Gudimettla, Crawford, Tanesi, Ardani 1 Effect of Specimen Saturation on the Concrete Coefficient of Thermal 1 Expansion 2 3 4 Jagan M. Gudimettla, P.E. 5 Project Engineer/Manager 6 Federal Highway Administration/Global Consulting 7 Room E73-105C, HIPT-20 8 1200 New Jersey Ave, SE 9 Washington, DC 20590 10 Email: jagan.m.gudimettla.ctr@dot.gov 11 12 Gary L. Crawford 13 Concrete Quality Engineer 14 Federal Highway Administration 15 Room E73-438, HIPT-20 16 1200 New Jersey Ave, SE 17 Washington, DC 20590 18 Email: gary.crawford@dot.gov 19 20 Jussara Tanesi, Ph.D. 21 SES Group and Associates, LLC 22 Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center/FHWA 23 6300 Georgetown Pike - McLean VA 22101 24 PH: 202 493 3485 25 jussara.tanesi.ctr@dot.gov 26 27 Ahmad A. Ardani, P.E. 28 Federal Highway Administration 29 6300 Georgetown Pike 30 McLean, Virginia 22102 31 PH: 202-493-3422 32 ahmad.ardani@dot.gov 33 34 *Corresponding Author 35 Submission date: July 31 st , 2014 36 37 Word Count: Text = 4505, Abstract = 231, Tables = 6, Figures = 5; Total = 7495 38 Number of tables: (6 x 250 = 1500); Number of figures: (5 x 250 = 1250) 39 40 41 Paper Submitted for Presentation and Publication to the 94 th Annual Meeting of the 42 Transportation Research Board 43 44