Fracture behavior of concrete materials for rigid pavement systems

I would like to thank my adviser, Professor Jeffery Roesler for his guidance and aid throughout my graduate studies. Also I would like to thank the graduate students Cristian Gaedicke, Kyoungsoo Park, Victor Cervantes, and Matthew Beyer for their assistance in various projects for this report. Also I would like to thank the undergraduate student Amruta Mate testing some fiber-reinforced concrete specimens in the summer of 2007. I also thank Klaus-Alexander Rieder from W. R. Grace for providing data for different types of fiber-reinforced concrete from 2002. I would like to thank Gregory Banas for his aid and training on the various testing methods used in my graduate research. I thank the National Highway Institute Universities and Grants Program and the Illinois Chapter of the American Concrete Pavement Association for the fellowships I have received during the course of my graduate studies. I also thank the Illinois Department of Transportation for funding the ultra-thin whitetopping research project.