INDIANAPOLIS On the east side of Indianapolis on Shortridge Road, sits INDOTs Division of Materials and Tests.

Inside this 60,000-square-foot facility, technicians and engineers analyze the materials that go into our roads.

We test materials that are used in highway construction, aggregates, asphalt, concrete, soil, steel, anything you can think of thats used in roads and bridges, said Matt Beeson, director at INDOTs Division of Materials and Tests.

WRTV Investigates Kara Kenney asked INDOT to go inside the lab following her investigation, Concrete Cracking, which uncovered problems with concrete pavement in roads and bridges across the state of Indiana.

We are seeing issues with performance and durability, some premature wear, scaling on some of these concrete structures, said Natalie

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