Key topics

engineering

Engineering refers to the branch of science concerned with the design, building, and use of machines and structures.

Date	Item	Type		Key Topics
	Prediction of scour on bridge piers under flood loading	Project		engineering, exposure, flood
	Seismic assessment of reinforced concrete walls in Australia	Project		earthquake, engineering
	Investigation into the behaviour of a U-slab bridge due to flood	Project		engineering, flood, infrastructure
	Effects of masonry in flat-slab structures	Project		earthquake, engineering, infrastructure
	Planning for Bushfires on the Rural-Urban Interface: An analysis of the correlations between house setbacks and house loss as evidence of house-to-house fire spread in the 2009 Victorian Bushfires	Project		engineering, fire, planning
	Seismic retrofit of unreinforced masonry building facades with FRP composites	Project		earthquake, engineering, mitigation
	Seismic retrofitting of RC beam-column joints using metallic haunch	Project		earthquake, engineering
18 Aug 2015	Cost-Effective Mitigation Strategy Development for Flood Prone Buildings	Resource	save (118.41 KB)	engineering, flood, mitigation
30 Jun 2017	Water flow pressure changes on circular and square bridge piers under increasing velocity floods	Resource	save (1.62 MB)	engineering, flood, infrastructure
24 Oct 2016	Correlation of peak wind loads at batten-truss connections	Resource	save (391.85 KB)	cyclone, engineering, severe weather
04 Dec 2014	Resilience and mitigation through hardening the built environment	Resource	save (1 MB)	earthquake, engineering, environments
27 Apr 2017	Owners - replacing roofs on houses	Resource	save (0 bytes)	cyclone, engineering, mitigation
27 Aug 2019	Flood Vulnerability Functions: Detailed vs Generalised Approach	Resource	save (638.91 KB)	engineering, flood, mitigation
29 Jun 2017	Cost-effective mitigation strategy for earthquake risk	Resource	save (1.47 MB)	earthquake, engineering, mitigation
19 Sep 2018	Reducing wind damage to buildings by improving internal pressure design	Resource	save (3.23 MB)	cyclone, engineering, resilience
01 Sep 2016	Are our homes and buildings failing us? - David Henderson	Resource	save (8.26 MB)	cyclone, engineering, severe weather
31 Oct 2017	Three Minute Thesis: bridge failure under flood loading	Resource	save (325.2 KB)	engineering, flood, mitigation
18 Aug 2015	Failure Mechanism of a Typical Girder Bridge in Australia due to Seismic Loads	Resource	save (197.86 KB)	earthquake, engineering, mitigation
30 Jun 2017	Evaluating the performance of flood loadings on structural performance of a floodway	Resource	save (1.27 MB)	engineering, flood, mitigation
04 May 2016	Hardening buildings and infrastructure - cluster overview	Resource	save (0 bytes)	engineering, infrastructure, multi-hazard
24 Oct 2016	Improving the resilience of existing housing to severe wind events	Resource	save (6.56 MB)	cyclone, engineering, resilience
20 Oct 2014	Flaws in our understanding and perception of flood risk - podcast	Resource		engineering, flood, risk analysis
19 Jun 2015	Tropical Cyclone Olwyn Rapid Damage Assessment	Resource	save (790.15 KB)	cyclone, engineering
30 Jul 2019	Cost-effective mitigation strategy development for flood prone buildings	Resource	save (3.99 MB)	engineering, flood, mitigation
19 Sep 2018	Improving the resilience of existing housing to severe wind events	Resource	save (2.25 MB)	cyclone, engineering, mitigation
30 Aug 2016	Improving flood forecast skill using remote sensing data - Stefania Grimaldi	Resource	save (5.05 MB)	engineering, flood, remote sensing
31 Oct 2017	Cost-effective mitigation strategy for building related earthquake risk	Resource	save (1.76 MB)	earthquake, engineering, mitigation
18 Aug 2015	Capturing the Impact of the Failure of Critical Road Structures on the Community	Resource	save (176.07 KB)	engineering, mitigation, multi-hazard
29 Jun 2017	Wind induces internal pressures in industrial buildings	Resource	save (1.51 MB)	cyclone, engineering, resilience
07 Aug 2014	Measuring the impacts of bushfires on human fatalities and building losses	Resource	save (3.25 MB)	engineering, fire
19 Jun 2015	TC Marcia Rapid Assessment Report	Resource	save (1.07 MB)	cyclone, engineering
11 Sep 2015	The Role of Extreme Value Analysis to Enhance Defendable Space for Construction Practice and Planning	Resource	save (1.27 MB)	engineering
07 Jul 2017	Towards a safer built environment	Resource	save (8.24 MB)	engineering, infrastructure, multi-hazard
19 Sep 2018	Launceston Flood Risk Mitigation Assessment	Resource	save (17.61 MB)	engineering, flood, mitigation
29 Jun 2017	Improving the resilience of existing housing to severe wind events	Resource	save (2.28 MB)	cyclone, engineering, mitigation
21 Mar 2014	Enhancing resilience of critical road structures	Resource	save (722.83 KB)	engineering, flood, infrastructure
25 Nov 2020	Strength in the face of high winds	Resource		cyclone, engineering, mitigation
29 May 2015	Supplementary table - Building walls around flood problems: the place of levees in Australian flood management	Resource	save (249.82 KB)	engineering, flood, governance
03 Sep 2015	An earthquake loss scenario for Adelaide	Resource	save (2.16 MB)	earthquake, engineering, risk analysis
30 Jun 2017	Cost-effective mitigation strategy for flood prone buildings	Resource	save (1.62 MB)	engineering, flood, mitigation