EFFECT OF CRACK-REDUCING TECHNOLOGIES AND SUPPLEMENTARY CEMENTITIOUS MATERIALS ON SETTLEMENT CRACKING OF PLASTIC CONCRETE AND DURABILITY PERFORMANCE OF HARDENED CONCRETE BY Eman Ibrahim Submitted to the graduate degree program in Civil Engineering and the Graduate Faculty of the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. ________________________________ Dr. David Darwin, Chair _______________________________ Dr. Matt O’Reilly ________________________________ Dr. Andres Lepage ________________________________ Dr. Remy Lequesne ________________________________ Dr. Reza Barati Date Defended: September 6 th , 2019