Publications

The 2.5km long West Gate Bridge comprises an eastern and western concrete approach viaduct, 871m and 670m respectively in length either side of the 850 m long cable stayed steel box girder main span section. The key objective with the West Gate…

Fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) composites are commonly used in the aerospace and marine industries. Due to their inherent advantages, FRP composites are increasingly making their way into civil engineering applications. In the field of bridge…

At 2582.6 m in length, Melbourne's West Gate Bridge is the second longest bridge in Australia. Completed in 1978, the bridge comprises a cable-stayed steel box girder, with two end concrete sections of similar design. Due to Melbourne&rsquo

This publication reviews current methodologies for estimating vehicle operating costs (VOC). Recent Austroads work (TP1349) highlighted the need to improve the VOC-road roughness relationship. This report achieves this by conducting a literature…

The purpose of this report is to provide an overview of the Pavement Maintenance database creation, including documenting the cleaning and filtering of the results. The analysis was performed on SA, VIC, NSW and QLD datasets to identify…

This report provides a review of research and developments in skid resistance measurement methods. The objective is to provide up-to-date information on the major issues (e.g. variability) involved in skid resistance measurement.

This report…

The National Transport Commission (NTC) and Austroads are developing Performance Based Standards (PBS) which will augment prescriptive regulations for heavy vehicle mass, dimensions and configuration.

Current skid resistance monitoring programs and investigatory limits used in Australia were based on systems developed in the UK where the climate, traffic intensity and network configuration are very different. These do not necessarily suit…

There is a need to develop models to predict the horizontal forces applied by all combination vehicles with axle masses above the current allowances to assist in the prediction of the resulting pavement surface wear.

The impact of heavy vehicles on…

The impact of heavy vehicles on pavement surfacings needs to be quantified over typical surfacing lifecycles. Failure modes of surfacings are often horizontal shear-stress induced rather than vertical load