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Realising 100-year Design Life of Bridge Structures in an Aggressive Environment: Experimental Work

This report summarises the results of experiments undertaken to understand the practices required to enable a 100-year design life of bridges in an aggressive environment.

The experimental work was informed by an extensive literature review and…

Realising 100-year Bridge Design Life in an Aggressive Environment: Review of the Literature

This report details a literature review on durability issues that affect the service life of reinforced concrete structures.

The review focused on information from sources within Australia and overseas, including published literature, standards,…

Permeability of Sprayed Seals: Literature Review

This report describes a literature review on the permeability of sprayed seal surfacings. This review work was conducted to explore the permeability limits of sprayed seal surfacings, and to determine the influencing factors which allow seals to…

Selection and Design of Initial Treatments for Sprayed Seal Surfacings

This document is an update of the design of initial treatments for sprayed seal surfacing.

The information contained within this document supersedes that found in Austroads AP-T68-06 Update of the Austroads Sprayed Seal Design Method, and replaces…

Effect of Heavy Vehicle Traffic in Sprayed Seal Design

The principal aim of this work was to examine the effect of heavy vehicle loading on sprayed seals, in order to incorporate such loading impacts into the Austroads sprayed seal design method.

The current sprayed seal design method uses an equivalent…

Guidelines for Bridge Management: Structure Information
This document is the combined output of two projects commissioned by Austroads to support improved consistency in Australia and New Zealand in inventory and condition data for road bridges, by developing a minimum set of inventory items, condition…
Concrete Durability: Development of Models to Predict and extend the Service Life of Concrete Bridges
Concrete durability is of great interest to State Road Authorities (SRA's), who are responsible for over 8,000 concrete bridges and in excess of 16,000 major culverts, with a replacement value exceeding $8.5 billion. Many of these concrete…
Sprayed Sealing: Volume Binder Correction
This Pavement Work Tip provides a guide to calculate the volume of liquid bituminous binders relative to a standard temperature of 15°C.
Sprayed Seal Design 2003/04: Summary
The report summarises the activity in the Austroads sprayed seal design project for 2003/2004. Austroads member authorities were surveyed to determine if there were further issues with sprayed seal design that needed resolution. Recommendations for…