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Member Profile: Dr. B. Frank McCullough Member
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ISCP Mid-Year Board Meeting on
Hold Plans to hold the 2009 mid-year meeting of ISCP’s Board of
Directors in Revised meeting plans will be posted on the ISCP website (www.concretepavements.org)
as soon as they are complete. As
always, the meeting will be open to all members.
During
the Through
a strictly refereed peer review process, the conference Scientific Committee
has accepted approximately 160 high-quality papers, which will be presented
during the conference and published in a two-volume hardcover proceedings
with an indexed CD-ROM. The
Exhibit
Opportunities: The For
registration and information about the conference schedule, exhibit space,
travel arrangements, and lodging reservations, please visit the conference
website: The
deadline for early registration for participants and exhibitors is 11th International Symposium on
Concrete Roads: Abstract Submittal Deadline
Approaches
For
more information about the Symposium, please visit the Symposium website: www.2010pavimentosdehormigon.org/content.php (Spanish
site; click on The
American Concrete Institute ( ·
Woody
Vogt from Paradigm Consultants – Paving
Designer’s Responsibilities to Minimize Cracking ·
Dan
Zollinger from ·
Neeraj
Buch from ·
Jay
Shilstone from Shilstone-Day Technologies – Concrete Mixture Design for Pavement Some
of the presentations from the session are available for download at: www.concrete.org/Convention/spring-Convention/PresentationDetail.asp?EventId=ZHOT The
session gathered an attendance of over 50 FHWA Conference
Ends on a High Note
A
total of 155 attendees from eight countries and 29 US States participated.
There were seven technical sessions and three practice oriented forums. The
keynote presentations in the Plenary Session were presented by Mr. Raymond
Debroux, Inspecteur Général, Service Public de Wallonie, Inquiries
related to the conference proceedings may be made to: Shiraz Tayabji, Fugro
Consultants, Inc., Email: stayabji@aol.com.
Dr.
McCullough built upon that foundation of family values and hard work to earn
B.S. and M.S. degrees in civil engineering from the Dr.
McCullough is currently an Emeritus Professor of Transportation Engineering
at The University of Texas – Austin, where he has conducted research and
taught thousands of students over a period of nearly 50 years. During this time, Professor McCullough has
been responsible for the conduct of more than 100 research projects
concerning a broad range of topics related to Portland cement concrete
pavements, asphalt concrete pavements, gravel and low-volume roads, highways,
airports, high-speed guideways, and commercial building slabs. He was an early pioneer in the development
of project- and network-level pavement management systems for the Texas
Highway Department, the U.S. Forest Service, and NCHRP, as well as in the
development of mechanistic overlay design concepts. He has also been involved with the
development and characterization of the properties of various construction
materials, which have led to the conduct of projects for developing performance-based
specifications. He was instrumental in
the development of the 1986/1993 AASHTO Guide for the Design of Pavement
Structures, which has a primary tool for pavement design around the world for
more than 20 years. Professor
McCullough has also been a very active teacher and advisor, having guided
more than 100 students to M.S. or Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering. He has also taught special short and
continuing education courses for The University of Texas, the He
served as Director for the Center for Transportation Research at The
University of Texas from 1980 to 1999.
Under his direction the annual budget of the Center grew from $800,000
per year to approximately $10 million per year. By the time he retired from the position,
the Center was engaging in more than 70 research projects each year and was
employing more than 300 full- and part-time workers (faculty, professional
staff, and graduate and undergraduate students.) Dr.
McCullough was a co-founder of the consulting firm Austin Research Engineers,
which specialized in Highway and Airport Engineering. This company eventually
expanded to three sites in the Frank
still lives in the Dr.
McCullough was named an Honorary Member of ISCP in the Charter Class of
2001. The International Society for
Concrete Pavements is proud to have Dr. B. Frank McCullough as an Honorary
Member!
ISCP Member
becomes American
Concrete Institute ( This
year at the A
listing of all www.concrete.org/MEMBERS/mem_info_fellows.htm ISCP
congratulates Dr. Buch on being recognized by ISCP Member
Garners Jussara
Tanesi (employed by SaLUT, Inc and currently serving the US FHWA at the
Turner Fairbank Highway Research Center) received the A
description of all www.concrete.org/MEMBERS/mem_info_awards.htm ISCP Welcomes New
Members ISCP
would like to welcome the following new members, who have joined the Society
since
ISCP
thanks these new members for their support of the Society and looks forward
to their participation in Society activities.
