Youngsoo Kim

Bio

Dr. Y. Richard Kim received his Bachelor’s degree from Seoul National University, Korea, and Master’s and PhD degrees from Texas A&M University, USA. Currently Dr. Kim is the Jimmy D. Clark Distinguished University Professor and Alumni Association Distinguished Graduate Professor in the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering at North Carolina State University and Changjiang Scholar in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Chang’an University in China. Changjiang Scholar is the highest academic award issued to an individual in higher education by the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China. He has over thirty years of experience in both the laboratory and field aspects of the performance evaluation of asphalt materials and pavements.

Professor Kim is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Korean Academy of Science and Technology. He is also a board member of International Society for Asphalt Pavements (ISAP) and was the chair of the 2014 ISAP Conference on Asphalt Pavements. Dr. Kim has published over 300 papers in national and international technical journals and proceedings. He is the editor of the ASCE book entitled Modeling of Asphalt Concrete and the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering and International Journal of Highway Engineering. He has spoken at numerous national and international settings, including over 120 invited/keynote speeches.

Professor Kim teaches CE 332 Materials of Construction, CE 595A Bituminous Materials, CE 594C Nondestructive Evaluation of Civil Infrastructure, CE 755 Highway Pavement Design, CE 757 Pavement Management Systems, and CE 759 Inelastic Behavior of Civil Infrastructure. Professor Kim has advised 55 PhD students and 43 Masters students during his 30-year tenure at NC State University. His teaching and mentoring efforts were recognized by the Alumni Association Distinguished Graduate Professorship in 2012. Professor Kim has won numerous awards, including the Alexander Quarles Holladay Medal for Excellence (2019). The Holladay Medal is the highest award at NC State University to recognize members of the faculty whose careers have demonstrated outstanding achievement and sustained impact in research, teaching or extension and engagement. In 2016, Professor Kim became one of the eleven inaugural members of the Research Leadership Academy at NC State University. The Research Leadership Academy is the faculty-driven epicenter of research leadership and faculty mentoring enhancing NCSU’s research culture and is composed of the University’s most outstanding researchers and mentors from diverse fields.

Area(s) of Expertise

Dr. Kim's research interests are in pavement design and rehabilitation, bituminous materials, pavement preservation, nondestructive evaluation of pavements, and performance modeling.

Publications

• A state-of-the-art review of asphalt mixture fracture models to address pavement reflective cracking , Construction and Building Materials (2024)
• Balanced Mix Design Plus for Mixtures that Contain Recycled Asphalt Pavement , TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH RECORD (2024)
• Evaluating the Reflective Crack Resistance of Geosynthetic-Reinforced Asphalt Concrete Through Notched Beam Fatigue Testing , PROCEEDINGS OF THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MAINTENANCE AND REHABILITATION OF PAVEMENTS, MAIREPAV-10, VOL 2 (2024)
• Evaluation of Paris law-based approach on asphalt mixture reflective cracking performance modeling , Engineering Fracture Mechanics (2024)
• Mechanical Properties and Performance of Mixtures Containing a High Level of Recycled Materials That Are Designed Using Alternative Approaches , Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board (2024)
• Mechanical Properties and Performance of Mixtures with the Same Volumetric Classification , Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board (2024)
• Modeling damage caused by combined thermal and traffic loading using viscoelastic continuum damage theory , Construction and Building Materials (2024)
• Reflective Cracking Performance Evaluations of Highly Polymer-Modified Asphalt Mixture , Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part B: Pavements (2024)
• Asphalt mixture fatigue damage and failure predictions using the simplified viscoelastic continuum damage (S-VECD) model , International Journal of Fatigue (2023)
• Case Studies of Asphalt Pavement Quality Assurance Specifications, Performance-Related Specifications, and Performance-Based Specifications , Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board (2023)

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