A/Prof. Kerry McManus   Director AUSLINK Low Volume Roads Research

• AM
• RFD
• PhD
• MEngSc
• BE
• FIE Aust
• FCILT
• MASEE
• CPEng

Associate Professor Kerry McManus has been involved in the education of Engineers at tertiary level for almost forty years, mainly spent at Swinburne University of Technology. He has also had appointments at the University of Queensland, Loughborough University of Technology, UK and Louisiana State University , Baton Rouge, USA. as a Visiting Professor He is now retired from full time service and has been appointed as an Adjunct Associate Professor at Swinburne. Prior to his retirement, he held the position of Deputy Head of the School of Engineering and Science. He has taught in the undergraduate and postgraduate course work programs. and has been involved in supervising research degrees.

Both his research and teaching excellence have been recognised by Swinburne. He was awarded the inaugural Research Excellence Award and Medal in 1999. The Teaching Excellence Award for 1995 was granted to him by the Division of Science, Engineering and Design of Swinburne University of Technology. He and his co-authors were given the ARRB Transport Research Prize in 1996 for Best Paper on research into practice at the 18th ARRB Transport Research Conference & Transit NZ Transport Symposium - Roads 96, held in Christchurch NZ. In 2008, he was invited to present a paper to the Oxford Round Table dealing with sustainability.

He has successfully supervised nineteen postgraduate research degrees and is currently looking after another seven candidates. Funds for research have been generated from both industrial and competitive grant sources, by him, to the extent of $2.25 million. An outcome of the research has been the production two book chapters and of over one hundred and forty papers published in refereed journals and conferences. He holds an Australian patent with a colleague for Sound Barriers made of recycled material. He acts as a reviewer of papers for a number of journals and international conferences.

As an academic administrator, he has held appointments as Deputy Head of the School of Engineering and Science, Head of Civil Engineering and Director of a Research Group. He was also Director of the postgraduate Construction Management program which he began at Swinburne. This program has now been running successfully for thirty years.

He continues to serve on international and national committees related to his interests. He has been an international member of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies Committee on Waste Management and Resources Efficiency in Transportation (ADC-60), USA, since 2004. The National Centre for Pavement Engineering Education has utilised his services as a Board Member since 2000 and he chairs their Academic Board. He has served on the Editorial Board of a number of international conferences particularly in the field of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Computing. He is a former State Chairman of Engineers Australia and has served on National Congress. He also was a Board Member of the State Committee of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, Australia.

He served in the Army Reserve for over thirty years ending his career with the rank of Brigadier. He was appointed as a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for his services to the Army in.1991. He also holds the Reserve Force Decoration (RFD). He was also awarded the National Medal and the Defence Medal.

Recent Publications

Book Chapters

1. Hassan, R. and McManus, K., (2007), Chapter 4. “Perception thresholds for low frequency vibration and the effect of low frequency vibration on people in terms of comfort and annoyance”, The Effects of Low-Frequency Noise and Vibration on People, Edited by Colin H. Hansen, University of Adelaide.
2. McManus, K., (2010), Chapter 13, “A Policy for Sustainability of Low Volume Traffic Roads in an Australian Context, Climate Change and Sustainable Development”, edited by Professor Ruth Reck, Professor of Land, Air and Water Resources, University of California, Davis, published by Linton Atlantic Books, Ltd., Yarnton, Oxon (UK), Cambridge (UK), Chicago (USA), New York (USA)

Papers in Refereed Journals

3. Osman, N.Y, McManus, K.J, Tran, H.D, Krezel, Z.A, (2005), “The Prediction of Damage Condition in regards to Damage Factor Influence of Light Structures on Expansive Soils In Victoria, Australia.”, Computer Assisted Mechanics and Engineering Sciences (CEACM), Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Poland, (under review). (http://www.savmt.sk/CEACM/)
4. Tran, H. D., Ng, A. W. M., McManus, K. J. and Burn, S., (2006), “Prediction Models for Serviceability Deterioration of Stormwater Pipes”, Journal of Structure and Infrastructure Engineering, Published By: Taylor & Francis, ISSN: 1573-2479 print/ISSN 1744-8980 online.
5. Achim, D., Gothb, F., and McManus, K., (2007), “Prediction of Water Pipe Asset Life Using Artificial Neural Networks”, Journal of Infrastructure Systems, vol. 13, pp 26-30, ASCE, Washington, DC, USA.
6. Dehghan, A., McManus, K. and Gad, E., (2008) “Probabilistic Failure Prediction for Deteriorating Components in Infrastructure Systems: A Non-Parametric Approach”, Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities, Vol. 22, Issue 1, pp. 45-53 (January/February) ASCE, Washington, DC, USA
7. Dehghan, A., McManus, K. J., and Gad, E. F, (2008), “Statistical analysis of structural failures of water pipes”, Water Management, Print ISSN: 1741-7589, Vol. 161 Issue: 4, August, pp 207-214, ICE London, UK
8. McManus, K.J., (2009), “A Policy for Sustainability of Low Volume Traffic Roads in an Australian Context”, Forum on Public Policy Online, A Journal of the Oxford Round Table, Summer 2008 edition (January 2009).
9. Gladman, C. M., Boellaard, T. S. J., McManus, K. J. and Blicblau, A.S.,(2009), “Utilisation of Fluctuations in the Intensity of Reflected Light to Discriminate Amongst Different Road Surfaces”, Reinvention: a Journal of Undergraduate Research, Vol. 2, Issue 2 – http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/rsw/undergrad/cetl/ejournal/issues/volume2issue2/gladman/ (The Reinvention Centre for Undergraduate Research, UK, published 23 October 2009)
10. Krezel, Z. A and McManus, K. J (2010), “Ecologically sustainable noise barrier – further developments”, International Journal of Pavement Research and Technology.

