Zhanping You (CEGE) was pictured in the Iron Mountain Daily News alongside a story about the completion of road projects in 2023 in Dickinson County, with some roads resurfaced using a mix of recycled tire rubber and asphalt.
The Dickinson County Road Commission partnered with Michigan Tech and the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE) for the C.R. 577 projects.
Projects used different methods, such as the use of recycled tire rubber in hot mix asphalt as well as engineered crumb rubber as a stabilizer or the use of recycled tire rubber and recycled glass as an aggregate.
You is a Distinguished Professor in Transportation Engineering. His research interests include
- Design, construction, and maintenance of pavements
- Micromechanics for road materials
- Discrete element modeling and finite element modeling techniques
- Construction materials: asphalt, aggregate, asphalt concrete
as well as alternative and recycled materials for civil engineering.