Looking for a solution to Alaska’s road rut problem

Outside of the Consortium Library on the University of Alaska Anchorage campus is a concrete slab 8 feet wide and 20 feet long. It looks like your average sidewalk, but it could potentially hold the key to solving a perennial Alaska transportation problem: road ruts. For the past 15 years -- and the past eight in Alaska -- UAA professor of civil engineering Osama Abaza has been developing a road surface that can stand up to Alaska’s road-rut problem. The concrete slab at UAA is the first practical test of