Research and Development

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Metro’s engineering staff enjoys exploring. We have a long history of probing and inventing. We have been involved in numerous privately and publicly funded research and development projects, covering a wide field of topics, like:

  • Procedures and Materials for soil and road-base stabilization
  • Properties of recycled concrete as structural fill, and methods of density testing for recycled concrete fill
  • Scaling of test specimens; effect of test specimen shapes and method of forming or extraction on the test results
  • Alternative methods for rapid determination of concrete compressive strength
  • Concrete admixture optimisation
  • Optimisation of fibre concrete and shotcrete composition
  • Contactless vibrometry for determination of structural health and flaw detection
  • Conditioning of concrete compression test cylinder contact faces by end-grinding
  • Surface wave spectrum analysis to evaluate pavement and sub-base conditions