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Webinar: Assessing Waste Material in Road Surfacings
Governments, transport agencies, and industry have identified the need to reduce waste going to landfill and increase the use of recycled materials to achieve more sustainable development and improve outcomes for communities. The latest update to…
Guide to Pavement Technology Part 4E: Recycled Materials
Guide to Pavement Technology Part 4E: Recycled Materials presents the latest information about products manufactured from recycling various waste materials accepted through registered recycling and reprocessing facilities. This includes the…
Assessing Fitness to Drive: Implementation Strategy 2022
This report describes the proposed Strategy for implementation of Assessing Fitness to Drive for consideration by the Austroads Board. It has been developed based on the Implementation Framework endorsed by the Austroads Board in 2021, together with…
Assessing fitness to drive for commercial and private vehicle drivers
Driving a motor vehicle is a complex task involving perception, appropriate judgement, adequate response time and appropriate physical capability. A range of medical conditions, disabilities and treatments may influence these driving prerequisites.…
Technical Basis of Austroads Guide to Pavement Technology Part 4E: Recycled Materials
The purpose of this literature review is to assess the current body of research for the incorporation of recycled material in pavements to inform updated guidance to the current Austroads Guide to Pavement Technology Part 4E: Recycled Materials. New…
Webinar: Increasing the Use of Recycled Glass in Road Infrastructure
This webinar, presented by Dr James Grenfell and Dr Didier Bodin, focuses on the development of a specification on the supply of recycled crushed glass sand as part of a project to support increased use of recycled crushed glass (RCG) in road…
Crushing, Processing and Cleaning of Recycled Crushed Glass for Transport Infrastructure
The purpose of this guideline is to provide potential recyclers with the information they need to gain a better understanding of how recycled crushed glass (RCG) should be processed to make it fit-for-purpose for infrastructure applications. This…
Development of a Specification for Recycled Crushed Glass as a Sand Aggregate Replacement
This report presents the technical basis for the development of the Austroads technical specification and guideline for the use of recycled glass in bedding, backfilling material, concrete, road drainage, embankment fill, and landscaping…
Construction of a 50 Metre Long Ultra High Performance Ductile Concrete
One of the most significant breakthrough developments in concrete technology at the end of the 20th century was that of ultra-high performance ‘ductile’ concrete (UHPdC) with compressive strength up to 200 MPa and remarkable improvements in…
ABC-MHB004-11
  • ABC-MHB004-11
  • 31 Oct 2011
  • Bridges
Reinforced concrete made its way into road bridges at the start of the twentieth century after being invented by Joseph Monier in 1875. By 1950 reinforced concrete was dominant for small and medium spans and vying with steel for longer spans. Their…