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15th March 2019
Newell Highway Upgrade Project
Proposed Foamed Bitumen Stabilisation
This investigation was for a 28 km stretch of Newell Highway that is a single lane in each direction. It has the highest heavy vehicle traffic in NSW and is an annual flood risk. Foamed bitumen is a mixture of air, water and bitumen. Once a foaming agent is mixed, it expands about 15 times, it has a...
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17th December 2018
Geotechnical Design and Construction Aspects of the M80 Bridges Across Moonee Ponds Creek In Melbourne
This paper describes the design of embankments and piled foundations for new bridges across Moonee Ponds Creek as part of the Melbourne M80 Upgrade Project. The bridges are part of the eastbound duplication and consist of 7 spans (main carriageway) and 8 spans (auxiliary exit). The maximum approach embankment height relative to the existing ground surface levels is 17 m, which is up to 6.5 m highe...
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11th December 2018
Port Kembla Inner Harbour Expansion
This paper discusses the geotechnical aspects of a proposed expansion of the Port Kembla Inner Harbour to accommodate container and vehicle storage. The site is underlain by a variable sequence of uncontrolled filling and estuarine/marine sediments that posed a challenge for design and construction....
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10th December 2018
Case Studies of Filling Movements under Buildings
Three case studies of filling works are reviewed. In the first case, a deep quarry was backfilled with a combination of clays, ripped shale and ripped sandstone under controlled conditions. Settlement monitoring was carried out over a period of two years to measure the consolidation of the filling. The settlement results are presented and interpolation carried out to estimate the long term settlem...
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26th November 2018
CityLink Tullamarine Widening
Bulla Road Bridge North Abutment Geotechnical Design and Construction Performance of Abutment Modification
Peter Chan, Associate Geotechnical Engineer, and Michael Broise, Principal, both from Douglas Partners' Melbourne office, co-authored this paper which was presented by Peter at the AGS Victorian Symposium 2018 “Geotechnics and Transport Infrastructure”.
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