Publications

A new steel/concrete composite girder was proposed and applied to continuous girder bridges. The area surrounded by the upper and lower flanges and the web are filled with concrete (CFIG: Concrete filled I-section Girder) at the intermediate support.…

The span length and general size of bridges across the Queensland road Network have increased substantially in recent years. This has led to the development of larger girder section sizes, along with the requirement to provide increased amounts of…

The new AS 5100.5 Concrete has been heavily revised since its last issue in 2004.

The current bridge design code, AS5100.5-2004, adopts concrete strength grades between 25MPa and 65MPa. The upper limit of 65MPa was an increase from 50MPa in the Austroads Bridge Design Code, 1992. Before that, the NAASRA Bridge Design…

The paper describes the development, design and construction aspects of a completely new precast, prestressed concrete girder for road bridges.

This article discusses the 375m long incrementally launched bridges over the Usuthu River using reinforced concrete, with no pre-stressing, to carry the construction stage loads.

Mainmark are introducing the STRAAM system of full scale structural integrity assessment and continuous monitoring for Bridges into Australia and New Zealand. Advances in measuring extremely low amplitude vibrations combined with methods for…

All reinforced concrete structures deteriorate over time. Corrosion of reinforcement is a major challenge to the durability of concrete structures. Corrosion in certain environments, such as marine, can compromise the durability of concrete and…

Capacity reduction factors (?) for flexure, shear and axial loadings are derived for reinforced and prestressed concrete structures based on a reliability-based calibration of the Australian Concrete Structures Standard AS3600. The structural…

Corrosion of steel is regarded as one of the most important issues for the durability of reinforced concrete (RC) structures, as corrosion can induce the serviceability decrease, bond strength dropping, steel properties reduction, and longitudinal…