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Year 12 – Civil Structures - 2016

Michael van Koeverden

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• EA to be your link with the Engineering Profession / Industry

• These forums to provide important networking opportunities with other
teaching professionals
• We want to assist in providing exciting ways of presenting concepts with real
world examples and applications.
• We encourage a link of support with exam assessors
• We would like to make clear the pathways to engineering that exist for all
students- Professional, Trades, VET

• WE AIM TO BE A FACILITATOR IN SUPPORTING YOU

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• Drop box
• Creation of the “ENGINEERING STUDIES RESOURCE CENTRE” on Dropbox.
• Teachers and Engineers Australia to share and communicate useful resources.
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• Engineering Materials - Civil Structure (Pavement)

Eng. Syllabus Areas:
• H1.2- Diff b/w mat
props & selection,
• H2.1- Determine mat
props and uses
• H4.1- Tech changes in
Eng.
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Concrete Slipformed Pavement

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Cast-insitu: Slipformed pavement

concrete
(RMS R82- Subbase Concrete,
RMS R83- Plain Base Concrete)
- Place concrete onto concrete
- Design life long but $ cost high
- Construction quality &
workmanship critical - one
chance only to get right !
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Concrete Property:
Plastic property
•Slump lower for slip formability
•Low bleed water content in mix

Hardened property
•Compressive strength
•Drying Shrinkage
•Durability
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Material Interactions-
•Subgrade- Soil/ clay, gravel, hard-rock etc.
•Subbase- concrete/reinforcing steel
•Base- concrete / reinforcing steel/ fibres

Concrete Structural Properties

•Compressive Strength at 28days
•Cover to reinforcing steel- corrosion
•Construction quality- variable
experience needed
•Repair vs performance- cost $
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Corrosion
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Steel Corrosion in Concrete

• Passivation of steel reinforcement by
high pH of concrete ~ pH=13
• pH >10.5 steel wont rust if steel
completed covered.
• Initiation of corrosion once chloride
limits at the steel reach a high enough
limit
• Propagation is the time taken for
corrosion to extend throughout the
steel
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Problems with materials?

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Sprayed bituminous Sealing Asphalt

Aggregate Surface
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Sprayed bituminous Sealing Aggregate Surface

- Cheapest road surfacing but shortest design life
~ 3 – 7 years

Asphalt -
more expensive -design life ~7 – 15 years

Concrete Pavement
- Dearest with design life ~ 40 – 100years
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History / Technological change:
Testing and
understanding of
stone property - Basic

Understand limits in
tensile capacity of
materials so design uses
high comp. strength of
mat.
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NATA

• Most National, State and

Territory Governments and
regulators require construction
material products be tested and
reported by a NATA accredited
laboratory to a set standard(s)

What is NATA ?
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NATA
• 1945 NATA was formed at a
conference of all State and
Federal governments. A world’s
• The new NATA body was to
provide a national testing service
first !
to Australia and would span all
technical, industry, chemical,
medical and geographical areas
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NATA

• 3000 NATA facilities

• 50 other countries use NATA’s expertise
• 175 NATA Employees
• 3000 Volunteer NATA Technical experts
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Test Standards
• Contractor Standards

ASTM- USA EN/CEN-Europe ISO- International

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C C T

Testing/understanding- conventional steel reinforcing only span so far.

Pre-tensioning/Post-tensioning- can significantly increase spans
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Pre-tensioned Concrete
• Cables tensioned
• Concrete cast onto cables and sticks.
• At transfer cables cut and concrete placed in
compression
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Post-tensioned Concrete
• Cables in ducts not tensioned
• Concrete cast onto ducts
• Cables stressed and compression provided by barrel /wedge
• Ducts grouted to protect cables long-term
• Concrete placed in compression some time after casting.
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Material property:
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Communications (DS/MVK)
• All communications must be: Clear, Factual & Concise
• Verbal/oral – clear instructions (recorded somewhere)
• Written – reports- do not embellish or make claims.
• Implied- professional service – duty of care to public.
• As professional you can be sued for any of above.
• PI insurance premiums are based on above depending on
the insurers view of your perceived risk to others.
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Communications (DS/MVK)
• Expert Witness work- will be cross-examined in court to explain
your opinion expressed by you.
• Need to confirm on what your opinion was based
• Must act on most recent knowledge at time of your report writing.
• But still have a duty of care to public.
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• Discussion
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