Publications

This paper will give a brief history of our concrete technology and concrete durability journey within TMR QLD over the last 20 years together with our present position and issues, and where we see some of our future challenges and development.…

The potential benefits of using structural health monitoring systems in measuring and recording bridge data have been established in many applications around the world, but the efficiency and effectiveness of such systems depends on how they are…

Asset owners are interested in the use of durable concrete to maximize design life of their structures and minimize Whole of Life Cost (WOLC) throughout. Similarly, most assets owners nowadays also require their assets to be sustainable and…

State Highway 2 Wairoa River Bridge near Tauranga, constructed in 1966, is a 177m long post-tensioned concrete structure with mono pier columns supported on pile foundations. Adding a lightweight downstream cycleway extension in September 2020 has…

Outputs from bridge assessment to AS 5100.7 are deterministic, expressing safety as a subjective and conservative binary (yes/no) measure. With Australia and New Zealand seeing increases of road freight demand under finite bridge infrastructure…

Evidence gathered on some Queensland bridges has raised questions about what heavy vehicles are really doing to bridges. Visual evidence includes the deterioration of concrete bridge decks, headstock cracking, fatigue cracking, settlement of bridge…

The utlisation of glass fibre reinforced polymer (GFRP) materials in civil/structural applications have exponentially increased in the last few years. The increased use of GFRP was in both forms as in new structures, and repairing/retrofitting…

Transport for New South Wales, (TfNSW) receives thousands of requests every year to allow Higher Productivity Vehicles (HPV), high risk mobile cranes and heavy load platforms to access NSW aging road and bridge network. The HPV's access requests in…

The new Southern concourse bridge in Redfern Station will provide accessible access to all above ground platforms within the station. Redfern is one of the busiest passenger stations on the Sydney Trains network and contains more active above ground…

Since 2018, the Victorian Department of Transport (DoT) has been on a journey to improve the asset management practices of Structures under their control by developing the Structures Service Framework (SSF). The SSF defines governance, roles and…