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RT Radiography for Detection of CUI

Events Admin Wednesday, August 26, 2020

Description CUI can be extremely difficult to detect, with insulation and cladding often masking corrosion and traditional methods, such as visual inspection through the removal of cladding and insulation can be time-consuming. Often the true extent of corrosion is not realised until…

Cathodic Protection of Concrete Structures Q&A Webinar

Events Admin Wednesday, August 26, 2020

The ACA NSW Branch hosted a unique Q&A webinar session on cathodic protection of steel-reinforced concrete structures, featuring six industry-leading guest speakers. Our guest panel discuss impressed current, hybrid, and sacrificial CP systems as well as some related topics submitted by the…

Chairman’s Update

Events Admin Thursday, August 13, 2020

Dear members and colleagues, I hope you’re all staying safe and well as we endeavour to stay vigilant, yet connected through this ongoing pandemic. Since my last update, the circumstances have changed for all of our branches, some improving, some worsening, as…

Les Boulton retiring from Fulltime Consulting – An acknowledgement from the ACA.

Events Admin Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Les Boulton, one of the ACA’s ‘legends’, has decided to transition into semi-retirement and close his consultancy business, Les Boulton and Associates, to spend more time with his family after more than 40 years as a corrosion scientist and consultant. Les began…

The Importance of Concrete Surface Preparation

Events Admin Wednesday, July 29, 2020

The third and final of the ACA and ACRA series of joint webinar presentations on Silicosis and its prevention. Adequate surface preparation is the key to successful concrete repair and concrete protection projects. Inadequate surface preparation often leads to the failure of…

Non-Destructive Testing Methods

Events Admin Wednesday, July 29, 2020

The VIC branch of the ACA and the Australian Institute for Non-Destructive Testing presented this webinar on Non-Destructive Testing given by Glen Haberl (AICIS Pty Ltd) (Prerecorded). The presentation consists of three parts. The first reviewing conventional Non-destructive testing (NDT) methods including…

Special Edition of the CES&T Journal in Honour of Brian Cherry

Events Admin Wednesday, July 8, 2020

The ACA would like to pay our thanks and offer our congratulations to Bruce Hinton, Mike Tan and Nick Birbilis, who have been successful in the production of a Special Edition (Vol 55, Issue 4, 2020) of the Corrosion Engineering Science &…

Designing Durable Steel Structures – SNZ TS 3404

Events Admin Wednesday, July 1, 2020

With the publication of SNZ TS 3404 in 2018, its inclusion as an Acceptable Solution in the NZ Building Code in 2019, and the recent publication of the Engineering NZ B2(Durability) guidance; progress in providing design engineers with the technical guidance to…

Dust Control in Construction

Events Admin Monday, June 29, 2020

The second in a series of joint webinar presentations on Silicosis and its prevention, presented by ACRA and The ACA. The presentation gives the audience a view of how much dust normal operations of drilling, cutting & grinding concrete generate. It then…

Evolution of Coatings for Protection against CUI

Events Admin Friday, June 26, 2020

The ACA Oil & Gas Technical Group invited our first international guest speaker, Neil Wilds (Sherwin Williams) to kick off a series of webinars focused on the challenges of detecting and mitigating CUI. Corrosion under insulation (CUI) is one of the major…