Research and development
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Rail CRC
Don Cameron is the UniSA leader of a project in
Theme 2 of the Rail CRC, which involves research on the stability of
railway formations. The industry partners are Australian Rail and Track
Corporation (ARTC) and Queensland Rail.
The 3-year project is in its
second year and it supports 3.5 postgraduate students, one from
University of Wollongong, and the remainder from UniSA.
The Centre for Environment, Recreation
and Management (CERM) and the Centre for Industrial and Applied
Mathematics (CIAM) are also involved
through Joan Gibbs and John Boland, from the respective groups,
supervising postgraduate
students.
For further information see 'Rail CRC'.
City of Salisbury
Since 2000,
the City of Salisbury has supported applied research into street trees
to test the suitability of various 'street' trees planted on expansive clay
sites. The research looks at recently planted street trees and reactive
clays soils in a newly established subdivision.
The project focuses
on how the trees dry the underlying reactive clay soils, and their
potential to extract water from the soil and the influence of soil
movements (caused by tree drying ie. soil drying). Determining the trees' interaction with the soils, and studying
soil movement patterns may influence future design and construction of
road pavements, kerbs, road verges and residential housing foundations.
Supported by the City of Salisbury and the
Local Government Association, Aaron O'Malley is nearing completion of
his PhD on “The influence of trees on dwellings and pavements in an
urban environment”.
For more information see 'City
of Salisbury Street Trees Project'
O’Donnell Griffin
O'Donnell Griffin is
supporting the PhD research being conducted by Chirawat Tongkasame into
reinforcement of transmission towers. This support to date has been
primarily through the involvement of their Senior Transmission Engineer
Mr Graham Brown in both the PhD research and a related undergraduate
project.
O’Donnell Griffin supported a successful University grant
application and have worked with Drs Mills and Zhuge on an ARC Linkage
Grant application for in second round of 2004.
Transport SA
A testing facility
for applying pulsating loads to a range of pavement types and
configurations has
been proposed to be set up on the laboratory strong floor. This would be
used for future
research and development with Transport SA.
A licence for manufacture of
specialised instrumentation for this facility has been purchased from University
of Nottingham. Seed funding has been
allocated to SMAG to test the feasibility of the facility.