Dr. Douglas D. Cortes

Doctorado en Ingeniería: Núcleo Académico Básico

New Mexico State University

Civil Engineering Department

* Geotécnia, 

* Pavimentos 

* Asfaltos 

* Ingeniería ambiental

Doctorado, Georgia Institute of Technology (2010)

Maestría, Georgia Institute of Technology (2008)

Ingeniería Civil, Georgia Institute of Technology (2006)

2013, Rafael Garcia, Thermoplastic Coated Particles as a Model to Understand the Behavior of Recycled Asphalt Pavements.

2012, Albert Mondragon, Engineered Soils for High Thermal Conductivity.

2010, Tomas Carbini,  Thermal Signatures of Advancing Phase Change Fronts in Sand.

2009, Stephen Munna, Characterization of Piedmont Formation Subgrade.

2007, Brad Cox, Flow Characteristics of Manufactured Aggregate Mortars.

2014, Allison Jenness, Heat Induced Contact Modification in Sands with Virgin Polyethylene, Recycled Polyethylene Terephthalate, and Recycled High Density Polyethylene.

2014, Mark Ormand, Soil Cement Mixture Design.

2013, Sarah Williamson, The Development of a Phenomenological Framework for the Prediction of Cement-Stabilized Soil Performance.

2015, Rascón-de-Lira, R., Cortes, D. D., and Pasten P., C., Asphalt binder aging and its implications in the management of reclaimed asphalt stockpiles, Construction and Building Materials. Under review.

2015, Papadopoulos , E., Cortes, D. D., and Santamarina, J. C., In situ assessment of the stress-dependent stiffness of unbound aggregate bases: application in inverted base pavements, International Journal of Pavement Engineering (ISI), in press.

2015, Nasirian, A. Cortes, D. D., and Dai, S., The physical nature of thermal conduction in dry granular media. Géotechnique Letters (ISI), v 5, n Jan-March, pp 1-5, doi.org/10.1680/geolett.14.00073.

2014, Williamson, S., and Cortes, D. D., Dimensional analysis of soil–cement mixture performance, Géotechnique Letters (ISI), v 4, n Jan-Mar, pp 33-38, doi:10.1680/geolett.13.00082.

2013, Cortes, D. D., Santamarina, J. C., The LaGrange case history: inverted pavement system characterisation and preliminary numerical analyses. International Journal of Pavement Engineering (ISI), v 14, n 5, pp 463-471, doi:10.1080/10298436.2012.742192.

2012, Cortes, D. D., Shin, H., Santamarina, J. C., Numerical Simulation of Inverted Pavement Systems. Journal of Transportation Engineering (ISI), v 138, n 12, pp 1507-1519, doi:10.1061/(ASCE)TE.1943-5436.0000472.

2012, Cortes, D. D., Santamarina, J. C., Jugo, A., Pavimentos Flexibles con Rigidez Invertida: Caracterización Experimental y Modelación Numérica. Revista Internacional de Desastres Naturales, Accidentes e Infraestructura Civil, v 12, n 1, pp 136-143.

2011, Fragaszy, R. J., Santamarina, J. C., Amekudzi, A. A., Assimaki, D., Bachus, R., Burns, S. E., Cha, M.-S., Cho, G.-C., Cortes, D. D., Sustainable Development and Energy Geotechnology - Potential Roles for Geotechnical Engineering. KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering (ISI), v 15, n 4, pp 611-621, doi: 10.1007/s12205-011-0102-7.

2009, Cortes, D. D., A. I. Martin, T. S. Yun, F. M. Francisca, J. C. Santamarina, and C. Ruppel, Thermal Conductivity of Hydrate-Bearing Sediments, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth (ISI), 114, B11103, doi:10.1029/2008JB006235.

2009, Waite, W.F., Santamarina, J.C., Cortes, D. D., Dugan, B., Espinoza, D.N., Germaine, J., Jang, J., Jung, J., Kneafsey, T., Shin, H.S., Soga, K., Winters, W., Yun T.S., Physical Properties of Hydrate-Bearing Sediments. Reviews of Geophysics (ISI), 47, RG4003, doi:10.1029/2008RG000279.

2008, Cortes, D. D., Kim, H. K., Palomino, A. M., and Santamarina, J. C., Rheological and Mechanical Properties of Mortars Prepared with Natural and Manufactured Sands. Cement and Concrete Research (ISI), v 38, n 10, pp 1142-1147, doi:10.1016/j.cemconres.2008.03.020.

2007, Kim, H. K., Cortes, D. D., and Santamarina, J. C., Flow Test: Particle-Level and Macroscale Analyses. ACI Materials Journal (ISI), v 104, n 3, pp 323-327.