Lin Cong，Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor of the School of Transportation Engineering (Tongji University), the deputy director of the Collaborative Innovation Center of Road Durability and Safety (Ministry of Transport, China). He serves as a member of Pavement Accelerated Testing (APT) Committee of Transportation Research Board (TRB) and is on the editorial board of Journal of Building Materials. Additionally, he once was the Executive Deputy Director of Infrastructure Office at Tongji University.
Prof. Cong’s research primarily focuses on durability and performance enhancement of pavement structures, AI-based intelligent pavement perception, pavement service life maintenance, and full-scale APT pavement experiments. He has conducted extensive studies on AI-based pavement damage identification, Falling Weight Deflectometer (FWD) on pavement structure evaluation. He has led 3 projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, one key international cooperation project from the Ministry of Science and Technology (China), and one key technology project of the Ministry of Transport (China): “Research on Performance Sensing and Improvement Technology for Heavy Traffic Asphalt Pavement Structures”. Additionally, he has spearheaded or participated in over 20 other provincial and ministerial-level research projects. Prof. Cong was the principal investigator for the Science and Technology Support Program project: “Accelerated Loading Experimental Research on the Continuous Steel Box Girder Pavement of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge”. His research outcomes that significantly contributed to the successful implementation of the bridge’s pavement. He has been awarded 1 second prize and 3 third prizes for provincial and ministerial-level scientific and technological achievements, as well as 2 awards from the Shanghai Highway Society for scientific and technological innovation. He has published approximately 80 academic papers, with nearly 30 indexed by SCI and EI.
Education Experience
Ph. D. Road and Rail Engineering, Tongji University
M. Sc. (Eng.), Geotechnical Engineering, Tongji University
B. Sc. (Eng.), Civil, Tongji University
Working Experience
2009-Present Associate Professor, Vice head, Department of Road and Airport Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
2008-2009 Post Doctor Research, Department of Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University, Texas, USA
2007-Present Associate Professor, Department of Road and Airport Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
2005-2007 Lecture, Department of Road and Airport Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
2004-2005 Vice President, Communication Design and Investigation Institute of Guizhou Province, China
2003-2004 Lecture, Department of Road and Airport Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Research interests
I'm mainly engaged in pavement structure analysis, evaluation and treatment, as well as hosting “National Science Foundation” projects and “National Natural Science Foundation of China”(Study on micro-cracking mechanism of asphalt - aggregate system interface based on surface energy theory（50908175）), participating in “China Western Project” of Ministry of Transportation(Study on indicators and parameters of Asphalt Pavement Design), co-leader of international cooperation key projects of Ministry of Science and Technology(Asphalt pavement systematic behavior and distress model exploitation based on APT（MOST 2009DFA81630）) . And more than 10 research provincial - level projects and research and consulting issues of research institutions have been chaired or participated, I also won the second prize of National Scientific and Technological Progress Award for one time, the third prize for three times, and published more than 30 academic papers.
Honors & Awards
《Study on the new and old roadbed uneven settlement control technology of Xindu Line expansion project》,the third prize of Guizhou province's scientific and technological progress award,2012.
《Achevement promotion and application of "Study on the structure and material of tunnel pavement"》,the second prize of Guizhou province's scientific and technological achievements promotion,2013.
Publications
●Lin Cong, Z.Y. Guo, J.G. Fang and Y.S. Yang, Analysis and Evaluation of Transverse-Cracked Semi-Rigid-Base Asphalt Pavements Using FWD Data, ASCE 2006 Geotechnical Special Publication. (EI)
●Lin Cong, Z.Y. Guo, Research of property of Semi-rigid-base Material, Journal of Building Materials, 2001, 12.(EI)
● Z.Y. Guo, Cong Lin, Analysis of the deflection of the pavement during Construction, China Journal of Highway Engineering, 2001, 12
●Lin Cong, Siping Sun. The effect of differential settlement for widened roadbed on asphalt pavement, Shanghai Highways, 2005, No. Addition
●Lin Cong， Xiaoguang Zheng，Weimin LU, Influence of Clay Content in Fine Aggregate on Water Stability of Asphalt Mixture, Journal of Tongji University, 2006 (5) (EI)
●Lin Cong， Xiaoguang Zheng etc，Influence of Segregation in Construction on Asphalt Mixture Performance Journal of Tongji University, 2007 (4)
● Lin cong, Robert Lytton, Zhaoxing Xie, Sublayer strength Evaluation with FWD in Semi-rigid base asphalt pavement Rehabilitation Project, P392-397,Paving Materials and Pavement Analysis : Proceedings of the Geoshanghai 2010 International conference, Geotechnical Special Publication No.203, ASCE
● Zhaoxing Xie, Lin cong, Zhongyin Guo, Evaluation of Subgrade Modulus for Semi-rigid asphalt pavement using Deflection Basin Parameter, P398-404,Paving Materials and Pavement Analysis : Proceedings of the Geoshanghai 2010 International conference, Geotechnical Special Publication No.203, ASCE
● Lin Cong, Shaohui Bian, Le Tan Attenuation Model of Polishing Value of Coarse Aggregate Based on Vickers Hardness. Journal of building materials, Vol.17 ,No.2, 2014
● Lin Cong, Qian Wang, Lintao Cao. Rutting Resistance Ability related to Asphalt-Aggregate Bonding Based on Surface Energy Analysis, Proceedings of the Geoshanghai 2014 International conference, ASCE, 2014