Ashley Buss

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

  1. 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.)
  2. 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).
  3. 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.
  4. 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
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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
  24. 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.
  25. 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.

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