Doctoral Thesis

• A fundamental study on fatigue cracking of asphalt pavements (in Japanese, January 1987 at Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Technical Papers written in English

• Watanabe, T. and Himeno, K.: Estimation of Fatigue Life for Asphalt Pavements, Procs. Paving in Cold Areas, Canada/Japan Science and Technology Consultations, Technical Memorandum of PWRI, Tsukuba, No.2136, pp.61-82, October, 1984
• Himeno, K., Watanabe, T. and Maruyama, T.: Estimation of Fatigue Life of Asphalt Pavement, Procs. 6th International Conference on Structural Design of Asphalt Pavements, Ann Arbor, Vol.I, pp.272-289, July 1987
• Himeno, K., Watanabe, T. and Maruyama, T.: Temperature Distributions of Asphalt Pavements, Procs. 3rd Paving in Cold Areas, Canada/Japan Science and Technology Consultations, Ottawa, pp.242-275, July 1987
• Himeno, K., Maruyama, T. and Kasahara, A.: Development of Pavement Evaluation System using the Falling Weight Deflectometer, Procs. 2nd International Symposium on Pavement Evaluation and Overlay Design, Rio de Janeiro, Vol.2, pp.4.6.1-4.6.20, September 1989
• Himeno, K., Maruyama, T., Abe, N. and Hayashi, M.: The Use of FWD Deflection Data in the Mechanistic Analysis of Flexible Pavements, Procs. the 3rd Bearing Capacity of Roads and Airfields, Trondheim, Volume 1, pp.401-410, July 1990
• Himeno, K., Kasahara, A. and Sugawara, T.: Structural Evaluation of Roller Compacted concrete Pavements based on FWD Deflection Data, Procs. the 3rd Bearing Capacity of Roads and Airfields, Trondheim, Volume 1, pp.559-584, July 1990
• Kasahara, A., Himeno, K., Kawamura, K. and Kubo, H.: Evaluation of Bearing Capacity of Existing Asphalt Pavement Using Falling Weight Deflectometer, Procs. the 3rd Bearing Capacity of Roads and Airfields, Trondheim, Volume 1, 691-702, July 1990
• Himeno, K., Sakamoto, H. and Hashimoto, K.: An Investigative Study on Production of Modified Asphalts in Japan, Procs. 4th Workshop on Paving in Cold Areas, Canada/Japan Science and Technology Agreement, Sapporo, Vol.1, pp.41-68, September 1990
• Himeno, K., Anzaki, Y. and Hashimoto, K.: An Investigative Study on Use of Modified Asphalts in Japan, Procs. 4th Workshop on Paving in Cold Areas, Canada/Japan Science and Technology Agreement, Sapporo, Vol.1, pp.417-439, September, 1990
• Kasahara, A., Himeno, K., Igarashi, M.: Seasonal Variations in Bearing Capacity of Asphalt Pavements, Procs. 4th Workshop on Paving in Cold Areas, Canada/Japan Science and Technology Agreement, Sapporo, Vol.2, pp.279-298, September 1990
• Maruyama, T., Himeno, K., Hirotsu, E. and Saika, Y.: Evaluation of Pavements in Portyards using the Falling Weight Deflectometer, Procs. the International Conference on Geotechnical Engineering for Coastal Development, Yokohama, Vol.1, pp.821-826, September 1991
• Ishitani, M., Himeno, K. and Kasahara, A.: Seasonal Variations in Bearing Capacity of Asphalt Pavements, Preprint of TRB 71st Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., No.301, January 1992
• Ichihashi, S., Fukuhara, T., Himeno, K., Kawamura, A. and Kasahara, A.: Development of a New data Acquisition System for Measuring Pavement Surface Profile, Procs. the 2nd International Symposium on Pavement Surface Characteristics of Roads and Airfields, Berlin, pp.309-324, June 1992
• Kasahara, A., Himeno, K., Kawamura, K. and Nakagawa, S.: Performance of Asphalt pavements at Bibi New Test Road in Japan Related to their Bearing Capacity, Procs. the 7th International Conference on Asphalt Pavements, Nottingham, Vol.1, August 1992
