About

Amit Bhasin is a Professor and Director of the Center for Transportation Research at the Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on infrastructure materials, with an emphasis on asphalt materials and pavement infrastructure. His activities are at the intersection of materials science and mechanics, aiming to develop sustainable materials and design tools for the construction and preservation of pavements. Bhasin's expertise includes material science and mechanistic modeling of distresses in pavement materials, self-healing properties of bituminous materials, structure-property relationships in composite materials, and surface properties and interfacial adhesion of materials.

Research topics

• Composite material
• Materials science
• Computer Science
• Machine Learning
• Artificial Intelligence
• Engineering
• Chemical engineering
• Chemistry
• Organic chemistry

Selected publications

• Displacement controlled pullout test of geotextile in granular soil

  2026-02-12

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  Consideration has been given to evaluate frictional bond characteristics of an Indian made non woven needle punched geotextile by performing a series of pullout tests in a newly developed test setup. More than sixty tests have been carried out in order to evaluate the effect of aspect ratio of the geotextile, surcharge loading, stepped increment in normal loading, flexible footing base, etc. Effectiveness of passive anchorage or prestressing of reinforcement layer(s) at the ends have been investigated by the new experimental setup.

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• Evaluating the long-term cracking and oxidation resistance of asphalt binder incorporating bio-based additives

  Construction and Building Materials · 2026-01-26 · 2 citations

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• Displacement controlled pull-out test of geotextile in granular soil

  2026-02-18

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  Consideration has been given to evaluate frictional bond characteristics of an Indian made non woven needle punched geotextile by performing a series of pull-out tests in a newly developed test setup. More than sixty tests have been carried out in order to evaluate the effect of aspect ratio of the geotextile, surcharge loading, stepped increment in normal loading, flexible footing base, etc. Effectiveness of passive anchorage or prestressing of reinforcement layer(s) at the ends have been investigated by the new experimental setup.

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• The role of promising antioxidants in the chemomechanics of asphalt binders

  Materials and Structures · 2025-11-27

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• Historical insights on asphalt aging, mechanisms, and anti-aging technologies with evaluation of a potential antioxidant as the way forward

  Construction and Building Materials · 2025-08-21 · 5 citations

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• Evaluation of antioxidants to mitigate aging in wood-based bio-binders

  Road Materials and Pavement Design · 2025-04-03 · 1 citations

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• Bitumen optical microscopy as a quality assurance tool through deployment of trained Siamese neural network model

  Road Materials and Pavement Design · 2025-04-05

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• Investigation of the impact of mineral adsorption on asphalt binder aging through rheological and chemical analyses

  International Journal of Pavement Engineering · 2025-03-19 · 1 citations

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• A new paradigm in rutting evaluation: The concept of rutting tolerance temperature (RuTT) for asphalt mixtures

  Construction and Building Materials · 2025-12-01

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• Identification, classification and selection of warm mix additives based on workability, chemical and performance characteristics

  International Journal of Pavement Engineering · 2025-04-23

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Recent grants

• CAREER: Investigating Molecular, Physical and Mechanical Properties that Influence Macroscopic Self-Healing in Asphalt Materials

  NSF · $417k · 2011–2017

Frequent coauthors

• Dallas N. Little

  Texas A&M University

  121 shared

• Eyad Masad

  Qatar Foundation

  48 shared

• Ramez Hajj

  31 shared

• Kamilla Vasconcelos

  31 shared

• Christine Lefrou

  Université Savoie Mont Blanc

  25 shared

• Renaud Cornut

  Université Paris-Saclay

  25 shared

• Angelo Filonzi

  The University of Texas at Austin

  21 shared

• Robert L. Lytton

  Texas A&M University

  20 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Civil Engineering

  Texas A&M University College Station

  2006

• M.E., Civil Engineering

  Texas A&M University

  2003

• B.Tech., Civil Engineering

  Indian Institute of Technology BHU

  1997

Awards & honors

• Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize – American…
• President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Award (2016)
• New Faculty Award – American Road and Transportation Builder…
• Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award (2013)
• CAREER Award – National Science Foundation (2011)