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Program
More information on Conference highlights is available on the Highlights page.
** Draft program (subject to change).
Sunday 10 October
Technical Tour (departs conference venue at 11.30 am and concludes at 5 pm)
More information on the Technical Tour can be found here.
Registration opens, 2nd International Sprayed Sealing Conference delegate welcome reception
(5 pm - 6.30 pm)
Trade Exhibition
Monday 11 October
8 am - 9 am Registration and welcoming tea and coffee
9 am - 10.30 am Opening ceremony & Keynote address: Imperatives in sustaining sprayed sealing practice
Traditonal welcome
Mr Gary Liddle, CEO VicRoads
Mr Dennis Rossmann, South African National Roads Agency (SANRAL)
Mr Andrew Bethune, VicRoads
Achievement award presentation to Mr John Bethune
10.30 am - 11 am morning tea
11am - 12.30 pm Special session: Case Studies
Case studies from Australia, New Zealand and South Africa
12.30 pm - 1.30 pm lunch
1.30 pm - 3 pm Paper session: Seal performance
- Paving fabric seal design and performance on Australian roads
- Modelling the flushing mechanism of thin flexible surfaced pavements in
New Zealand
- Trends and changes in chipsealing in New Zealand
- Synthesis on Cape Seal variations in Southern Africa
3 pm - 3.30 pm afternoon tea
3.30 pm - 5.30 pm Paper session: Seal design and construction
- Spray seals: quality + application skills = performance
- Sprayed Sealing for airport pavement
- Methodology used for identifying reseal projects in the Western Cape
- Challenges facing the labour-based construction of bituminous surfacings in
Africa
- The impact of cold weather and high night-time traffic on aggregate stripping
of a single seal: a case study at Beaufort West, South Africa.
Conference dinner at the Reagent Theatre (Plaza Ballroom) – commences at 7 pm
Tuesday 12 October 2010
8 am - 9 am Registration and welcoming tea and coffee
9 am - 11 am Paper session: Bitumen and binders
- The development of a test method for determining emulsion bond strength
using the Bitumen Bond Strength (BBS) Test
- Use of Dynamic Shear Rheometer for the Bitumen Durability Test
- Bitumen-tyre adhesion in relation to flushed seals
- Selection of a suitable prime coat
- Resealing with bituminous emulsions in the ACT
- The use and performance of bitumen rubber in spray seals for holding actions
in RSA
11 am - 11.30 am morning tea
11.30 am - 1 pm Special session: Country 'biggest issues'
This session will highlight the biggest issues facing sprayed seals into the
future.
Presentations will be made by specialists from Australia, New Zealand and
South Africa.
Topics may include:
- Meeting the traffic challenges
- Surface preparation
- Loss of skills
1 pm - 2 pm lunch
2 pm - 4.30 pm Special session: Hypothetical
A challenging sealing design problem will be outlined. Practitioners from
Australia, New Zealand and South Africa will present their country’s
solutions to the problem and these will be compared. Changes to national
seal design procedures may be considered as an outcome of this session.
Conference summary & future directions
