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Staff Profiles - Rayya A. Hassan



Rayya Hassan

Contact Details:

Office Location: EN 701b
Phone: +61 3 9214 8033
Fax: +61 3 9214 8264
Email:rahassan@swin.edu.au

Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences
Swinburne University of Technology
PO Box 218
Hawthorn, Victoria, 3122
Australia

Rayya A. Hassan
Senior Lecturer – Civil Engineering

Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology, 2003.
MEng Construction Management, Swinburne University of Technology, 1997.
B.Sc. in Civil Engineering, University of Baghdad, Iraq, 1982

Past Organisations

  • ARRB Group Ltd
  • Swinburne University of Technology
  • Baghdad Municipality, Iraq


Areas of Expertise and Research

  • Road roughness and rideability
  • Whole body vibration, analysis and interpretation
  • Road-vehicle interaction and dynamic wheel loading
  • Heavy vehicle dynamics
  • Pavement design and performance
  • Life cycle cost analysis
  • Multi-objective analysis
  • Transport economics
  • Traffic engineering and management


Publications

 

a) Book Chapter:

  1. Hassan R and McManus, 2007, ‘Perception of low Frequency Vibrations by Heavy Vehicle Drivers’, The effects of low-frequency noise and vibration on people, chapter 5, Multi-Science Publishing Co. Ltd., Essex, United Kingdom

b)   Refereed Journal papers:

  1. Hassan, R. (2005), ‘Ensuring Successful Implementation of Asset Management Systems’, Road and Transport Research, Vol.4, No.3, pp. 86-90, ARRB Group, Vermont South, Australia.
  2. Hassan, R. and McManus K., (2003), Assessment of the Interaction Between Road Roughness and Heavy Vehicles, Transportation Research Record, No. 1819, Vol. 2 pp.236-243, Journal of the Transportation Research Board Washington DC, USA.
  3. Hassan R. and McManus K., (2002), Perception of low frequency vibrations by heavy vehicle drivers, Journal of Low Frequency Noise, Vibration and Active Control, Vol. 21 No. 2, Multi-Science Publishing Company Ltd, UK.
  4. Hassan R. and McManus K., (2001), “Estimating Dynamic Loading of Pavements From Surface Profile Properties”, Road and Transport Research Journal, Volume 10 No 3, pp 3-19, ARRB Transport Research Ltd, Australia
  5. Hassan R., McManus K., Holden J., (1999), "Predicting Pavement Deterioration Modes Using Waveband Analysis", Transportation Research Record, No. 1652, Vol. 2, pp. 181-187, National Research Council, Transportation Research Board Washington DC, USA.

c)   Refereed Conference papers:

