Rachelle Rigby

NZTA Experiences with the Protection and Repair of Concrete Road Bridges

Rachelle Rigby Friday, May 3, 2019

This post is taken from an original paper presented at Brian Cherry International Concrete Symposium 2017. Author:Barry Wright New Zealand Transport Authority A summary of New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) experiences with corrosion of concrete road bridges on the NZ state highway…

Rottnest Island’s Army Jetty collapse | A disaster eight years in the making

Rachelle Rigby Friday, February 15, 2019

Rottnest jetty | A recent KPMG report released slams the lack of asset management and poor corrosion management of the Pier

Concrete Structures and Buildings | Technical Event

Rachelle Rigby Thursday, February 7, 2019

Concrete Assets from Cradle to Grave Are you involved in the management of corrosion? This one-day seminar looking at pragmatic considerations and outlining practical and optimised solutions for reinforced concrete structures. Who Should Attend? Engineers Asset owners Maintenance managers Designers Managers Contractors…

Membership Changes and Improvements for 2019

Rachelle Rigby Monday, January 14, 2019

Corporate memberships now have more people included in the various membership categories. We have introduced a new membership level recently – the Diamond membership. This category allows 30 people full ACA membership. We would like to thank CCE for becoming our first Diamond…

Corrosion Control Engineering | Diamond Member

Rachelle Rigby Tuesday, January 8, 2019

CCE our newest ACA DIAMOND MEMBER

Industrial Transformation Training Centre for Corrosion Prevention

Rachelle Rigby Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Curtin Corrosion Centre An expert network of Australia’s leading scientists in corrosion, engineering and computing is seeking industry partners to participate in a proposal to the Australian Research Council to establish the Industrial Transformation Training Centre for Corrosion Prevention. The Industrial Transformation…

Anti-fouling Innovation | Keeping ships at sea longer

Rachelle Rigby Monday, October 22, 2018

Dr Andrew Ang of Swinburne University of Technology (Melbourne, Australia) has been selected overall winner for the prestigious 2018 Fresh Science Victoria Award for work related to corrosion and biofouling, A new corrosion-resistant coating that halved the build-up of algae and barnacles…

United States Coast Guard Does Corrosion…

Rachelle Rigby Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Copyright SAMMYCO VISUALS Obviously corrosion is important to the United States Coast Guard. The only criticism is that this video is not a musical like their riveting new movie Hangar Safety The USCG have a “Corrosion Related” button in their maintenance scheduling…

Digging in for tunnel durability

Rachelle Rigby Wednesday, September 5, 2018

Tunnels that carry road, rail and utility services are usually built to minimise the cost and time it takes to move people, freight and services around a city or country.

Morandi Bridge collapse

Rachelle Rigby Thursday, August 23, 2018

News on Morandi Bridge Collapse and a ACA Article "Corrosion Impact on Bridge Infrastructure"