Publications in refereed accredited journals

1.      Elsaigh, WA; Robberts, JM & Kearsley, EP. Modellling the behaviour of steel fibre reinforced concrete ground slabs I: Development of material model. ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering Volume 137 (12), pp. 882 – 888, 2011.

2.      Elsaigh, WA; Kearsley, EP & Robberts, JM. Modellling the behaviour of steel fibre reinforced concrete ground slabs II: Development of slab model. ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering Volume 137 (12), pp. 889 – 896, 2011.

3.      Mahlaba, JS; Kearsley EP, Kruger, RA. & Pretorius, PC. Evaluation of workability and strength development of fly ash pastes prepared with industrial brines rich in SO₄⁼ and Cl^-  to expand brine utilisation. Minerals Engineering Volume 24 (10), pp. 1077 – 1081, 2011.

4.      Mahlaba, JS; Kearsley EP & Kruger, RA. Physical, chemical and mineralogical characterisation of hydraulically disposed fine ash from SASOL Synfuels. Fuel Volume 90 (7), pp. 2491 – 2500, 2011.

5.      Mahlaba, JS; Kearsley EP & Kruger, RA. Effect of fly ash characteristics on the behaviour of pastes prepared under varied brine conditions. Minerals Engineering Volume 24 (8), pp. 923 - 929, 2011.

6.      Denneman, E; Kearsley, EP & Visser, AT. Discrete fracture in high performance fibre reinforced concrete materials. Fracture Mechanics, Vol 78: 2235–2245, 2011.

7.      Denneman, E; Kearsley, EP & Visser, AT. Splitting tensile test for fibre reinforced concrete. Materials and Structures, Vol 44 (8): 1441-1449, 2011.

8.      Tarasov, A; Kearsley, EP; Kolomatskiy, A &  Mostert, D. Heat evolution due to cement hydration in foamed concrete Magazine of Concrete Research, Volume 62, No. 12, December, 895–906. 2010.

9.      Du Plessis, H; Kearsley, EP & Matjie, H. Effect of grinding time on the properties of cement containing Gasification ash and Portland cement clinker. Journal of the South African Institute of Civil Engineering, Volume 49(4) 2007.

10.    De Beer, FC, le Roux, JJ & Kearsley, EP. Testing the durability of concrete with neutron radiography. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Volume 542, Issues 1-3, 21 April 2005, Pages 226-231.

11.    Lushiku, MD & Kearsley, EP. The effect of material composition on the properties of dry shotcrete. Journal of the South African Institute of Civil Engineering, Volume 46 (2) 2004 pp. 2 – 8.

12.    Kearsley, EP, Wainwright PJ & Amtsbuchler, R. Effect of fly ash properties on concrete strength: discussion. Journal of the South African Institute of Civil Engineering, Volume 45(4) 2003 pp. 18 - 19

13.    Kearsley, EP & Wainwright PJ. Effect of fly ash properties on concrete strength. Journal of the South African Institute of Civil Engineering, Volume 45(1) 2003 pp. 19 - 24

14.    Elsaigh, WAM & Kearsley. EP. Effect of Ductility on Load Bearing Capacity of Steel Fibre Reinforced Ground Slabs.  Journal of the South African Institute of Civil Engineering, Volume 45(1) 2003 pp. 25 - 30

15.    Elsaigh, WAM & Kearsley. EP. The effect of Steel Fibre Content on Properties of Concrete.  Concrete/Beton Nr 102, December 2002 pp. 8 – 12.

16.    Visagie, M & Kearsley, EP. Properties of Foamed Concrete as Influenced by Microstructure.  Concrete/Beton Nr 101 September 2002 pp. 8 - 14. 

17.    Kearsley, EP & Wainwright PJ. .Ash Content for Optimum Strength of Foamed Concrete.   Cement and Concrete Research Volume 32 (2002) pp. 241 - 246.

18.    Kearsley, EP & Wainwright PJ. The Effect of Porosity on the Strength of Foamed Concrete. Cement and Concrete Research Volume 32 (2002) pp. 233 - 239.

19.    Potgieter, JH, Potgieter, SS, Loubser, M, Kearsley EP & Strydom, CA Stabilisation of a ferro-industry waste in various solid matrices. Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology Volume 77 (2002) pp. 311 – 314.

20.    Kearsley, EP & Wainwright PJ. Porosity and Permeability of Foamed Concrete. Cement and Concrete Research Volume 31 (2001) pp. 805 - 812.

21.    Kearsley, EP & Wainwright, PJ The effect of High Fly-ash Content on the Compressive Strength of Foamed Concrete.  Cement and Concrete Research Volume 31 (2001) pp. 105 – 112.

22.    Kearsley, EP & Booyens, PJ. Reinforced Foamed Concrete – Can it be Durable? Concrete Beton No 91, pp. 5 – 9, November 1998.

23.    Kearsley, EP, Waelbers, KCLF & Van Vuuren, SJ. Thin-walled large-diameter composite pipes, Proceedings Institution Civil Engineers, Municipal Engineer, Volume 115, pp. 144 - 150, September 1996.

24.    Kearsley, EP & Van As, SC. Deterioration of Rail Track Geometry, Journal of the South African Institution of Civil Engineers, Volume 37, Number 1, First Quarter, 1995.

Papers presented and published in international conference proceedings

1.     Kearsley EP & Matjie, H. The use of gasification ash fines in cement and concrete. Proceedings of the International Conference on Coal Ash, Pretoria, October 2006.

2.     Du Plessis, H, Kearsley EP & Matjie, H. The use of gasification ash in blended cements. Proceedings of  the International Conference on Coal Ash, Pretoria, October 2006.

