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Publication Number: FHWA-HRT-06-078
Date: June 2006

Job Site Evaluation of Corrosion Resistant Alloys

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The author would like to thank the engineers of the many State departments of transportation who cooperated in both time and effort with this study. Their names are too numerous to mentioned here but are listed as the State contact in table 1 and in appendixes A–H.

References

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