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Seismic Bridge Retrofits: Protecting the Entire Load Path
How seismic bridge retrofits address span support, columns, bearings, foundations, ground movement, construction, and post-earthquake inspection.
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Restoring Aging Transport Infrastructure: Diagnose Before You Repair
A practical approach to restoring roads, railways, bridges and tunnels: investigate deterioration, choose the right intervention and verify performance.
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Asphalt Innovations: Test the Mix Beyond the Binder
Warm-mix asphalt, RAP, modified binders and functional surfaces offer potential benefits, but plant control, compaction and field monitoring determine performance.
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Acoustic Monitoring of Tunnel Linings: Methods, Alerts and Limits
How acoustic emission, active-wave testing and distributed acoustic sensing help investigate tunnel linings—and why alerts need site records and inspection.
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Soil-Structure Interaction in Bridge Foundations
How ground stiffness, foundation type and changing site conditions affect bridge response—and what investigation, modelling and inspection need to establish.
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Environmental Assessment for Transport Infrastructure: Pathways, Evidence and Controls
How to assess environmental impacts of roads, railways, bridges and tunnels through impact pathways, consistent option comparisons, testable controls and monitoring.
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Assessing Safety and Recovery on Mountain Transport Corridors
A practical approach to mapping failure chains, monitoring hazards, prioritizing works and making closure and reopening decisions on mountain roads and railways.
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Soil Erosion at Roads, Railways and Bridges: Diagnose Before Repair
How to investigate erosion around transport assets, prioritise risks, select controls and check whether repairs hold up after storms.
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Earthquake-Resistant Tunnel Design: Ground Movement, Interfaces and Reopening
How seismic ground movement affects tunnels, where damage concentrates, and what investigation, detailing and post-event checks support safe reopening.
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Railway Bridge Diagnostics: Match the Evidence to the Decision
How to investigate railway bridge defects using targeted inspection, train-response measurements and monitoring, without mistaking an anomaly for proof of damage.