Framework for a cost-effective geohazard assessment. Framework for a cost-effective geohazard assessment. This project aims to develop and validate a new, robust and cost-effective method for geotechnical hazard assessment of rock slopes. Each year in Australia, millions of dollars are spent on stabilising unstable slopes and mitigation measures to control the associated risk and avoid severe financial impacts. The proposed framework will combine a new qualitative approach for geotechnical hazar ....Framework for a cost-effective geohazard assessment. Framework for a cost-effective geohazard assessment. This project aims to develop and validate a new, robust and cost-effective method for geotechnical hazard assessment of rock slopes. Each year in Australia, millions of dollars are spent on stabilising unstable slopes and mitigation measures to control the associated risk and avoid severe financial impacts. The proposed framework will combine a new qualitative approach for geotechnical hazard assessment with accurate, efficient geo-structural surveys achieved with emerging surveying technologies. Stochastic components of slope geostructural description should minimise the surveying operations. This project is expected to reduce the cost and time of surveying geostructural features of slopes and designing mitigation measures.Read moreRead less
Motorway management system integrating safety, efficiency & sustainability. This project aims to develop a motorway management system that holistically optimises motorway safety, efficiency, and sustainability via intervening the traffic flow dynamics. In the current practice of motorway traffic flow management, safety, efficiency, and sustainability are fundamentally connected but separately managed as they are modeled by distinct methodologies. The new system is based on a proposed traffic flo ....Motorway management system integrating safety, efficiency & sustainability. This project aims to develop a motorway management system that holistically optimises motorway safety, efficiency, and sustainability via intervening the traffic flow dynamics. In the current practice of motorway traffic flow management, safety, efficiency, and sustainability are fundamentally connected but separately managed as they are modeled by distinct methodologies. The new system is based on a proposed traffic flow theory which includes a microscopic model for safety analysis and a derived macroscopic model for efficiency and sustainability analysis. This theory can be used to resolve the above-mentioned long unsettled challenge and significantly improve our motorway performance.Read moreRead less
Time-dependent behaviour of precast concrete sandwich panels. This project seeks to improve understanding of the long-term structural behaviour of precast concrete sandwich panels and thus facilitate their use in civil engineering applications. These panels offer many advantages over traditional concrete panels mainly due to their excellent thermal insulation and their use in civil and industrial engineering applications is expanding. Nevertheless, the literature reveals a lack of confidence in ....Time-dependent behaviour of precast concrete sandwich panels. This project seeks to improve understanding of the long-term structural behaviour of precast concrete sandwich panels and thus facilitate their use in civil engineering applications. These panels offer many advantages over traditional concrete panels mainly due to their excellent thermal insulation and their use in civil and industrial engineering applications is expanding. Nevertheless, the literature reveals a lack of confidence in their design due to the absence of reliable numerical models and test data of their long-term structural behaviour. This project aims to provide insight into the nonlinear long-term behaviour of such panels by developing new theoretical models that will be validated by laboratory testing.Read moreRead less