Name, Academic Rank

Jacob Uzan, Professor 

Office

Rabin Bldg., Rm. 711

Tel., Fax., E-mail

Tel: +972-4-8293325   Fax: +972-4-8225716   E-mail: cvrjaco@tx.technion.ac.il 

Teaching Activities

Flexible and Rigid Pavement Design and Evaluation, Materials

Research Interest 

Characterization of Pavement Materials
Pavement Design and Evaluation

Year awarded doctorate

1973

Institution

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Field of doctorate

Transportation Engineering

Thesis title

Cracking of pavements due to shrinkage of clay subgrade

Books published

 

Recent journal publications

1.     J. Uzan, “Characterization of asphalt concrete materials for permanent deformation”, Int. J. of Pavement Engineering, Vol. 4 (2), June 2003, pp. 77-86.

 

2.     J. Uzan, “Permanent deformation in flexible pavements”, ASCE, Journal of Transportation Engineering, Vol.130, Issue 1, Jan-Feb. 2004, pp. 6–13.

 

3.      E. Levenberg and J. Uzan, "Quantifying the Confidence Levels of Deformation Measurements in Asphalt Concrete", ASTM, Journal of Testing and Evaluation, Vol. 32 No. 5, 2004, pp. 358-365.

 

4.     J. Uzan, "Linear and Nonlinear backcalculation for site 1 in Hanover, NH", Transportation Research Board, Transportation Research  Record  1869, 2004, pp.67-72.

 

5.     D. Andrei, , W.M. Witczak, C.M. Schwartz and J. Uzan, "Harmonized Resilient Modulus Test Method for Unbound Pavement Materials", Transportation Research Board, Transportation Research  Record 1874, 2004, pp.29-37

 

6.     E. Levenberg and J. Uzan, "Triaxial small-strain viscoelastic-viscoplastic modeling of asphalt aggregate mixes", Mechanics of Time Dependent materials, Vol. 8, 2004, pp. 365-384.

 

7.     J. Uzan, " A Viscoelastic – Viscoplastic Model with Damage for Asphalt Concrete", ASCE, Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, Vol. 17, No. 5, 2005, pp. 528-534.

 

8.     J. Uzan, F. Zhou and R.L. Lytton, " Fracture energy: What is it in a Visco-Elastic Visco-Plastic Material?", Electronic Journal of the Association of Asphalt Pavement Technologists, Vol. 74E (CD), ISSN # 1553-5576, March 2005.

 

Presentations

1.Pavement_Performance_cab

2. setup app

3. Thermal files

4. PRS Report

 Present positions at Technion
&present public  positions