The AC Kennett Award is awarded each year to the best paper presented under the auspices of the ACA that deals with corrosion or degradation of non-metals such as polymers, polymeric coatings, composites and concrete.
Award Criteria
The following is a list of some of the points which may be taken into account when selecting the paper to receive this Award. The selection committee will rank each paper on a short list against these points:
- The paper could be a review of published material, or describe the results of original and novel research work, or detail a relevant case study.
- The paper must deal with an area of interest to ACA Members, be clearly written and easy to read.
- The paper should provide an understanding of how the non-metallic materials discussed in the paper degrade or corrode.
- Any experiments outlined must be explained with full details.
- Any results should be clearly presented and adequately discussed.
- The paper must provide clear concise conclusions based on the information, data or evidence included.
- Referencing should be in accordance with formatting requirements listed in the Author Guidelines’
Award Winners
Year | Recipients | Branch |
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1984 | A Eaton | New Zealand |
1985 | S Witorek & F Kolodzie | Newcastle |
1986 | D Postins | New Zealand |
1987 | R J Good, G C Moore & W J Wojciak | |
1988 | D A Hills | New Zealand |
1989 | A Kairaitis | |
1990 | No Award Given | |
1991 | P Lepoutre, C Stirlink & V Van Tilburg | |
1992 | L Marahusen, P Schweinberg & S Kokot | Queensland |
1993 | Fred Salome | New South Wales |
1994 | Neil Trebilco | |
1995 | W Green & M Nahas | Western Australia |
1996 | Willie Mandeno | New Zealand |
1997 | No Award Given | |
1998 | F Andrews-Phaedonos, F G Collins, W K Green & A M Peek | |
1999 | No Award Given | |
2000 | Peter Haberecht | Victoria |
2001 | Dennis Hills | New Zealand |
2002 | No Award Given | |
2003 | No Award Given | |
2004 | Zhao, Liu & Northwood | |
2005 | Julian Bleddyn | Western Australia |
2006 | Sue Freitag & Sheldon Bruce | New Zealand |
2007 | Peter Haberecht | Victoria |
2008 | Andrew Peek | Western Australia |
2009 | Brent Martin | New Zealand |
2010 | Robert Jeffrey | Newcastle |
2011 | Frederic Blin & Sarah Furman | Victoria |
2012 | Greg Moore, John Scheirs & Paul Vince | South Australia |
2013 | Antony Trueman | Victoria |
2014 | Graeme George | Queensland |
2015 | Tony Wells & Robert Melchers | Newcastle |
2016 | Patricia Shaw & Nick Marston | New Zealand |