• Maruyama, T., Takahashi, O., Kenji, H. and Hayashi, M.: A Simple Temperature Estimation Method in Asphalt Mixture layers, Procs. 5th Workshop on Paving in Cold Areas, Canada/Japan Science and Technology Agreement, Kananaskis, Vol.1, pp.426-436, September 1993
• Himeno, K., Kuriyagawa, Y., Kawamura, A. and Endoh, K.: A New Pavement Surface Evaluation Method Using Fussy Set Theory, Procs. 5th Workshop on Paving in Cold Areas, Canada/Japan Science and Technology Agreement, Kananaskis, Vol.2, pp.18-36, September 1993
• Nishizawa, T., Himeno, K., Maruyama, T. and Saika, Y.: Comparison of Static and Dynamic FEM Analyses in Connection with Backcalculation of Pavement Layer Moduli Based on FWD Deflection Data, Procs. the 4th International Conference on the Bearing Capacity of Roads and Airfields, Minneapolis, Vol.1, pp.215-227, July 1994
• Kawamura, A., Himeno, K., Ogawa, S., Kuriyagawa, Y. and Ichihashi, S.: Some New Approaches to Evaluation of Road Surfaces, Procs. 6th Conference on Asphalt Pavements for Southern Africa, Cape Town, Vol.2, pp.IV_110-IV_118, October 1994
• Kameyama, S., Himeno, K., Maruyama, T. and Nishizawa, T.: Uniqueness of Backcalculated Moduli of Pavement Structure, Procs. 2nd International Conference on Road and Airfield Pavement Technology, Singapore, Vol.1, pp.639-646, September, 1995
• Ishitani, M., Kameyama, S., Himeno, K. and Kasahara, A.: Maintenance and Rehabilitation Strategy at Network Level of Pavement Management, Procs. 2nd International Conference on Road and Airfield Pavement Technology, Singapore, Vol.1, pp.674-682, September 1995
• Kawamura, A., Himeno, K., Kasahara, A., Shibazaki, R. and Kameyama, S.: Some Considerations on the Measurement and Evaluation of Road Roughness, International Journal of Vehicle Design, Vol. 3, No. I-4, pp.261-274, 1996
• Himeno, K., Kamijima, T. and Hachiya, Y.: A New Method for Evaluating Pavement Surface Using Fuzzy Sets Theory, Journal of Materials, Concrete Structures and Pavements, JSCE, No.538/V-31, pp.207-213, May 1996
• Akimoto, T., Kawamura, A., Himeno, K. and Kasahara, A.: Characteristics of Pavement Surface Profile on Airport Runways, Procs. of the 3rd International Symposium on Pavement Surface Characteristics of Roads and Airfields, Christchurch, pp.171-187, September, 1996
• Himeno, K., Kamijima, T. and Saika, Y.: Influence of Loading Waveform of FWD on backcalculated Pavement Layer Moduli, Procs. the 6th PICA, Niigata, Vol.1, pp.163-172, October 1996
• Nishizawa, T., Fukuda, T., Matsuno, S. and Himeno, K.: Curling Stress Equation for Transverse Joint Edge of a Concrete Pavement Slab Based on Finite-Element Method Analysis, Transportation Research Record, TRB, No.1525, pp.35-43, January 1997
• Himeno, K., Kamijima, T., Ikeda, T. and Abe, T.: Distribution of Tire Contact Pressure of Vehicles and Its Influence on Pavement Distress, Procs. the 8th International Conference on Asphalt Pavements, pp.129-139, Vol.1, August 1997
• Kameyama, S., Matsui, K., Himeno, K. and Kasahara, A.: Optimizing Sensor Location for FWD Test by Genetic Algorithm, Procs. 3rd International Conference on Road and Airfield Pavement Technology, Vol. 1, pp.411-419, Beijing, 1998
• Kameyama, S., Himeno, K., Ikeda, T. and Kasahara, A.: Optimization of Maintenance and Rehabilitation Strategy Using Structural Capacity Index and Surface Distress Index, Procs. 4th International Conference on Managing Pavements, Vol. 2, pp.839-853, Durban, South Africa, 1998
• Kameyama, S., Matsui, K., Kasahara, A., Himeno, K. and Maruyama, T.: Optimizing Sensor Locations for FWD Test by Genetic Algorithm, Procs. 3rd International Conference on Road and Airfield Pavement Technology, Singapore, Vol.1, pp.411-419, May 1998
