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Acknowledgments

I want to take this moment to thank Dr. James Lai and Dr. David Frost, my former advisors, who have
always inspired me to work innovatively. I would like to acknowledge my former and current gradu-
ate students and research associates for their contributions: Cristian Druta, Yanrong Fu, Yang Lu,
Chris Harris, Xue Li, Tongyan Pan, Jin-Young Park, Wenjuan Sun, Dong Wang, Yongping Wang, Bing
Zhang, Guoqing Zhou, and Yu Zhou. The support by the National Science Foundation, the Innova-
tions Deserving Exploratory Analysis of the National Cooperative Highway Research Program, the
Louisiana Transportation Research Center, and the Federal Highway Administration Turner-Fair-
bank Research Center is also acknowledged. I also would like to acknowledge many of my colleagues
for the courtesy provision of some of the figures and equations. I would especially acknowledge Dr.
Xingran Wang for his contribution to the interface model and the implicit implementation sections.
Ms. Katie Thacker has provided professional editing, which is sincerely acknowledged. Last but not
least, I am grateful to Larry Hager at McGraw-Hill, Virginia Howe and Roger D. Woodson at Lone
Wolf, Ent. for their encouragement, support and patient work that finally made the book, and to all
those who have helped me.
This book is dedicated to my parents, my wife Yan, and my sons George and Charlie, whose
love has always inspired me and given me the strength to work hard.
—Linbing Wang

The author would also like to express his sincere thanks to the publishers of the following
journals for their permissions to re-use contents in some papers published there. The co-authors of
these papers are also sincerely acknowledged for their original efforts.
Computers and Geotechnics, Elsevier
Geotechnical Special Publication, American Society of Civil Engineers
International Journal of Geomechanics, American Society of Civil Engineers
International Journal of Pavements, Taylor & Francis
International Journal of Pavement Engineering, Taylor & Francis
International Journal of Pavement Research and Technology, Chinese Society of
Pavement Engineering
Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers
Journal of Construction and Building Materials, Elsevier
Journal of Engineering Mechanics, American Society of Civil Engineers
Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers
Journal of Mechanics of Materials, Elsevier
Journal of Road Materials and Pavement Design, Lavoisier SAS
Transportation Research Record, Transportation Research Board

About the Author
Linbing Wang, Ph.D., P.E., is a leading researcher on asphalt mechanics, the coeditor of four proceed-
ings, and the author of many papers on asphalt concrete. He is a member of several National Coop-
erative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Project Panels and the Federal Highway Administra-
tion (FHWA) Expert Task Group on Fundamental Properties and Advanced Modeling of Asphalt.

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