Civil Engineering
Safe and long-lasting railways rely on correct preparation of subgrade, formation layers and structures under the track. Monash IRT works with broader civil engineering capabilities at Monash University to help railway industry partners to understand the performance of their assets and deliver practical innovations to every stage of the track design, build and maintain lifecycle.
Areas include:
- Measurement of formation properties, behaviours (GPR and other sensors)
- Geophysical methods to categorise soils and subgrades
- Numerical modelling using finite element, finite difference, smoothed particle hydrodynamics and particle flow methods
- Stabilisation of soils and crushed rocks with cementations and polymeric additives
- Climate change impact and effects
- Tunnels inspections and remaining life estimation
- Prediction of pavement deterioration due to traffic and environmental loadings
- Behaviour of rough joints and interfaces
- Behaviour of tapered piles in soils and rock
- Non-destructive evaluation of materials using high accuracy techniques such as high resolution insitu 3D X-Ray microscopy
- CO2 sequestration