• Yuge, F., Kameyama, S., Ishitani, M., Himeno, K. and Kasahara, A.: Optimizing of Pavement Maintenance and Rehabilitation Strategy Considering Bearing Capacity, Procs. 3rd International Conference on Road and Airfield Pavement Technology, Singapore, Vol.2, pp.1047-1055, May 1998
• Kameyama, S., Matsui, K., Kasahara, A., Himeno, K. and Maruyama, T.: Effect of FWD Sensor Locations on Backcalculated Layer Moduli, Procs. the 5th International Conference on the Bearing Capacity of Roads and Airfields, Trondheim, Vol.1, pp.477-485, July 1998
• Kawamura, A., Shimeno, S., Himeno, K., Komatsubara, A. and Hagiwara, T.: Study on Application of the Multiresolution Analysis to Road Profile Evaluation, Procs. 3rd International Symposium on the Environmental Impact of Road Unevenness, Porto, pp.121-132, March 1999
• Hachiya, Y., Yin, J., Takahashi, O. and Himeno, K.: Aircraft Response Based on Airport Pavement Roughness Evaluation, Journal of Materials, Concrete Structures and Pavements, JSCE, No.634/V-45, pp.403-411, November 1999
• Himeno, K., Kawamura, A. Kasahara, A. and Nishizawa, T.: Characteristics of Surface Profiles of an Airport Runway Pavement, Preprint of TRB 79th Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., January 2000
• Oguri, N. Himeno, K., Kawamura, A. and Nakamura, R.: Application of Wavelet Analysis on Evaluation of Roughness of Pavement Surfaces, Procs. 4th International Symposium on Pavement Surface Characteristics of Roads and Airfields, Nantes, pp.57-66, May 2000
• Himeno, K., Nakamura, Y. Kawamura, A. and Saito, K.: Skid Resistance of Asphalt Pavement Surfaces Related to Their Microtexture, Procs. 4th International Symposium on Pavement Surface Characteristics of Roads and Airfields, Nantes, pp.207-216, May 2000
• Nishizawa, T., Himeno, K., Nomura, K. and Uchida, K.: Development of a New Structural Model with Prism and Strip Elements for Pavement on Steel Bridge Decks, The International Journal of Geomechanics, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp.351-369, 2001
• Piao, H., Murayama, M. and Himeno, K.: Effect of Aggregate Surface Microtexture on Properties of Asphalt Mixtures, Procs. 1st CHINA/JAPAN Workshop on Pavement Technologies, pp.225-231, November 2001
• Murayama, M. and Himeno, K.: Effects of Microstructure on Deformation Characteristics of Modified Asphalt Mixtures at High Temperature, Preprint of TRB 81st Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., January 2002
• Endo, K., Himeno, K., Kawamura, A., Hachiya, Y. and Matsui, K.: Longitudinal Surface Profiles of an Airport Runway and Aircraft Motion, Procs. the 2002 Federal Aviation Administration Technology Transfer Conference, May 2002
• Uchida, K., Kurokawa, T., Himeno, K. and Nishizawa, T.: Healing Characteristics of Asphalt Mixture under High Temperature Conditions, Procs. 8th ISAP, August 2002
• Endo, K., Himeno, K., Kawamura, A., Hachiya, Y. and Matsui, K.: Evaluation of Longitudinal Runway Profile and Ride Quality Using Wavelet Analysis and Brain Waves, Preprint of TRB 82nd Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., January 2003
• De Souza. R. O., Himeno, K., Kawamura, A., Hachiya, Y. and Matsui, K.: Evaluation of Longitudinal Profiles for Airport Runways, International Conference Airports: Planning, Infrastructure and Environment, Rio de Janeiro, June 2003
• Endo, K., Himeno, K., Kawamura, A., Hachiya, Y. and Matsui, K.: Evaluation of Longitudinal Profiles of an Airport Runway and Ride Comfort, Third International Symposium on Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Pavements and Technical Control, Guimar?es, July 2003
