7th RILEM International Conference on Cracking in Pavements

to Thermal Cracking in a Comparative Site Pavement Performance Study.-  Influence of Differential Displacements of Airport Pavements on Aircraft Fuelling Systems.-  Rehabilitation of cracking in epoxy asphalt pavement on steel bridge decks.-  Long-term pavement performance evaluation.-  Structural Assessment of Cracked Flexible Pavement.-  Comparison Between Optimum Tack Coat Application Rates as Obtained from Shear- and Tension-type Tests.-  Using Life Cycle Assessment to Optimize Pavement Crack-Mitigation.-  Preliminary Analysis of Quality-Related Specification Approach for Cracking on Low Volume Hot Mix Asphalt Roads.-  Evaluating root resistance of asphaltic pavement focusing on woody plants' root growth.-  20 Years of Research on Asphalt Reinforcement - Achievements and Future Needs.-  Concrete Pavement Strength Investigations at the FAA National Airport Pavement Test Facility.-  Pavement cracking modeling response, crack analysis and damage prediction: The Effects Non-Uniform Contact Pressure Distribution has on Surface Distress of Flexible Pavements using a Finite Element Method.-  Finite Element Analysis of a New Test Specimen for Investigating Mixed Mode Cracks in Asphalt Overlays .-  Modelling of the Initiation and Development of Transverse Cracks in Jointed Plain Concrete Pavements for Dutch Conditions.-  Pavement Response Excited by Road Unevennesses using the Boundary Element Method.-  Discrete particle element analysis of aggregate interaction in granular mixes for asphalt: combined DEM and experimental study.-  Recent Developments and Applications of Pavement Analysis Using Nonlinear Damage (PANDA) Model.-  Laboratory and Computational Evaluation of Compact Tension Fracture Test and Texas Overlay Tester for Asphalt Concrete.-  Crack Fundamental Element (CFE) for Multi-scale Crack Classification .-  Cracking Models for Use in Pavement Maintenance Management.-  Multi-cracks modeling in reflective cracking.-  Using Black Space Diagrams to Predict Age-Induced Cracking.-  Top-Down Cracking Prediction Tool for Hot Mix Asphalt Pavements.-  A theoretical investigation into the 4 point bending Test.-  Multiscale Micromechanical Lattice Modeling of Cracking in Asphalt Concrete.-  Accelerated Pavement Performance Modeling Using Layered Viscoelastic Analysis.-  Numerical investigations on the deformation behavior of concrete pavements.-  Fatigue behavior modelling in the Mechanistic Empirical Pavement Design.-  Theoretical Analysis of Overlay Resisting Crack Propagation in Old Cement Concrete Pavement.-  Calibration of Asphalt Concrete Cracking Models for California Mechanistic-Empirical Design (CalME).-  Performance of concrete pavements and white toppings: Shear Failure in Plain Concrete as Applied to Concrete Pavement Overlays.-  Influence of Residual Stress on PCC Pavement Potential Cracking.-  Plain Concrete Cyclic Crack Resistance Curves under Constant and Variable Amplitude Loading.-  Influence of external alkali supply on cracking in concrete pavements.-  Plastic Shrinkage Cracking Risk of Concrete - Evaluation of Test Methods.-  Compatibility between base concrete made with different chemical admixtures and surface hardener.-  Compatibility between a quartz surface hardener and different base concrete mixtures.-  Suitable Restrained Shrinkage Test for Fibre Reinforced Concrete: a critical discussion.-  Influence of Chemical Admixtures and Environmental Conditions on Initial Hydration of Concrete.-  Application of different fibers to reduce plastic shrinkage cracking of concrete.-  Fatigue cracking and damage characterization of asphalt concrete: Evaluation of Fatigue Life Using Dissipated Energy Methods.-  Measurement and prediction model of the fatigue behavior of glass fiber reinforced bituminous mixture.-  Fatigue Cracking in Bituminous Mixture using Four Point Bending Test.-  Top-down and Bottom-up Fatigue Cracking of Bituminous Pavements Subjected to Tangential Moving Loads.-  Fatigue Performance of Highly Modified Asphalt Mixtures in Laboratory and Field Environment.-  A multi-linear fatigue life model of flexible pavements under multiple axle loadings.-  Aggregate Base/Granular Subbase Quality Affecting Fatigue Cracking of Conventional Flexible Pavements in Minnesota.-  Fatigue Performance of Asphalt Concretes with RAP aggregates and Steel Slags.-  Fatigue Characterization of Asphalt Rubber Mixtures with Steel Slags.-  Fatigue Cracking of Gravel Asphalt Concrete.-  Cumulative Damage Determination.-  Fatigue Resistance and Crack Propagation Evaluation of a Rubber-Modified Gap Graded Mixture in Sweden.-  On the Fatigue Criterion for Calculating the Thickness of Asphalt Layers.-  Acoustic Techniques for Fatigue Cracking Mechanisms Characterization in Hot Mix Asphalt (HMA) .-  Fatigue characteristics of sulphur modified asphalt mixtures.