Evaluation of Soy
Methyl Ester Polystyrene Blends For Use in Concrete By: Kevin
Christopher Coates, MSCE December 2008 Major
Professor: Jason Weiss There
are hundreds of commercial admixtures and topically applied products
available for use with concrete. These products have gone through a battery
of tests to evaluate their performance for their intended use, as well as
their affect on all properties of the fresh and finished concrete product.
Just as the existing admixtures and topical compounds have been tested and
evaluated, any new substances that may have possible applications with the
modification of cementitious materials must also be tested and evaluated.
This thesis evaluates the potential use of Soy Methyl Ester (SME) in the
field of concrete. Soy Methyl Esters have been used as an alternative,
renewable fuel source. SME has proven to have other promising applications
related to the use of concrete. Through testing of the SME Polystyrene
(SME-PS) blends in different applications, the performance of the SME is
measured and in some cases compared to other commercial products. The effects
of the SME on cementitious materials were measured for several properties including:
compressive strength, shrinkage, viscosity, setting and hydration time, air
content, evaporation rate, SME penetration, water absorption, and chloride
penetration. The information acquired from these tests is meant to be used as
a basis for continuing research related to the use of SME blends in the
concrete construction industry. This pilot study has identified the potential
for SME-PS blends to be used in both admixed and topical applications to reduce
fluid transport. Results from sorption tests show that samples with SME-PS
blends admixed reduce water absorption by 74-94%. In topical applications,
reductions of 85-93% were obtained. Testing performed to examine chloride ion
ingress showed reductions of up to 77% in chloride penetration depth. These
reductions in absorption have direct implications on the durability of the
concrete, and the results show the ability of SME-PS to reduce transport
within cementitious systems without significantly impacting their basic
mechanical properties.
PIARC Virtual
Library Provides Free Downloads Online PIARC
has a virtual library containing their technical reports, congress
proceedings, and more. Some of these documents can be downloaded from online
for free. These
documents and others from the PIARC library are available in English or
French and can be found on the website: http://publications.piarc.org/en/technical-reports/ Green Streets
Calculator Now Available Online! We all know that concrete
pavements offer tremendous environmental advantages over alternative paving
materials, but quantifying those advantages has been difficult. Until now! The American Concrete Pavement
Association (ACPA) has created an online calculator that allows agencies,
planning organizations, roadbuilders, and others to calculate the estimated
fuel- and cost-savings associated with building a concrete pavement versus an
asphalt pavement. This calculator considers inputs such as pavement length,
concrete and asphalt pavement thicknesses, fuel costs, traffic levels and
pavement design life to calculate savings in fuel consumption (both during
construction and by vehicles over the pavement life), reductions in
emissions, and total financial savings.
Check out the ACPA online
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2nd 2009 Concrete
Technology Forum: Focus on Performance Prediction Eighth
International Conference on the Bearing Capacity of Roads, Railways and
Airfields
Sixth International
Conference on Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Pavements and Technological
Control (MAIREPAV6) GeoHunan
International Conference on Challenges and Recent Advances in Pavement
Technologies and Transportation Geotechnics 9th International
Conference of Chinese Transportation Professionals (ICCTP 2009)
4th International Conference on Modern Technologies in
Highway Engineering XV Argentine
Congress on Road Safety and Traffic 21st
Ninth
International Symposium on Brittle Matrix Composites ( TREMTI 3: 3rd
International Symposium on Stabilization and Recycling International RILEM
Conference on Progress of Recycling in the Built Environment 89th
Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 13th International
Winter Road Congress 1st International
Conference on Pavement Preservation
7th International
Conference on Fracture Mechanics of Concrete and Concrete Structures GeoShanghai 2010 7th
International DUT Workshop on the Design and Performance of Sustainable and
Durable Concrete Pavements 11th International
Symposium on Concrete Roads 10th International
Conference on Low-Volume Roads 24th
If
you wish to submit an announcement and/or link for an upcoming conference,
meeting, or call for papers for the next ISCP e-newsletter, please contact us
at newsletter@concretepavements.org. The
ISCP E-Newsletter is produced by Editor-in-Chief, Amanda Bordelon, Associate Editor,
Dr. Jake Hiller, and Assistant Editors: Cristian Gaedicke, Corey Zollinger,
and Nancy Whiting. Suggestions for
future newsletters are welcomed at newsletter@concretepavements.org.
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