PROFILE

Mr. Safazadeh is a Ph.D graduate from the University of Utah in the Transportation and Highway Engineering group with an emphasis on asphalt pavement. He has experienced research and teaching background with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. His expertise in the investigation of fatigue cracking via evaluation of fractures in viscoelastic medium. 

CIVIL ENGINEER IN TRAINING

• Internship at UDOT 

PUBLICATIONS & PAPERS

• Evaluating the Effects of Sasobit on Characterization and Workability of Asphalt Mixes Containing Reclaimed Asphalt Binder, Asphalt Pavements, Chapter 116, Pages 1241-1252, http://www.crcnetbase.com/doi/abs/10.1201/b17219-151.
• The Third Sandia Fracture Challenge: Predictions of the Ductile Failure under quasi-static loading, 2017, https://rdcu.be/bHMNj 
• Asib, A.S.M., Romero, P., & Safazadeh, F. (2019). An equivalence between methods of aging for determining the low-temperature performance of hot-mix asphalt concrete mixtures containing reclaimed asphalt pavement. Construction and Building Materials, 223, 198-209.
• Evaluation of Methods to Determine Intermediate Temperature Properties of Asphalt Mixtures by the Semi-Circular Bending Beam Test, 2018.

SOFTWARE SKILLS

• Auto Cad Land Desktop 2009.
• Civil 3D 2012.
• AASHTOWare.
• ABAQUS.
• Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Power Point)
• Eversers
• C++ and Python