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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The principal author is thankful to various individuals for their assistance and
involvement during the completion of the report. First, thanks are due to the members of
the Study Advisory Committee (SAC): Tommy Nantung, Dave Andrewski, and Kurt
Sommer from the Indiana Department of Transportation; Gerald Huber from Heritage
Research; Lee Gallivan from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Indiana
Division; Lloyd Bandy from the Asphalt Pavement Association of Indiana; John
Haddock from Purdue University; and Dudley Bonte from Rieth-Riley Construction.
A sincere appreciation goes to Robert “Buzz” Powell, manager of the NCAT
Test Track at Opelika, Alabama, and to David H. Timm from Auburn University for
their collaboration and cooperation in developing the instrumentation installation
procedures and for sharing the response data recorded at the Track.
Special thanks are owed to Tom Robertson and Calvin Reck from Purdue
University for their collaboration in all aspects of the APT experiment starting with
construction and instrumentation, and ending with loading and data collection.
I would like to take this opportunity and also thank Terhi Pellinen, the original
Principal Investigator (PI) of this project along with her research assistants Jose Llenín
and Greg Webster who jointly designed and overlooked the APT experiments and left
me with well organized notes and photographs to work with.
Last but not least, and on a more personal level, would like to thank the people
of the North Central Superpave Center (NCSC), especially: Jan Olek, Becky McDaniel,
and Ayesha Shah, for inviting me to join the NCSC ‘family’, for giving me the
opportunity to work on this project, and for placing their trust in me to see it through to
completion.