Roger W. Meier, Ph.D.

Coordinator of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor of Civil Engineering

rwmeier@memphis.edu

Specialty Areas:

Pavement Engineering
Geotechnical Engineering
Civil Engineering Materials

Office Information

The University of Memphis
Department of Civil Engineering
112C Engineering Science Building
Memphis, TN 38152-3180
Phone: 901-678-3284
Fax: 901-678-3026
E-mail: rwmeier@memphis.edu

Teaching Schedule - Fall 2007

CIVL 4111 - Engineering Economics - 8:00-8:55 MWF
CIVL 7132 - Advanced Soil Mechanics - 11:20-12:45 TR

Recent Research

"Incorporation of Pavement Temperature in Flexible Pavement Design," Tennessee DOT
"LTPP Analysis: Daily and Seasonal Variations in Insitu Material Properties," NCHRP
"Incorporating GGBFS in Steam-Cured Concrete," CPI Concrete Products, Inc.

Research Interests

Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design
Environmental Effects on Pavements
Geophysical Site Characterization
Application of Soft Computing Methods to Civil Engineering Problems

Professional Service

Secretary, ACI Mid-America Chapter
Treasurer and Past President, ASCE West Tennessee Branch
Editorial Board Member, ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Pavement Engineering
Webmaster and Steering Committee Member, ASCE Geo-Institute Pavements Committee
Member, ASCE Transportation & Development Institute Pavements Committee

Member, ASTM Committee D04 on Road and Paving Materials

Education

Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1995
M.S. in Civil Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1983.
B.S. in Civil Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1979.

Began at The University of Memphis in August 1995

Professional Experience

1983–1995 • Research Civil Engineer • U.S. Army Engineer Research & Development Center • Vicksburg, MS.

Developed and prosecuted applied research programs involving the development of analytical and numerical models and simulations in such diverse areas as the interpretation of geophysical test data, prediction of off-road vehicle mobility, analysis of blast-induced loading on buried structures, and simulation of combat engineering operations.

Selected Publications and Presentations

Meier, R. W. and Rix, G. J., "An Initial Study of Surface Wave Inversion Using Artificial Neural Networks," Geotechnical Testing Journal, Vol. 16, No. 4, December 1993.

Rix, G. J. and Meier, R. W., "Use of Artificial Neural Networks for Automated Nondestructive Test Interpretation," Proceedings, Conference on the Repair and Rehabilitation of the Infrastructure in the Americas, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, May 1994.

Meier, R. W. and Horner, D. A. (Eds.), "Proceedings, First North American Workshop on Modeling the Mechanics of Off-Road Mobility," Miscellaneous Paper GL-94-30, U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, MS, August 1994.

Baylot, E. A., Meier, R. W. and Hadala, P. F., "Engineer Model Improvement Program - Report 11: Parametric Studies of Alternative Methods of Simulating Combat Engineer Activity and of Engineer Battlefield Preparation Using the Engineer Functional Area Model," Technical Report GL-90-8, U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, MS, September 1994.

Meier, R. W. and Rix, G. J., "Backcalculation of Flexible Pavement Moduli Using Artificial Neural Networks," Transportation Research Record 1448, TRB, National Research Council, Washington, D. C., 1994.

Meier, R. W. and Rix, G. J., "Backcalculation of Flexible Pavement Moduli from Dynamic Deflection Basins Using Artificial Neural Networks," Transportation Research Record 1473, TRB, National Research Council, Washington, D. C., 1995.

Tutumluer, E. and Meier, R. W., "An Attempt at Resilient Modulus Modeling Using Artificial Neural Networks," Transportation Research Record No. 1540, TRB, National Research Council, Washington, D. C., 1996, pp. 1-6.

Meier, R. W. and Rix, G. J. "Identification of Defective Cast-in-Place Foundations from Nondestructive Integrity Tests Using Artificial Neural Networks," Presented at the 75th Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D. C., January 1996.

Meier, R. W., Alexander, D. R. and Freeman, R. "Using Artificial Neural Networks as a Forward Approach to Backcalculation," Transportation Research Record No. 1570, TRB, National Research Council, Washington, D. C., 1997, pp. 126-133.

Meier, R. W. and Rix, G. J. "Backcalculation of Flexible Pavement Moduli from Falling Weight Deflectometer Data using Artificial Neural Networks," in Artificial Neural Networks for Civil Engineers: Advanced Features and Applications, ASCE, 1998.

Meier, R. W. and Tutumluer, E. “Uses of Artificial Neural Networks in the Mechanistic Empirical Design of Flexible Pavements,” in Artificial Intelligence and Mathematical Methods in Pavement and Geomechanical Systems, A. A. Balkema, Rotterdam, 1998.

Meier, R. W. and Barkdoll, B. D. “Sampling Design for Network Model Calibration Using Genetic Algorithms,” Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, ASCE, July, 2000.

Marshall, P. C., Meier, R. W., and Welch, M., “Seasonal Temperature Effects On Flexible Pavements In Tennessee,” Transportation Research Record No. 1764, TRB, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., 2001, pp. 89-96.

Zou, G., Meier, R.W. and Drumm, E.C. (2002) “The Effect of Temperature Averaging on Predicted Pavement Life,” Transportation Research Record, No. 1809, TRB, Washington D.C., pp. 119-125.

Drumm, E. C. and Meier, R.W. (2003) “LTPP Data Analysis: Daily and Seasonal Variations in Insitu Material Properties, Project 20-50(7&12)” Final Report to National Cooperative Highway Research Program, web document http://trb.org/publications/nchrp/nchrp_w60.pdf.

Zou, G., Drumm, E. C., and Meier, R. W. (2007) “Environmental Effects on Flexible Pavements: Predicted Service Life,” Journal of Transportation Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 133, No. 1, January 1, 2007, pp. 1-10.