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Federal Highway Administration Research and Technology
Coordinating, Developing, and Delivering Highway Transportation Innovations
| Project Information | ||
| Project ID: | FHWA-PROJ-08-0003 | |
| Project Name: | High-Performance, Stress-Relaxing Cementitious Composites for Crack-Free Pavements and Transportation Structures | |
| Project Status: | Completed | |
| Start Date: | February 20, 2008 | |
| End Date: | March 31, 2012 | |
| Contact Information | ||
| Last Name: | Meininger | |
| First Name: | Richard C (Rick) | |
| Telephone: | 202-493-3191 | |
| E-mail: | richard.meininger@dot.gov | |
| Office: | Office of Infrastructure Research and Development | |
| Team: | Pavement Materials Team [HRDI-10] | |
| Program: | Exploratory Advanced Research | |
| Laboratory: | Concrete Laboratory | |
| Project detail | ||
| Roadmap/Focus area(s): | Infrastructure Research and Technology Strategic Plan and Roadmap | |
| Project Description: | The project proposes to use nanotechnology to introduce engineered inclusions in cement to relieve tensile stresses and thereby reduce cracking in concrete. | |
| Goals: | The key project objective is to increase understanding of and ability to improve properties of infrastructure materials. | |
| Background Information: | This project is a response to the Exploratory Advanced Research Program broad agency announcement in the highway infrastructure focus area. | |
| More Information URL(s): | ||
| Product Type: | Article Research report Software Techbrief | |
| Test Methodology: | Laboratory and field testing | |
| Partners: | Federal Highway Administration: Office of Research, Development, and Technology - Office of Infrastructure Research and Development; Role(s): Technical, Advisory | |
| Expected Benefits: | To improve the properties of infrastructure materials. | |
| Deliverables: | 1. Name: Report and presentations. Product Type(s): Research report, Techbrief, Article Description: The product includes a report and presentations, a TechBrief, and technical notes given to the Federal Highway Administration and papers presented at technical conferences on materials science. 2. Name: Final report. Product Type(s): Research report Description: The product is a final written report. 3. Name: Software to quantify the distribution of a material in a mixture. Product Type(s): Research report, Software Description: Software was developed and provided to Federal Highway Administration that provides a method to quantify and describe the degree of distribution of fibers in cement paste, mortar, concrete, or any other material. More information can be found in the following journal:Journal of NanomaterialsVolume 2012 (2012), Article ID 371927, 8 pagesdoi:10.1155/2012/371927Research Article Challenges and Benefits of Utilizing Carbon Nanofilaments in Cementitious MaterialsArdavan Yazdanbakhsh, Zachary Grasley, Bryan Tyson, and Rashid Abu Al-Rub Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, Texas A and M University, CE/TTI 503-C, 3136 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-3136, USA. PRODUCTION, CHARACTERIZATION, AND MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF CEMENTITIOUS MATERIALS INCORPORATING CARBON NANOFIBERS, A Dissertation, by ARDAVAN YAZDANBAKHSHSubmitted -- http://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/bitstream/handle/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-08-11549/YAZDANBAKHSH-DISSERTATION.pdf | |
| Related URL(s): | http://wwwcf.fhwa.dot.gov/exit.cfm?link=http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jnm/2012/371927/ http://wwwcf.fhwa.dot.gov/exit.cfm?link=http://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/bitstream/handle/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-08-11549/YAZDANBAKHSH-DISSERTATION.pdf |
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| FHWA Topics: | Roads and Bridges--Design | |
| TRT Terms: | Cracking Infrastructure Materials Cement Research Pavements Highways |
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| FHWA Disciplines: | Pavement and Materials |
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| Subject Areas: | Bridges and other structures Pavements |
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