Ashley Buss
Email: abuss@iastate.edu
Title(s):
Affiliate Assistant Professor
Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
Office
490 Town Engr
813 Bissell Rd
Ames, IA 50011-1066
Information
Education
- Ph.D. Civil Engineering, Iowa State University, 2014
- M.S. Civil Engineering, Iowa State University, 2010
- B.S. Civil Engineering, Iowa State University, 2008
Interest Areas
- Sustainable pavement practices
- Warm-mix asphalt additives
- Recycled asphalt pavement and shingles
- Bio-based additives
- Adhesives
- Asphalt emulsion materials
- Pavement preservation
- Chip seals and micro-surfacing
- Life-cycle cost analysis
Publications
- Guirguis, M., Buss. “Chip Seal Design Framework with Life Cycle Costs Analysis for Local Agencies.” Road Materials and Pavement Design (In press; article ID: TRMP 1633389.)
- Guirguis, M., Buss. “Emulsion and hot asphalt chip seal evaluation and field correlation using sweep test.” International Journal of Pavement Research and Technology. Vol. 12 241-248. DOI: 10.1007/s42947-019-0030-3 (2019).
- Guirguis, M. Buss, “Adopting Chip Sealing Performance-Based Approaches to Determine Rational Design Quantities.” ASTM Journal of Testing and Evaluation. Vol. 48. Issue 2. DOI: 10.1520/JTE20180296. March 2020.
- Pinto, I., Buss. Layer coefficients of cold in-place recycled layers from performance data. International Journal of Pavement Engineering. pp.1-7. 2018. doi.org/10.1080/10298436.2018.1473863
- Buss, A., Guirguis, D. Gransberg. Chip seal aggregate evaluation and successful roads preservation. Journal of Construction and Building Materials. Volume 180, pp. 396-404. August 2018. doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2018.05.255.
- Gransberg, D. Ilker Karaca, Buss. Life Cycle Cost Adjustment Factors In Alternate Design/Alternative Bid Pavement Bids: Added Value or Added Controversy? Accepted for Publication in the Transportation Research Record and for presentation at the 97th Annual TRB Meeting 2018.
- Buss, A., Elkashef, W.R. Stephenson. Extracting more from Dynamic Modulus Data using Split-Plot Repeated Measures Analysis. ASTM Journal of Testing and Evaluation. Vol. 46, No. 1, 2018, pp. 351-364, https://doi.org/10.1520/JTE20170052. ISSN 0090-3973
- Podolsky, J. H., Buss, A., Williams, R. C., & Cochran, E. (2017). Mechanistic empirical performance of warm-mix asphalt with select bio-derived additives in the Midwestern United States using AASHTOWare pavement ME design. Road Materials and Pavement Design, 18(4), 800-816.
- Podolsky, J. H., Buss, A., Williams, R. C., & Cochran, E. W. (2017). Effect of bio-derived/chemical additives on warm mix asphalt compaction and mix performance at low temperature. Cold Regions Science and Technology, 136, 52-61.
- Guirguis, M., & Buss, A. (2017). Performance Evaluation of Emulsion and Hot Asphalt Cement Chip Seal Pavements. Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, 29(11), 04017202.
- Podolsky, J. H., Buss, A., Williams, R. C., Hernández, N., & Cochran, E. W. (2017). Rejuvenation of vacuum tower bottoms through bio-derived materials for use in paving flexible roadways. Journal of Cleaner Production, 143, 1081-1093.
- Buss, A., Mercado, M., and Schram, S. “Long-Term Evaluation of Cold-in-Place Recycling and Factors Influencing Performance.” ASCE J. Perform. Constr. Facil., November 2016. 10.1061/(ASCE)CF.1943-5509.0000985, 04016111.
- Podolsky, J.; Buss, A.; Williams, R.C.; Hernandez, N.; and Cochran, E.W., “Rejuvenation of vacuum tower bottoms through bio-derived materials for use in paving flexible roadways.” Journal of Cleaner Production. December 8, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.12.011
- Podolsky, J., Buss, R.C. Williams, N. Hernandez, E. Cochran. “Effects of Aging on Rejuvenated Vacuum Tower Bottom Rheology through the use of Black Diagrams and Master Curves.” Fuel, December 1, 2016. DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2016.07.094
- Podolsky, J.H., Buss, R.C. Williams and E. Cochran, “Mechanistic empirical performance of warm-mix asphalt with select bio-derived additives in the Midwestern United States using AASHTOWare pavement ME design,” Road Materials and Pavement Design, June 13, 2016. ISSN: 1468-0629. DOI: 10.1080/14680629.2016.1194880
- Podolsky, J., Buss, R. C. Williams, E. Cochran. The Rutting and Stripping Resistance of Warm and Hot Mix Asphalt using Bio-additives. Construction and Building Materials, Volume 112, pp 128-139. DOI:10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2016.02.166
- Buss, A., R.C. Williams, and S. Schram, “Evaluation of Moisture Susceptibility Tests for Warm Mix Asphalt” Construction and Building Materials, Volume 102, pp. 358-366. January 15, 2016. DOI:10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2015.11.010
- Buss, A., Podolsky, R.C. Williams, and E. Cochran, “Investigation of Isosorbide Distillation Bottoms as a Bio-Based Warm-Mix Additive” Submitted to: ASCE Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, September 21, 2015. DOI:10.1061/(ASCE)MT.1943-5533.0001445 , 04015153
- Chen, C., R.C. Williams, M.G. Marasinghe, J.C. Ashlock, S. Schram, and Buss, “Assessment of Composite Pavement Performance by Survival Analysis”, ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering, March 12, 2015. DOI: 0.1061/(ASCE)TE.1943-5436.0000784, 04015018
- Buss, A., C. Williams, and S. Schram, “The influence of warm mix asphalt on binders in mixes that contain recycled asphalt materials”, Construction and Building Materials, Volume 77, pp. 50-58, 15 February 2015. doi:10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2014.12.023.
- Podolsky, J., Buss, R.C. Williams and E. Cochran, “Comparative Performance of Bio-Derived/Chemical Additives in Warm Mix Asphalt at Low Temperature”, Materials and Structures, December 2014. DOI 10.1617/s11527-014-0520-3.
- Buss, A., A. Cascione, and R. C. Williams, “Evaluation of Warm Mix Asphalt Containing Recycled Asphalt Shingles”, Construction and Building Materials, Volume 61, pp.1-9, June 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2014.02.066.
- Schram, S., R. C. Williams, and Buss, “Reporting Results from the Hamburg Wheel Tracking Device”, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2446, Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, D.C., 2014, pp. 89-98. DOI:10.3141/2446-10
- Yu, Jianhua; R.C. Williams; Buss, “Laboratory Evaluation of Warm Mix Asphalt Influence on Theoretical Maximum Specific Gravity.” ASTM Journal of Testing and Evaluation, Technical Notes DOI: 10.1520/JTE 103928, March 2012.
- Ceylan, H.; K. Gopalakrishnan, S. Kim, P.C. Taylor, M. Prokudin, and Buss (2013) Highway Infrastructure Health Monitoring Using Micro-Electromechanical Sensors and Systems (MEMS), Journal of Civil Engineering and Management, 19(sup1), pp. S188-S201.