Program

Each lecturer has 55 minutes for his talk, which will be followed by a brief period for discussion and by a break for coffee, tea, etc.

Abstracts of the lectures can be found here.

Program and lecture abstracts can be also downloaded in PDF format here .

Monday September 25, 2006
09:00 - 09:10 Josef Malek - Introductory remarks
09:10 - 09:55 K.R. Rajagopal (Lecture I: Overview of the theme of the workshop)
10:10 - 11:05 Ian F. Collins (Lecture I: Basic properties of soils)
11:20 - 12:15 J. Murali Krishnan (Lecture I: The physical and chemical structure of asphalt: with a brief history of their usage and availability)
12:30 - 15:00 break for lunch
15:00 - 15:55 Ian F. Collins (Lecture II: Extant models of clays and sands)
16:10 - 17:05 J. Murali Krishnan (Lecture II: The mechanical behavior of asphalt)
17:20 - 18:15 Barry Bernstein (Lecture I: A thermodynamic theory of finite viscoelastic strain)
 
Tuesday September 26, 2006
09:00 - 09:55 J. Murali Krishnan (Lecture III: Some of the open issues in modeling asphalt)
10:10 - 11:05 Barry Bernstein (Lecture II: A thermodynamic theory of plasticity and of hypoelasticity)
11:20 - 12:15 Eyad Masad (Lecture I: Modeling and Experimental Measurements of Water Transport in Asphalt Mixes Using X-ray Computed Tomography Images - part one)
12:30 - 15:00 break for lunch
15:00 - 15:55 Ian F. Collins (Lecture III: Thermomechanical models)
16:10 - 17:05 Eyad Masad (Lecture I: Modeling and Experimental Measurements of Water Transport in Asphalt Mixes Using X-ray Computed Tomography Images - part two)
17:20 - 18:15 K.R. Rajagopal (Lecture II: A general thermodynamic framework for the study of materials undergoing entropy producing processes)
 
Wednesday September 27, 2006
09:00 - 09:55 Eyad Masad (Lecture III: Damage and Anisotropic Viscoelastic--Viscoplastic Model for Hot Mix Asphalt)
10:10 - 11:05 Barry Bernstein and Ecevit Bilgili (Lecture III: Heat generation and pulverizing rubber)
11:20 - 12:15 R.G. Robinson (Lecture I: Interfacial friction between soils and solid surfaces)
12:30 - 15:00 break for lunch
15:00 - 15:55 R.G. Robinson (Lecture II: Consolidation of lumpy fill--an experimental investigation)
16:10 - 17:05 K.R. Rajagopal (Lecture III: Mechanics of Liquefaction)
17:20 - 18:15 Discussions