-  Effect of Moisture Conditioning on Fatigue Properties of Sulphur Modified Asphalt Mixtures.-  Fatigue investigation of mastics and bitumens using Annular Shear Rheometer prototype equipped with wave propagation system.-  Effect of Steel Fibre Content on the Fatigue Behaviour of Steel Fibre Reinforced Concrete.-  Effect of Specimen Size on Fatigue Behavior of Asphalt Mixture in Laboratory Fatigue tests .-  Evaluation of the effectiveness of asphalt concrete modification.-  Long-Life Overlays By Use Of Highly Modified Bituminous Mixtures.-  Investigation into Tensile properties of Polymer Modified Bitumen  (PMB) and Mixture Performance .-  Effect of Polymer Dispersion on the Rheology and Morphology of Polymer Modified Bituminous Blend.-  Effect of Organoclay Modified Binders on Fatigue Performance.-  Effects of Polymer Modified Asphalt Emulsion (PMAE) on Pavement Reflective Cracking Performance .-  Characterization of long term field aging of polymer modified bitumen in porous asphalt.-  Bending Beam Rheological Evaluation of Wax Modified Asphalt Binders.-  Reducing Asphalt's Low Temperature Cracking by Disturbing its Crystallization.-  MechanisticEvaluationof Lime-ModifiedAsphaltConcreteMixtures.-  Crack growth parameters & mechanisms: Determination of crack growth parameters of asphalt mixtures.-  Differential Thermal Contraction of Asphalt Components.-  Mechanistic Pavement Design Considering Bottom-Up And Top-Down-Cracking.-  Strength and Fracture Properties of Aggregates.-  Cracks Characteristics and Damage Mechanism of Asphalt Pavement with Semi-rigid Base.-  Comparing the Slope of Load/Displacement Fracture Curves of Asphalt Concrete.-  Cracking Behaviour of Bitumen Stabilised Materials (BSMs): Is there such a thing?.-  Experimental and theoretical investigation of three dimensional strain occurring near the surface in asphalt concrete layers.-  Reasons of Premature Cracking Pavement Deterioration - A Case Study.-  Effect of thickness of a sandwiched layer of bitumen between two aggregates on the bond strength: an experimental study.-  Hypothesis of existence semicircular shaped cracks on asphalt pavements.-  Quantifying the relationship between mechanisms of failure and the deterioration of CRCP under APT: cointegration of non-stationary time series.-  Influence of Horizontal Traction on Top-Down Cracking in Asphalt Pavements.-  Evaluation, quantification and modeling of asphalt healing properties: Predictingthe PerformanceoftheInduction Healing Porous Asphalt Test Section.-  Determining the healing potential of asphalt concrete mixtures - A pragmatic approach.-  Asphalt durability and self-healing modelling with discrete particles approach.-  Quantifying healing based on viscoelastic continuum damage theory in fine aggregate asphalt specimen.-  Evaluation of WMA Healing Properties Using Atomic Force Microscopy.-  Cracking and Healing Modelling of Asphalt Mixtures.-  Reinforcement & interlayer systems for crack mitigation: Effects of Glass Fiber/Grid Reinforcement on the Crack Growth Rate of an Asphalt Mix.-  Asphalt Rubber Interlayer Benefits in Minimizing Reflective Cracking of Overlays over Rigid Pavements.-  Performance of anti-cracking interface systems on overlaid cement concrete slabs - development of laboratory test to simulate slab rocking.-  The use of bituminous membranes and geosynthetics in the pavement construction.-  Stress Relief Asphalt Layer and Reinforcing Polyester Grid as Anti-Reflective Cracking Composite Interlayer System in Pavement Rehabilitation.-  Characterizing the effects of geosynthetics in asphalt pavements.-  Geogrid Interlayer Performance in Pavements : Tensile-Bending Test for Crack Propagation .-  Theoretical and computational analysis of airport flexible pavements reinforced with geogrids.-  Optimization of Geocomposites for Double-Layered Bituminous Systems.-  Sand Mix Interlayer Retarding Reflective Cracking in Asphalt Concrete Overlay.-  Full scale tests on grid reinforced flexible pavements on the French fatigue carrousel.-  Thermal and low temperature cracking of pavements: Low-temperature cracking of recycled asphalt mixtures.-  Thermal Cracking Potential in Asphalt Mixtures with High RAP Contents.-  Micro-Mechanical Investigation of Low Temperature Fatigue Cracking Behaviour of Bitumen.-  The Study on Evaluation Methods of Asphalt Mixture Low Temperature Performance.-  Cracking propensity of WMA & recycled asphalts: Permanent Deformations of WMAs related to the Bituminous Binder Temperature Susceptibility .-  Cracking resistance of recycled asphalt mixtures in relation to blending of RA and virgin binder.-  Warm Mix Asphalt Performance Modeling Using the Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide.-  Shrinkage and Creep Performance of Recycled Aggregate Concrete.-  Effect of Reheating Plant Warm SMA on Its Fracture Potential.-  Fatigue Cracking Characteristics of Cold In-Place Recycled Pavements.