Concrete Structures and Buildings – Australasian Corrosion Association

Cathodic Protection of Concrete Structures Q&A Webinar

ACA 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…

The Importance of Concrete Surface Preparation

ACA 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…

Dust Control in Construction

ACA 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 and grinding concrete generate. It then…

Steel reinforcement corrosion in concrete | Warren Green; Vinsi Partners

Website Admin Monday, June 1, 2020

Organic Corrosion Inhibitors | Jessi Jackson Meyer; MCI

Website Admin Monday, May 4, 2020

Organic Corrosion Inhibitors - Presentation by Jessi Jackson Meyer. This video is taken from the 2017 Brian Cherry Symposium.

New Zealand Experiences with Concrete Service Life Prediction Models: A Brief History

Event Support Friday, April 24, 2020

N. LeeOpus Research, Petone, New Zealand SUMMARY: As an island nation, much of New Zealand’s infrastructure and many of our metropolitan areas are in close proximity to the sea and reinforcement corrosion due to chloride ingress has long been presumed to present…

Modelling Durability of Reinforced Concrete Structures

Event Support Friday, April 17, 2020

R.E. Melchers Centre for Infrastructure Performance and Reliability,The University of Newcastle, Australia SUMMARY: Management of reinforced concrete assets increasingly relies on analytical models to predict the time to reinforcement corrosion, particularly to serious, damaging corrosion. Increasingly it is found that predictions by…

Concrete Road Bridges | Barry Wright; NZTA

Website Admin Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Speaking as a "low tech client" Barry Wright takes us though the process of identification and remediation of bridges in New Zealand.

Organic corrosion inhibitors – new build and existing structures performance

Event Support Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Corrosion of embedded steel is a leading cause of deterioration in reinforced concrete structures.

Brian Cherry Paper Series

Training admin Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Over the next few weeks we will be publishing a series of digital papers collated from the 2017 Brian Cherry Forum. These papers are free to read for ACA members. Our first paper is "Up to Date Overview of Aspects of Steel…