Papers in Refereed Conferences

11. Osman, N.Y, McManus, K.J, (2005), “The Ranking of Factors Influencing the Behaviour of Light Structures on Expansive Soils in Victoria, Australia”. Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on the Application of Artificial Intelligence to Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, B.H.V. Topping (Ed), Civil- Comp Press, Stirling, Scotland
12. Osman, N.Y, McManus, K.J, Tran, H.D, Krezel, Z.A, (2005), “The Prediction of Damage Condition in Regards to Damage Factor Influence of Light Structures on Expansive Soils In Victoria, Australia”. International Symposium on Neural Networks and Soft Computing in Structural Engineering, Cracow, Poland, ECCOMAS, Spain
13. Krezel, Z.A., Ilijoski, T., McManus, K.J., and Otto, L., (2005). “Handling of recycled concrete aggregate in overhead bins in concrete batching plants”, 5rd International Congress Valorisation and Recycling of Industrial Waste VARIREI 2005, 28-30 June, L'Aquila, Italy.
14. Osman N. Y., McManus, K. J. and Ng, A. W. M., (2005), “Management and Analysis of Data for Damage of Light Structures on Expansive Soil in Victoria, Australia”, 1st International Conference on Structural Condition Assessment, Monitoring and Improvement, 12 - 14 December, University of Western Australia, Perth.
15. Tran, H. D., Ng, A. W. M. and McManus, K. J. (2005), “Practical Review: A Discussion Of Deterioration Models For Stormwater Pipe Systems In Victoria, Australia”, 1st International Conference on Structural Condition Assessment, Monitoring and Improvement, 12 - 14 December, University of Western Australia, Perth.
16. Dehghan, A and McManus, K, (2005), “Improved Estimation of Water Pipes Reliability for Urban Water Supply Systems”, 1st International Conference on Structural Condition Assessment, Monitoring and Improvement, 12 - 14 December, University of Western Australia, Perth.
17. Ng, A. W. M., Tran, D. H., Osman, N. Y. and McManus, K. J, (2006) “Application of Neural Networks in Modelling Serviceability Deterioration of Concrete Stormwater Pipes”, 7th WSEAS International Conference on Neural Networks, 12-14 Jun, Croatia
18. Hassan, R., McManus, K.J., and Coussens, I., (2006), “Development of HATI-Heavy Articulated Truck Index”, 22nd ARRB Conference-Research into Practice, Canberra, Australia.
19. McManus, K, (2007), “The Effects of Integration of Industry Faculty into a Construction Management Postgraduate Coursework Program in the Australian Environment”, ASEE Annual Conference, Hawaii, June 24-27, Honolulu
20. McManus, K.J., (2008), “A Policy for Sustainability of Low Volume Traffic Roads in an Australian Context”, The Oxford Round Table, Summer 2008
21. Hassan, R. and McManus, K.J, (2009), “Better Ride for Freight”, 15th International Conference on Urban Transport and the Environment, 22-24 June, 2009, Bologna, Italy, Editor: C. A. Brebbia, pp 451-460, Publisher: WIT Press, Wessex Institute of Technology, UK
22. Krezel, Z. A and McManus, K. J (2009), “Ecologically sustainable noise barrier – further developments”, II International Conference Environmentally Friendly Roads, (Enviroad 2009), Warsaw, October 15‐16, 2009
23. Hesami, R. McManus, K.J., Evans, R.E. and Hassan, R., (2009), “A Comparative Study of Roughness Indices for Monitoring the Performance of Thin Seal Flexible Pavements subjected to Low Traffic Volumes”, Twelfth International Conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Computing and the First International Conference on Soft Computing Technology in Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, 1-4 September 2009.
24. Hesami, R. and McManus, K.J., (2009). “A Signal Processing Approach to Road Roughness Analysis and Measurement”, IEEE, TENCON'09 , Singapore, Nov 2009