlling age-hardening in asphalt mixtures (US Patent # 9,605,104). Alex is the author of more than 60 peer-reviewed publications.
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Asphalt material characterization, Moisture damage evaluation, Sustainable construction materials, Climate resilience, Pavement durability TEACHING AREA Construction Materials, Engineering Materials, Highway Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Project Management
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Traffic & Highway Engineering