The March 2016 edition of the NC2 E-News, the newsletter of the Long-Term Plan for Concrete Pavement Research and Technology, is now online. This issue includes briefs titled Moving Advancements into Practice with the topic on recycled concrete aggregate in concrete mixtures and discusses production methods, uses, benefits and properties. 

Other topics include:

•Results of a survey on rates of application of curing compounds on concrete pavements;

•A state pooled fund study examining the primary causes of drying shrinkage of concrete;

•The influence of mixing time on fresh and hardened concrete characteristics in a study conducted by Oregon State University;

•A Florida DOT study on the use on internally cured concrete, and

•MIT research on the vehicle-pavement interaction impacting fuel consumption.