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Title:
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Pavement Mechanics and Simulation 

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Organizers:
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William G. Buttlar
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
205 North Mathews Ave, MC-250
Urbana, IL  61801
Phone (217) 333-5966
Fax (217) 333-1924
Email: buttlar@uiuc.edu

John E. Bolander
University of California, Davis
One Shields Ave.
Davis, CA 95616  USA
Phone (530) 752-8226
Fax (530) 752-7872
Email: jebolander@ucdavis.edu

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Minisymposium description:
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This mini symposium will present newly developed computational mechanics-based methods for 
simulating the deterioration mechanisms of highway and airfield pavements.  Abstracts and 
presentations outlining scholarly work involving the simulation of one or more key pavement 
deterioration mechanisms (e.g. fracture, fatigue, permanent deformation) using structural-scale, 
micromechanical (including those that directly consider material heterogeneity/morphology), 
multi-scale and/or multi-physics models are particularly sought.  Pavement components of 
interest include: asphalt concrete, Portland cement concrete, alternative binder concretes, 
granular bases and subbases, and subgrades.  Various simulation approaches are welcome, 
including those based on finite element, discrete element, boundary element, displacement 
discontinuity, and/or lattice methods.