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Acknowledgments

his book would not be possible without the help, support,
and patience of Larry Hager, senior editor, McGraw-Hill
TProfessional. The author would like to thank McGraw-Hill
Professional and the editorial staff for their support of this publication.
The cooperation and hard work of Somya Rustagi and Vastavikta
Sharma, project managers, Glyph International, and their colleagues
are acknowledged. The author would like to acknowledge the contri-
butions of his current and former students at Michigan State Univer-
sity and The University of Texas at Arlington. The efforts of Abhay
Jain, CUIRE research assistant, who spent many long hours coordi-
nating the review process and preparing the manuscript, are appre-
ciated. The author would like to acknowledge the support and
contributions of the board members of the Center for Underground
Infrastructure Research and Education (www.cuire.org) and his
colleagues in the Department of Civil Engineering at The University
of Texas at Arlington.
The author is indebted to many contributors and reviewers,
whose names follow, for helping to complete this book.

Contributors
Alan Atalah, Bowling Green State University (portions of Chap. 5)
Grady Bell, Laney Directional Drilling Co. (Fig. 5.1)
Ralph Carpenter, American Ductile Iron Pipe Co. (portions of
Chap. 4)
Mark Dionise, Michigan Department of Transportation (portions
of Chap. 8)
Mustafa Kanchwala, CUIRE (portions of Chap. 3)
Trupti Kulkarni, CUIRE (portions of Chap. 3)
Rich Maxwell, StraightLine (portions of Chap. 9)
Terry McArthur, HDR Engineering, Inc. (portions of Chap. 9)
Lynn Osborn, Insituform Technologies (Secs. 2.7 and 2.8)
Alhad Panwalkar, Jacobs Associates (portions of Chap. 4)
Plastics Pipe Institute (PPI) (portions of Chap. 6)

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