ABSTRACT
As a main degradation factor, most transportation agencies have shown interest in controlling and/or mitigating moisture damage for the last 20 years. However, it has been only in the last decade that the fundamentals of this phenomenon have been explored through several research efforts. Many of these efforts include the application of concepts and experimental and modeling techniques that had been already used for several decades to study the properties and response of unsaturated soils. Caro et al. (2008a, b) present a detailed explanation of the advancements provided in the literature on this topic.
