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Hi, today I am going to share my last conference experience the RAR2018- Rubberized Asphalt/ Asphalt Rubber , held in South Africa and organised by CONSULPAV. Before to starting I would like to make just a consideration about that. In my opinion there are two meaningful reasons to attending a conference. First, it is a really good opportunity to meet the scientific community, get contacts, feedback about my work and get an update about the state of art. Second but not in importance, at least for me, it is a good chance to visit new places, cultures and people that otherwise would be difficult to visit/meet. In this case it was amazing..South Africa!   Back to the RAR2018, the conference focus on any and all rubberized asphalt materials containing scrap tire rubber, from a low percentage such as 5 percent to higher percentages above even 20 percent. Since there have been so many recent significant changes in the testing, specifying and application of
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Hello there, I'm Gaspare Giancontieri Marie Sklodowska-Curie research fellow at the University of Palermo. Before to explain more about my research I am going to introduce myself, just a bit. I have a mechanical engineering background, however in the last years I developed a deep interest in computational fluid dynamic modelling and rheology, that is a branch of physics that deals with the deformation and flow of matter, especially the non-Newtonian flow of liquids and the plastic flow of solids.   I started my journey around the Europe years ago at the University of Nottingham, where I carried out my MSc dissertation. During that experience I was able to optimise the laboratory equipment to make more realistic viscosity measurements of modified bitumen through experimental and numerical techniques. Then, thanks different research projects and a working environment full of international experts I had the luck to kept working on this field that I really enjoy. 
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