• Himeno, K., Nishizawa, T., Uchida, K., Nomura K. and Higashi, S.: Longitudinal Surface Cracking in Asphalt Pavements on Steel Bridge Decks using Energy Dissipation Theory, Procs. 2nd JAPAN/CHINA Workshop on Pavement Technologies, pp.293-302, November 2003
• Dong, Q., Himeno, K., Hachiya, Y. and Matsui, K.: Time Domain Backcalculation of Material Properties in Pavements Modeled as Layered Viscoelastic System, Preprint of TRB 83rd Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., January 2004
• Dong, Q., Hachiya, Y., Endo, K., Himeno, K., Kawamura, A. and Matsui, K.: Airport pavement roughness evaluation based on aircraft dynamic response, Procs. the International Society for Optical Engineering, Vol. 5394, pp.118-226, San Diego, March 2004
• Nishizawa, T., Himeno, K., Uchida, K., Nomura, K. and Higashi, S.: Longitudinal Surface Cracking in Asphalt Pavement on Steel Bridge Deck, Procs. 5th International RILEM Conference, Cracking in Pavements, pp.537-544, Limoges, May 2004
• Hachiya, Y., Himeno, K. and Tsubokawa, Y.: Practical Method for Urgent Repairs of Cracked Airport Pavements, Procs. 5th International RILEM Conference, Cracking in Pavements, pp.579-588, Limoges, May 2004
• Hachiya, Y., Himeno, K., Hao, P. and Tsubokawa, Y.: Application of Recycled Asphalt Concrete in Airport Pavement Surface Courses, Procs. 3rd Eurasphalt and Eurobitume Congress, Vienna, pp.20-30, May 2004
• Dong, Q., Himeno, K., Hachiya, Y., Matsui, K. and Kawamura, A.: Visco-Elastic Analysis of Airport Pavements Due to Aircraft-Runway Dynamic Interaction, Procs. 5th Symposium on Pavement Surface Characteristics, Roads and Airfields, pp. 89.1-89.12, June 2004
• Dong, Q., Matsui, K., Li, H., Himeno, K. and Hachiya, Y.: Backcalculation Procedure of Pavement Layer Moduli Through Lame Constants from Falling-Weight Deflectometer Measurements, Preprint of TRB 84th Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., January 2005
• Souza, R., Himeno, K. and Kobayashi, A.: Behavior of asphalt-rubber binders along different times of digestion, Procs the 2005 International Symposium on Pavement Recycling, Sao Paulo-SP paper 049-01. 15p, (CD-ROM), March 2005
• Souza, R., Himeno, K., Kobayashi, A. and Kougo, K.: Influence of Time of Digestion on Asphalt-Rubber Binders Using Different Rubber Particles Size, Procs. 5th International Conference on Road and Airfield Pavement Technology, Seoul, pp.443-450, May 2005
• Kubodera, T., Dong, Q., Himeno, K. and Matsui, K.: Influence of Damping Ratio on the Evaluation of Pavement Structures Using SASW, Procs. 5th International Conference on Road and Airfield Pavement Technology, Seoul, pp.1082-1090, May 2005
• Ishida, S., Kameyama, S., Kawabata, S., Himeno, K. and Kashima, S.: Application of Portable Profilers Developed in Japan for Measurement of Sidewalk Evenness, Procs. 5th International Conference on Road and Airfield Pavement Technology, Seoul, pp.928-936, May 2005
• Kanai, K. Matsui, K. and Himeno, K.: Applicability of Static and Dynamic Analytical Methods to Structural Evaluation of Flexible Pavements Using FWD Data, Procs. the 7th International Conference on the Bearing Capacity of Roads and Airfields, Trondheim, pp.124.1-124.9 (CD-ROM), July 2005
• Kubodera, T., Himeno, K. and Sekine, E.: Analytical Study on Evaluation of Subgrade Modulus Using Portable FWD, Procs. the 7th International Conference on the Bearing Capacity of Roads and Airfields, Trondheim, pp.134.1-134.11(CD-ROM), July 2005
• Souza, R., Himeno, K. and Kobayashi, A.: Evaluation of Time of Digestion of Asphalt-Rubber Binders, Procs the Seventh International Summer Symposium. Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE), Tokyo, pp.369-372, July 2005
