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Brian Shackel

BE Sheff, MEngSc PhD UNSW, CPEng, FIEAust

Visiting Fellow

Contact Details

Office Location:
CE 507 Civil Engineering Building (H20)
Phone: +61 2 9385 5022
Fax: + 61 2 9385 6139
Email: b.shackelroberto@unsw.edujlo.au

Teaching Areas

Pavement Engineering
Highway Engineering
Soil Mechanics

Research Areas

Segmental Paving
Laboratory and full-scale accelerated trafficking studies of concrete block pavements and clay brick pavements involving tests on nearly 200 prototype full-scale pavements. Development of design procedures and construction methods including machine laying of pavers.
Airport, Industrial and Heavy Duty Pavements
Development and application of computer-based design methods, computer-assisted specification writing.
Accelerated Trafficking Studies
Full-scale and reduced scale testing of roads and heavy duty pavement subjected to accelerated trafficking. Pavement instrumentation and evaluation.
Repeated Triaxial Load Tests
Development and application of computer-controlled true triaxial repeated loading equipment.
Characterisation of anisotropic materials. Simulation service evaluation of materials.

Selected Publications

Shackel, B., "Computers an Aid to Promoting Efficiency in Road Pavement Design and Specification", Proc. IRF/ARF Road Conference, Gold Coast, (1991).

Shackel, B., "Implications of Mechanistic Pavement Design on the Choice of Procedures for Testing Pavement Materials", Keynote Paper, Aust. Road Res. Bd., APRG Rpt. 3, (1991).

Shackel, B., "Design and Construction of Interlocking Concrete Block Pavements", Elsevier Applied Science, London, (1990).

Shackel, B., "The Design of Heavy Duty Industrial Concrete Pavements", Concrete in Transportation (D.R. Morgan ed.), American Concrete Inst, SP93, Detroit, (1986).

Professional Services

Consultant to industry through Unisearch Ltd in areas of pavement design and construction, pavement materials, concrete block pavements, airport and industrial pavements, highway engineering, local government engineering.

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