Institute for Infrastructure Engineering

The Institute has four Program Themes:   

Program 1: Infrastructure Systems is a central theme of the Institute. This program involves the analysis, assessment, design, maintenance and repair of infrastructure systems, an area of wide application. The research is concerned with the safety and reliability and mitigation strategies of infrastructure systems such as bridges, buildings, dams, hoppers and silos, roads, and water distribution systems (pipe networks).

Program 2: Infrastructure Computations. One of the research foci is on computational methods. Computational methods have played a major role in the advancement of many engineering disciplines over the last few decades. Computational methods can be used as efficient and reliable tools to solve challenging engineering problems when conventional experimental approaches become intractable or inefficient.

Program 3: Infrastructure Materials. This program covers the development, application, characterisation, recycling, remediation, disposal, modelling and monitoring of engineering materials as part of infrastructure design, development and management. Engineering materials include both natural resources and man-made materials such as soil, water, cemented soil, geofoam, concrete, steel, composite materials and recycled concrete.
 
Program 4: Infrastructure Health Monitoring. This program includes two primary non-contact techniques for structural health monitoring. These include image processing and signal processing techniques. In addition this theme will incorporate smart structures and structural control methods.

Find out more about Research within the Institute through Institute Research Projects, ARC Discovery Projects and ARC Linkage Projects.