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Staff Profiles - Kerry McManus



Kerry McManus

Contact Details:

Office Location: EN706e
Phone: +61 3 9214 8275
Fax: +61 3 9214 5417
Email:kmcmanus@swin.edu.au

Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences
Swinburne University of Technology
PO Box 218
Hawthorn, Victoria, 3122
Australia

Kerry McManus
RFD, BE(Qld), MEngSc(QLD), PhD(SUT), CPEng, FIEAust

Areas of Expertise and Research

  • Pavement deterioration models for lightly loaded pavements
  • Long Wavelength Roughness in pavements and its effects on pavement loading, dynamic loading of road structures and effect on the operators of heavy vehicles
  • Behaviour of light structures founded at shallow depths in expansive soils
  • Performance characteristics of earth bricks and masonry structures
  • Particle characteristics in turbidity events
  • Management of urban infrastructure assets over their lifecycle
  • Re-use of waste materials- acoustic barriers


Lecturing Fields

  • PG research supervision
  • PG Construction Management Master’s program
  • Research Project UG Infrastructure subjects


Professional Memberships and Activities

  • State Chairman, Victoria Division, Institution of Engineers, Australia, 1991
  • Federal Councillor, Institution of Engineers, Australia, 1991/2
  • Member, State Committee, Australian Geomechanics Society, 1998
  • Member, State Committee, Chartered Institute of Transport, 1998/9/00/01


Publications

  1. Evans, R. P., Holden, J. C. & McManus, K. J. (1996), Application of a New Vertical Moisture Barrier Construction Method for Highway Pavements, Road & Transport Research, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 4-12, ARRB Transport Research, Victoria, Australia..
  2. Mann, A, McManus, K. J. and Holden, J. C., (1997), Road Defect Assessment, Road & Transport Research, pp. 36-47, Vol. 6, No, 3, ARRB Transport Research, September
  3. Hassan, R., McManus, K.J. and Holden, J.C., (1999), Predicting Pavement Deterioration Modes Using Waveband Analysis, Transportation Research Record No. 1652, Vol. 2, pp. 181-187, National Research Council, Transportation Research Board.
  4. Evans, R. P., McManus, K. J and Holden, J. C., (1999), The Installation of Vertical Moisture Barriers to Reduce Expansive Soil Subgrade Movement, Transportation Research Record No. 1652, Vol. 2, pp. 108-112, National Research Council, Transportation Research Board.
  5. Hassan, R. and McManus, K.J. (2001), Estimating Dynamic Loading of Pavements from Surface Profile Properties, Road & Transport Research, Vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 3-17, ARRB Transport Research, Australia.
  6. Krezel, Z.A. and McManus, K.J., (2002), New Products made from Concrete Waste, International Journal of Integrated Waste Management, Science and Technology, Elsevier Science (under review)
  7. Hassan, R. and McManus, K.J. (2002), Perception of Low Frequency Vibrations by Heavy Vehicle Drivers, Journal of Low Frequency Noise, Vibration and Active Control, Vol. 21, No. 2, Multi-Science Publishing Company, Essex, UK


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