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CIA Vol 36 Issue 1 Volume 36 Issue 2

Included in this issue:
  • News
    – Replacement bridge as other ends service life
    – Solid performance in South Australian boat race
    – Awards open for innovative repair
    – Case study now online
  • Projects
    – Update on Concrete Institute Technical Projects
  • Serviceability, deflection prediction and detailing
    – National Seminar Series: Serviceability – Design for deflection and crack control
    – Design of reinforced concrete for deflection control
    – Predicting the deflection of concrete structures in practice
    – Combined reinforcement – practical experiences
  • Technical feature : Concrete cover
    – Experience in the application of permeable interlocking concrete paving in Australia
    – Dubai Tower, Doha, Qatar
    – The role of concrete in sustainable development: recent New Zealand developments in research and innovation
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    CIA Vol 36 Issue 1 Volume 36 Issue 1

    Included in this issue:
  • News
    – Concreting feat a starring part in tallest building
    – Safety alert for precast lifting
    – Roadmap examines emissions reductions
    – Key highway link upgraded
  • Perspective
    – Innovations and trends in multi-rise construction
    – Developing an online gateway
  • Projects
    – Update on Concrete Institute Technical Projects
  • Technical paper (Peer reviews)
    – Factors affecting the production and characteristic strengths of reactive powder concretes
  • Technical feature : Concrete cover
    – Reinforced concrete cover: design issues and solutions
    – Achieving concrete cover in construction
    – Reinforcing the cover of concrete columns with steel fibres
    – Reinforcement cover: What are we doing wrong and how to correct it
    – Factors affecting non-destructive measurement of reinforcement cover
    – Checking concrete cover during construction
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    CIA Vol 35 Issue 3 Volume 35 Issue 4

    Included in this issue:
  • News
    – Biennial conference addresses the big issues
    – Fred Andrews-Phaedonos: pursuing the specialist path
    – Excellence in concrete awards
    – Individual contributions celebrated at conference dinner
    – 2011 Bursary entries open
    – Conference provides diversity
    – Revised Precast Concrete Handbook
    – Shrinkage and cracking seminar
    – Technical needs review
    – Cracking recommended practice
  • Perspective
    – Some issues with long term concrete corrosion on the sea-front
  • Technical: Projects
    – Construction of the Second Gateway Bridge in Brisbane
  • Technical Feature: Cracking
    – An introduction to cracking
    – Detailed exposition on cracks and crack control
    – Repair product for cracks
    – Slabs on grade: not all cracks are bad
    – Assessing cracks using numerical simulation
    – Case study: cracking along a saw-cut dowelled joint
    – Cracking prediction: international codes and recent research
  • Technical: Bursary Thesis
    – The influence of ballast on the flexural response of concrete railway sleepers

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    CIA Vol 35 Issue 3 Volume 35 Issue 3

    Included in this issue:
  • News
    – Concrete in Australia review
    – Institute council announced
    – fib – National Membership Group
    – Environmental accreditation for Xypex waterproofing products
    – Concrete frame choice for Melbourne office building
    – Inadequate foundations bring down apartments
    – Waterfront venue uses recycled concrete
    – 3D ultrasonics scanning for identifying concrete defects
  • Projects
    – Update on technical projects
    – New Perth Bunbury Highway now complete
    – Northern section of Gateway Motorway opens
    – Port Botany expansion well under way
  • Technical
    – The new Australian concrete structures standard – delays, problems and lessons
    – Development length and lapped splice length for deformed bars in tension – changes to Section 13 of AS3600
    – Restrictions on the use of Class L reinforcement in AS3600-2009
    – Detailing of High Strength Concrete Columns to AS3600-2009
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    CIA Vol 35 Issue 2 Volume 35 Issue 2

    Included in this issue:
  • News
    – Concrete Institute leads on reforming durability design and construction
    – Construction recovery needs private capital to replace government "pump priming"
    – UNSW seminar discusses research findings
    – Engineer honoured by Indian Concrete Institute
    – Hybrid concete construction provides high-rise solution
  • Projects
    – Highway upgrade in North Queensland
    – Sydney’s newest rail project completed
    – New road opens on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast
  • Technical
    – Observations of long-term concrete corrosion on Scotland’s North Sea coast
    – Thermal advantages of insulated sandwich panels
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    CIA Vol 35 Issue 1 Volume 35 Issue 1

    Included in this issue:
  • News
    – Growth a top priority for new chief executive
    – Galvanised Reinforcement publication released
    – International honour for Jim Forbes
    – Diamond tools supplier's unusual heritage
    – Safety milestone celebrated on Brisbane hospital
  • Projects
    – Another milepost on the Pacific Highway upgrade
    – Stormwater recovery system for residential community
    – New culverts replace steel pipe with precast
  • Technical
    – Structural failures – the social context
    – Durability planning for infrastructure projects
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