• Souza, R., Himeno, K. and Kobayashi, A.: Performance Evaluation of Asphalt-Rubber Concrete Mixtures, Procs the Fourth International Conference on Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Pavements and Technological Control (mairepav 4), Belfast, North Ireland, paper 121. 11p (CD-ROM), August 2005
• Souza, R., Himeno, K. and Kobayashi, A.: Evaluation of Japanese Asphalt Binders and Asphalt Mixtures After Mixing Ground Rubber, Procs 3rd International SIIV Congress about People, Land, Environment and Transport Infrastructures, Bari, Paper 040. 15p (CD-ROM), September 2005
• Kanai, T. Higashi, S., Matsui, K.and Himeno, K.: Development of Rut Depth Prediction Model Considering Deformation of Asphalt Layer and Subgrade, Procs. The 16th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechinical Engineering, Osaka, Japan, September 2005
• Dong, Q., Tezuka, A., Himeno, K. and Matsui, K.: Identification of Material Properties for Pavement Structures in Time Domain, Procs. Int. Conf. Numer. Anal. Appl. Math., pp.164-167, Eds. T. E. Simos, WILEY-VCH, 2005
• Dong, Q., Kubodera, T. Himeno, K. and Matsui, K.: Structural evaluation of pavement using surface wave and portable FWD tests, Procs. the International Society for Optical Engineering, Vol. 6177, San Diego, March 2006
• Kogo, K. and Himeno, K.: Raveling Resistance of Porous Asphalt Pavements, Procs. 4th JAPAN/CHINA Workshop on Pavement Technologies, pp.3-12, July 2007
• Kogo, K. and Himeno, K.: The Effects of Different Waveforms and Rest Period in Cyclic Loading on the Fatigue Behavior of the Asphalt Mixtures, 6th RILEM International Conference on Cracking in Pavements, Chicago, May 2008
• Fujii, M., Himeno, K., Kougo, K. and Murayama, M.: Physical Properties of Asphalt Rubber Mixtures, Procs. 6th International Conference on Road and Airfield Pavement Technology, July 2008
• Wachi, T., Saeki, Y., Kogo, K. and Himeno, K.: Fatigue Behavior of Bituminous Mixtures under Repeated Loading in Low Strain Level, Procs. 5th CHINA/JAPAN Workshop on Pavement Technologies, pp.157-163, September 2009
• Kwak, K. and Himeno, K.: Evaluation of Driving Comfort and Steering Stability Using Two-Dimensional Profile of Pavement Surface, Third International Symposium on Infrastructure Engineering in Developing Countries (IEDC 2010) and 1st International Conference on Sustainable Transportation & Traffic Management, pp.105-113, July 2010
• Maekawa, R. and Himeno, K.: Characterization of Asphalt Mixture Stress-Strain Behavior on Push-Pull Fatigue Tests and Visco-Elastic Analyses, International Conference on Road and Airfield Pavement Technology, pp.1125-1136, August 2011
• Hirato, K., Himeno, K.and Murayama, M.: A study of Longitudinal Crack which occurs to the Surface of Asphalt pavement by Wheel Tracking test, 8th RILEM International Conference on Mechanisms of Cracking and Debonding in Pavements, pp.81-87, June 2016
• Hirato, T., Himeno, K., Murayama, M. and Takahashi, S.: Effect of Long-term Aging on Rheological Properties of Asphalt, Journal of the Japan Petroleum Institute. Vol. 59, No. 3, pp.97-103, July 2016
• Hirato, T., Himeno, K., Murayama, M. and Takahashi, S.: A Study on the Properties of Asphalt Aging in Expressway Focusing on weather Degradation for Long period, Procs International Society for Asphalt Pavements, July 2016
• Yuu SHIRAI, Tsutomu ISHIGAKI, Atsushi KAWAKAMI, Masaru TERADA and Kenji HIMENO: Relationships between Rolling Resistance and Surface Characteristics on Asphalt Pavement, Procs. 8th JAPAN/CHINA Workshop on Pavement Technologies, pp.363-372, November 2018