Kamal Khayat

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Kamal Khayat

Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation; Vernon and Maralee Jones Professor of Civil Engineering

 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1431-0715
1989 …2026

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Professor Khayat joined Missouri S&T in 2011 as the Vernon and Maralee Jones Professor of Civil Engineering and Director of the Center for Infrastructure Engineering Studies. Between 8/2011 and 6/2014, he directed the Center for Transportation Infrastructure and Safety, a National University Transportation Center (UTC). The $37M grant funded 174 research, equipment, and education projects. He also directed the Tier-1 UTC, Research on Concrete Applications for Sustainable Transportation between 9/2013 and 12/2019. He was the Champion for the Advanced Materials for Sustainable Infrastructure Signature Area and the UM System’s new Tier-2 Center for Novel Carbon-Efficient Binders for Sustainable Infrastructure.

Dr. Khayat received undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. Between 1990 and 2011, Dr. Khayat was professor of Civil Engineering at the Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, where he last served as Director of the Integrated Research Laboratory on Materials Valorization and Innovative and Durable Structures, a 40,000-ft2 state-of-the-art facility made possible by a grant of C$16M from the Canadian Foundation of Innovation. At Missouri S&T, he led efforts to establish the Clayco Advanced Construction and Materials Laboratory – a 14,500-ft2 state-of-the-art research facility inaugurated in 2020. 

Professor Khayat is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading concrete scientists. His pioneering work in the rheology of cement-based materials contributed to the pioneering of self-consolidating concrete (SCC). SCC has become the new normal in high-rise buildings, precast applications, and structural repair, given its potential to greatly improve construction efficiency and safety, reduce costs, and extend service life. He has chaired/co-chaired several international conferences, including the 2020 Gordon Research Conference (Ventura Beach, CA), SCC2016 (Washington, DC), SCC2010 (Montreal), and other conferences in China, France, Poland, and the UAE. His outstanding and creative contributions to innovation, leadership, and technology transfer have been recognized by several international organizations, including the 2020 University of Missouri System President’s Award for Sustained Career Excellence in STEM/Natural Sciences, the 2020 Robert E. Philleo Award, the 2018 Wason Medal, the 2017 J.-C. Roumain Award, and the 2015 Arthur Anderson Medal from the American Concrete Institute. In September 2019, he was honored for his lifetime achievements in the field of SCC at an international conference in Germany held in his honor.

Professor Khayat was awarded over 143 research projects with approximate funding of $32M as PI and $14M as co-PI. He has advised 43 Ph.D. students, 46 MSc students, and 23 post-doctoral fellows and visiting scholars. He has co-authored over 500 publications, 11 contributions to books and book chapters, and served as editor/co-editor of 19 books and conference proceedings.    

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Office of Research & Innovation
Missouri University of Science and Technology
202A Centennial Hall, 300 W. 12th Street
Rolla, MO 65409-1330 USA

Phone: (573) 341-6211

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Education/Academic qualification

Ph. D. in Civil Engineering, Concrete Technology, University of California, Berkeley

… → 1989

M.S. in Structural Engineering, University of California, Berkeley

… → 1985

Master of Engineering, Construction Engineering and Management, University of California, Berkeley

… → 1984

B.S. in Civil Engineering (concentration: Structural Engineering), University of California, Berkeley

… → 1982

Research Interests

  • Design and performance of advanced construction and repair materials, including high-performance concrete, self-consolidating concrete, underwater concrete, and specialty grouts
  • Rheology and workability of cement-based materials
  • Optimization of chemical admixtures and supplementary cementitous materials and fillers for concrete
  • Microstructure of cement-based materials
  • Valorization of industrial by-products and recycled aggregate in concrete
  • Fiber reinforcement
  • Repair and rehabilitation of civil engineering infrastructure
  • Development of novel test methods to evaluate rheology and workability of cement-based materials
  • Instrumentation and structural health monitoring of structures

Disciplines

  • Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Civil Engineering
  • Structural Engineering
  • Transportation Engineering
  • Engineering Education
  • Materials Science and Engineering
  • Structural Materials

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