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CIA Vol 34 Issue 4 Volume 34 Issue 4

Included in this issue:
  • News
    – Ian Booth leaves a strengthened and expanded Institute
    – Preparations for Concrete 09 well advanced
    – New Life and Honorary members elected
    – Andrew Hall: SA Branch's new president
    – Diamonds 2008 – CSDAA's annual magazine
  • Projects
    – Brisbane's Gateway Upgrade Project
    – Precast panels for bridge abutment
    – Gold Coast dam upgrade
  • Technical
    – Test methods for assessing durability
    – Progressive collapse and earthquake resistance
    – Analysis of the strut-and-tie section of draft code DR05252 (AS3600)


  • CIA Vol 34 Issue 3 Volume 34 Issue 3

    Included in this issue:
  • News
    – Render finishes recommended practice
    – Brisbane Square case study
    – Propex expands in Australia
    – Dick Kell joins Monkey Steel board
    – South Australia's annual concrete canoe race
  • Projects
    – New Zealand's largest post-tensioned slab
    – Concrete icon at WA's Shark Bay
    – Detailed report on Adelaide's Bakewell Underpass
  • Report
    – WA offshore concrete oil and gas platforms
  • Technical
    – Galvanic corrosion protection of reinforced concrete structures at Cape Canaveral
  • New technology
    – High strength, structural lightweight concrete


  • CIA Vol 34 Issue 2 Volume 34 Issue 2

    Included in this issue:
  • News
    – New shotcreting recommended practice
    – Audit shows surplus for 2007
    fib and ACF relationships confirmed
    – International connections continue to expand
  • Projects
    – Update on Concrete Institute technical projects
  • Technical
    – Design and manufacture of flyash-based geopolymer concrete
    – Precast concrete facades – past, present and future
    – Durability planning and compliance testing in construction
  • Perspective
    – Lessons from the Big Dig collapse
  • New technology
    – Quality control device to trace the origin of concrete
  • Construction safety
    – What went wrong in the West Gate Bridge tragedy


  • Volume 34 Issue 1

    Included in this issue:
  • News
    – Practice note on non-destructive testing
    – New Zealand conference – call for papers
    – ASEC 2008 Australasian Structural Engineering conference
    – Sulfate-resisting concrete guide
  • Projects
    – Swanson Dock refurbishment
    – Paper on Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal concrete elements
  • Technical
    – Behaviour of one-way continuous reinforced concrete slabs
    – Using fault tree analysis in risk assessment of bridges


  • Volume 33 Issue 4

    Included in this issue:
  • News
    – New President announces council portfolios
    – Expressions of interest for 2009 awards
    – Institute appoints project manager
    – 2009 Bursary entries open
    – Industry veteran retires after almost 50 years
    – ICE honours Australian engineers
    – Two new concrete admixture products
    – Conference shares findings of latest research
  • Projects
    – Post-tensioning water treatment tanks in Queensland
    – Golf club stormwater resuse scheme
  • Technical
    – Evaluating flyash blended cements using rapid chloride permeability and long-term ponding testing
    – Post-tensioning in building structures


  • Volume 33 Issue 3

    Included in this issue:
  • News
    – WA branch seminar success
    – Institute and ACA discuss closer relationship
    – OneSteel and Smorgon merger completed
    – Australians involved in Saudi desert railway
  • Perspective
    – Contributing to improving our environment
  • Technical
    – Comparing tensile reinforcement anchorage in US, Eropean and Australian Standards
    – Current small-to-medium span concrete railway bridges in NSW



  • Concrete in Australia Vol 33 Issue 2 Volume 33 Issue 2

    Included in this issue:
  • News
    – Institute council set for next two years
    – Changes to constitution
    – SA Branch new executive
    – Draft national code for tilt-up safety
    – Mausoleum takes top prize in CCAA awards
    – Slag conference discusses sustainability
    – Entries called for 2007 student competition
  • Projects
    – Constructing a greenfield site community centre
    – Bridge slide sideways
    – Using non-ferrous, macro fibres in a marine environment
  • Perspective
    – Sustainability, the concrete industry and the Concrete Institute of Australia
  • Technical
    – Maintaining marine structures for whole of life economic performance
    – Salinity damage in NSW
    – 20 years of concrete block paving on King William Road, Adelaide


  • Concrete in Australia Vol 33 Issue 1 Volume 33 Issue 1

    Included in this issue:
  • News
    – Institute web site updated
    – GHD appoints concrete expert
    – Putting the spotlight on polished concrete
    – Precast industrial manual
    – Increasing benefits for non-metro members
    – Institute to support ASEC conference
  • Special project
    – Racing concrete canoes ont he River Torrens
  • Projects
    – Slipforming and post-tensioning for new silo
    – Don't risk non-compliant steel reinforcement
  • Perspective
    – Where will our Concrete Insitute be in 2020?
  • Technical
    – Worldwide progress in permeable and interlocking concrete paving
    – Soil loads on cut and cover tunnels under high fills


  • Concrete in Australia Vol 32 Issue 4 Volume 32 Issue 4

    Included in this issue:
  • News
    – New edition of Reinforcement Detailing Handbook
    – Something concrete for indigenous Australians
    – GRC recommended practice
    – Growth in ranks of retired membrs may signal change
  • Technical
    – Load sharing between concrete elements of varying age including the influence of shrinkage and creep
    – Moment redistribution and ductility of high strength concrete beams
    – Burj Dubai – the world's tallest building
    – Developments in Australian concrete water tanks
  • Perspective
    – Using precast and tilt-up concrete in buildings

  • Concrete in Australia Vol 32 Issue 3 Volume 32 Issue 3

    Included in this issue:
  • News
    – Formation of Post-Tensioning Institute of Australia
    – Concrete Institute to target 100 new Individual members
    – Productivity Commission reports on Standard
    – Completed bridge gets a new name
  • Technical
    – A cementitious coating for passive realkalisation of carbonated concrete at St Kilda Junction bridge
    – Behaviour of FRP wrapped concrete columns under eccentric loading
    – Design for blast and terrorist attack
    – Fibre reinforcement – steel versus macro synthetic
  • Certification
    – Quality reassurance for reinforcing steel
  • Perspective
    – Quality: it's really about durability