First of all, I would like to express my full recognition, admiration, and gratitude to my supervising professor, Dr. Juan Gallego Medina, for his guidance, support, patience, confidence, training, mentoring, coaching and also for helping me to make this dream come true throughout this great journey called Life. I would also like to express my deepest gratitude to Sacyr Construcción for the technical support received during the development of this Ph.D. thesis at the Technical University of Madrid., since this doctoral dissertation would not have been possible without the tremendous help, support and knowhow received in my research stage in this company. Additionally, I simply have no words to express my acknowledgment to all of those organizations and people who, directly or indirectly, have been able to share their valuable knowledge, information, economic resources, and priceless time. I would also like to thank all my colleagues of the asphalt pavement materials' research group, who supported and assisted me every single day in the laboratory work. Last but not least, I would like to thank my parents because this dissertation could not have been completed without their tremendous help, support, love, and encouragement. Thank you, Dad, for your continuous encouragement, support, and also for helping me to sharpen my life. Also, I would like to recognize the honorable doctoral committee for their invaluable assistance, effort, time, comments, and feedback given to me to complete this doctoral dissertation successfully.
