Workshop on Fracture Mechanics for
Concrete Pavements: Theory to Practice
The final proceedings (4.24 MB, pdf) of this workshop can
be downloaded here.
In all, 34 participants were
involved at the Workshop on Fracture Mechanics for Concrete Pavements in
The objective of this workshop was
to bring together leading scholars in concrete pavement research and fracture
mechanics in order to develop recommendations for research needs in the
development of advanced fracture mechanic concepts for concrete pavements.
Based on participant presentations and discussions at the workshop, a research
needs document will be written and submitted by the workshop organizers to the
following organizations which can support concrete pavement research including
NSF, TRB, NCHRP, FHWA and ISCP.
The workshop featured two invited
keynote presentations summarizing the state-of-the art in concrete fracture
mechanics modeling, testing, and relevant applications presented by Dr.
Surendra Shah (Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA) and Dr. Tom
Scarpas (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands).
In addition to the keynote
addresses, 19 presentations were made representing 7 countries around the
globe. Each participant made a short presentation followed by a round table
discussion.
Recommendations were made to the
8th International Conference on Concrete Pavements after a closing discussed
and voted on by the participants. Due to
the success of this first workshop, it was decided by the participants to
continue this workshop to coincide with the 9th ICCP to be held in
the summer of 2008.