Publications

Guide to Bridge Technology Part 8 provides a guideline for issues related to the waterway design of bridges. It covers various topics such as design flood standards and estimation methods, general considerations in waterway design and design…

Part 7 discusses the structural management and maintenance of existing bridges in practical technical terms including the procedures for bridges at the network level of management and at the project level of management for individual bridges. It…

Guide to Pavement Technology Part 3 addresses the selection of the most appropriate pavement surfacing. The Guide identifies the significant factors that need to be considered in the selection of the most appropriate surfacing, their inter-…

This Guide has been prepared as part of the Austroads Guide to Pavement Technology to provide an introduction to the nature of asphalt as a material and its application in road pavements. Further publications in this Guide provide supporting detail…

This technical note provides an overview of the use of stone mastic asphalt in Australia.

This technical note provides guidance on the use of ultra thin asphalt surfacings which are typically placed with a minimum thickness of around 12-15 mm, or about half the thickness of similar sized conventional asphalt wearing course mixes.

This technical note reports on tests relating to the use of recycled crumb rubber in asphalt.

This technical note provides guidance on the the use of non-structural asphalt surfacing and overlays. It includes treatments of existing surfaces, non-structural design mix and the compaction of overlays.