  1. Hassan R, Martin T, Thoresen T, Jameson G, Roper R, (2008), ‘Economic Evaluation of Increasing Heavy Vehicle Axle Mass Limits’, accepted for publication in the proceedings of the 23rd ARRB conference, Adelaide, Australia, July 2008, ARRB Group, Vermont South, Australia.
  2. Michel N., Hassan R., Roberts J., (2008), ‘FAMLIT: Freight Axle Mass Limits Investigation Tool’, accepted for publication in the proceedings of the 23rd ARRB conference, Adelaide, Australia, July 2008, ARRB Group, Vermont South, Australia.
  3. Hassan R., Thoresen T., Martin T., Roper R., ‘High productivity vehicles and pavement economic impacts’ (2008), accepted for publication in the proceedings of  the 3rd European Pavement and Asset Management Conference (EPAM3), July 2008, Coimbra, Portugal.
  4. Michel N., Hassan R and Roberts J., (2008), ‘FAMLIT-A new Pavement Assessment Tool,’ accepted for publication in the proceedings of the 3rd European Pavement and Asset Management Conference (EPAM3), July 2008, Coimbra, Portugal.
  5. Hassan R, McManus K & Cossens I, 2006, 'Development of HATI - Heavy articulated truck index', Proceedings of the 22nd ARRB conference, Canberra October 2006, ARRB Group, Vermont South, Vic.
  6. Hassan R, Roper R & Hoque Z, 2006, 'Trading off maintenance intervention criteria across road assets to meet budget', Proceedings of the 22nd ARRB conference, Canberra, October 2006, ARRB Group, Vermont South, Vic.
  7. Hassan R. and McManus K., (2001), “Truck Ride Number- A New Management Tool”, Proceedings of the 20th ARRB Conference on Managing your Transport Assets, 19-21 March, Melbourne, Australia.
  8. Alcazar, E., Hassan, R., McManus, K. (2004), Towards Sustainable Local Road Pavements, proceedings of the Sustainable City 2004 conference, Siena, Italy 16-18 June 2004.
  9. Hassan R. and McManus K., (2001), “Heavy Vehicle Ride and Driver Comfort”, SP (special publication) – 1591, paper No. 2001-01-0386, SAE World Congress, Society of Automotive Engineers, March 5-8, Cobo Centre, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
  10. Hassan R. and McManus K., (2001), “Factors affecting Truck Driver’s Comfort”, Proceedings of the SAE 2001 Noise and Vibration conference and Exhibition, paper No. 2001-01-1571, Society of Automotive Engineers, April 30- May 3, Traverse City, Michigan, USA.
  11. Hassan R. and McManus, K., (2000), "Truck driver perception as an indicator of pavement performance", Proceedings of the 10th Road Engineering Association of Asia and Australia (REAAA) conference on road development for the 21st Century, Tokyo/ Japan, 4-9 September.
  12. Hassan R., McManus K., Evans R., (1998), “Roughness Waveband Characteristics as an Indicator of Pavement Deterioration", 19th ARRB conference, Investing in -Transport, Sydney, 7-11 Dec.
  13. McManus K., Hassan R., Sukkar F., (1997), “Founding Road Embankments on Peat and Organic Soils”, proceedings of the Conference On Recent Advances in Soft Soil Engineering, Sarawak/ Malaysia, (5-7) March.
  14. McManus K., Sukkar F., Hassan R., (1997), “Construction Technology  for Supporting Light Structures on Sarawak’s Soft Soils- Malaysia” proceedings of the Conference On Recent Advances in Soft Soil Engineering, Sarawak/ Malaysia, (5-7) March.
  15. Hassan R., and McManus (1997), Founding Road Embankments on Peat and Organic Deposits, a report prepared for Road Authority, Sarawak/Malaysia.

d) Consulting/Research reports :

  1. Hassan R, Martin T., Thoresen T, Jameson G, Evans C., Roper E and Michel N. (2008), ‘ High productivity vehicles and pavement economic impacts: Network level assessment approach, Austroads report, in press.
  2. Hassan R. (2007), Process for Setting intervention criteria and allocating budgets-Literature review, Austroads Report AP-T80/07, Austroads, Sydney.
  3. Su M. and Hassan R (2007), ‘Application of the analytical hierarchy process in road asset management’, Austroads report AP-T84/07, Austroads.
  4. Hassan R., Roper R. and Salvador F (2008), Process of Setting Intervention criteria and allocating budgets: process description and application, Austroads report AP-T69/06, Austroads, Sydney.
  5. Moffatt M. and Hassan R. (2006),’Guide to asset management: part 5E: cracking’, Austroads report AGAM05E/06 Austroads, Sydney.
  6. Moffatt M and Hassan R (2006), Guide to asset management: part 5C: rutting, Austroads report AGAM05C/06, Austroads, Sydney.
  7. Hassan, R. and McManus K., (2004), Providing Better Ride Quality for Freight Industry, A report prepared for VicRoads, consultancy agreement RD888.
  8. Hassan R., McManus K., (1998), The Effect of Long Wavelength Roughness on Pavement Damage, Safety, User’ costs and Comfort, A report prepared for VicRoads.

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