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Technology in Australia 1788-1988Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
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Chapter 6

I Construction During The Settlement Years

II The Use Of Timber As A Structural Material

III Structural Steel

IV Concrete Technology

V Housing

VI Industrialised Pre-cast Concrete Housing

VII Ports And Harbours

VIII Roads

IX Heavy Foundations
i Hawkesbury Railway Bridge
ii Impact of Floods
iii Hydraulic Jetting
iv Development Between First and Second World Wars
v Foundations Post-Second World War
vi Victorian Arts Centre
vii Bowen Bridge

X Bridges

XI Sewerage

XII Water Engineering

XIII Railways

XIV Major Buildings

XV Airports

XVI Thermal Power Stations

XVII Materials Handling

XVIII Oil Industry

XIX The Snowy Mountains Scheme

XX The Sydney Opera House

XXI The Sydney Harbour Bridge

XXII Hamersley Iron

XXIII North West Shelf

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Bowen Bridge

A notable example of modern caisson work is to be found in the Bowen Bridge at Hobart designed by Maunsell and Partners. Here, in 1982, massive gravity caissons were constructed to a maximum depth of 40 metres (inside 14 metre diameter precast concrete cofferdams). In recognition of the vital significance of a permanent crossing of the River Derwent, these caissons were designed to resist head-on collision by a 5000 tonne ship.

Finally, recent technological advances have led to the development of instrumentation of driven piles which permits accurate assessment of resistance and soil properties during driving from records of strain and acceleration. This scientific enhancement to the practice of pile design and construction meets a long felt need, and could well represent one of the great steps out of the Roman Age of foundation engineering.


People in Bright Sparcs - Sewell, A. P.

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