Mihai Marasteanu
Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering
Office: 164 Civil Engineering
Phone: 612-625-5558
E-mail: maras002@umn.edu
Home page
Marasteanu's Civil Engineering page
Research projects
Marasteanu's CTS research projects
Mihai Marasteanu's major research interests involve applications
of fundamental heories
(viscoelasticity, rheology, plasticity, fracture mechanics, continuum
damage mechanics, micromechanics) to bituminous materials characterization,
modeling and experimental testing. His current research activities
include the characterization of low-temperature behavior of asphalt
binders and mixtures and the characterization of asphalt emulsions
in relationship to their field performance.
Marasteanu received his engineering diploma from the Civil Engineering Institute of Bucharest, Romania, and went on to earn M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from Pennsylvania State University.