3.     Kearsley, EP. Promoting the use of foamed concrete in the construction industry. Proceedings of the Poreconcrete – 2005 Conference, Belgorod, Russia. April 2005, pp. 17 – 24.

4.     Kearsley, EP. Optimizing Track Curve Procedures, The Engineering Institution of Zambia; 2^nd National Symposium on Science and Technology, Chingola, Zambia. November 1992.

Papers presented and published in refereed accredited conference proceedings

1.     Denneman, E, Kearsley, EP & Visser AT. Measurement of size-effect in monotonic and cyclic tests on fibre reinforced concrete pavement materials. Proceedings of the 7^th International DUT-workshop on fundamental modelling of design and performance of concrete pavements. Seville, October 2010.

2.     Kearsley, EP & Mostert HF. The use of recycled building materials as aggregate in concrete. Proceedings of the National Symposium on concrete for a Sustainable Environment, Kempton Park, Pretoria, August 2010.

3.     Kearsley, EP & Mostert HF. Enabling the effective use of high performance fibre reinforced concrete in infrastructure. Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Concrete Materials, Stellenbosch, South Africa, November 2009.

4.     Denneman, E, Kearsley, EP & Visser AT. Size-effect in high performance concrete road pavement materials. Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Concrete Materials, Stellenbosch, South Africa, November 2009.

5.     Kearsley, EP & Mostert HF. Comparing the behaviour of high strength fibre reinforced and conventional reinforced concrete beams. Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Concrete Materials, Stellenbosch, South Africa, November 2009.

6.     Denneman, E; Wu, R; Kearsley, EP & Visser, AT. Fracture Mechanics in Pavement Design. Proceedings of the 28^th Annual Southern African Transport Conference, Pretoria, July 2009.

7.     Du Plessis, H, Kearsley EP & Matjie, H. Reactivity of gasification ash in blended cements. Proceedings of the 3^rd Young Concrete Engineers, Practitioners and Technologist Conference, Midrand, May 2006.

8.     Elsaigh, WA & Kearsley EP. Effect of matrix strength on performance of steel fibre reinforced concrete. Proceedings of the 3^rd Young Concrete Engineers, Practitioners and Technologist Conference, Midrand, May 2006.

9.     Lushiku, MD & Kearsley EP. Effect of material composition on the toughness of dry shotcrete. Proceedings of the 3^rd Young Concrete Engineers, Practitioners and Technologist Conference, Midrand, May 2006.

10.  Elsaigh, WA, Kearsley EP & Robberts JM. Steel fibre reinforced concrete for road pavement applications. Proceedings of the 24^th Annual Southern African Transport Conference, Pretoria, July 2005.

11.  Kearsley, EP & Mostert, HF. Opportunities for Expanding the use of Foamed Concrete in the Construction Industry. Proceedings of the International Congress on Global construction: Concrete Opportunities, Dundee, Scotland. July 2005, Use of Foamed Concrete,  pp 143 - 154.

12.  Kearsley, EP & Mostert, HF. Designing mix composition of foamed concrete with high fly ash contents . Proceedings of the International Congress on Global construction: Concrete Opportunities, Dundee, Scotland. July 2005, Use of Foamed Concrete, pp 29 - 36.

13.  Kearsley, EP & Mostert, HF. The use of Foamed Concrete in Refractories. Proceedings of the International Congress on Global construction: Concrete Opportunities, Dundee, Scotland. July 2005, Use of Foamed Concrete,  pp 89 - 96.

14.  Kearsley, EP & Mostert, HF. Optimizing mix composition for steel fibre reinforced concrete with ultra high flexural strength. Proceedings of the Sixth RILEM Symposium on Fibre Reinforced Concrete (FRC), BEFIB 2004, Varenna, Italy. September 2004, Volume 1 pp. 505 - 514.

15.  Kearsley, EP & Mostert, HF. The effect of fibres on the shear strength of reinforced concrete beams. Proceedings of the Sixth RILEM Symposium on Fibre Reinforced Concrete (FRC), BEFIB 2004, Varenna, Italy. September 2004, Volume 2, pp. 955 - 964.

16.  Elsaigh, WAM, Robberts, JM & Kearsley, EP. Modelling non-linear behaviour of steel fibre reinforced concrete.  Proceedings of the Sixth RILEM Symposium on Fibre Reinforced Concrete (FRC), BEFIB 2004, Varenna, Italy. September 2004, Volume 2, pp. 837 - 846.

17.  Verryn, SMC, Poellmann, HJ & Kearsley, EP. 'The use of Fe-Mn submerged-arc furnace slag in composite Portland cement – a pilot study', 8^th International Congress on Applied Mineralogy, Brazil, September 2004.

18.  Kearsley, EP & Mostert HF. The Effect of Polypropylene Fibres on the Properties of Foamed Concrete, Proceedings of International Symposium: Role of Concrete in Sustainable Development, Dundee, Scotland, September 2003, pp. 557 – 566.

19.  Pretorius, JHC & Kearsley EP. The Influence of High Volumes of PFA on the Workability of Pastes. Proceedings of the 11^th International Conference on the Chemistry of Cement, May 2003, Durban South Africa, pp. 758 – 768.

20.  Potgieter, JH, Potgieter, SS, Loubser, M, Kearsley, EP,  Strydom, CA, de Waal, D & Paul, S. The use of Fly Ash to Treat Waste from the Ferro-alloy Industries.  Proceedings of the 11^th International Conference on the Chemistry of Cement, May 2003, Durban South Africa, pp. 2148 – 2155.

21.  Potgieter, SS, Potgieter, JH, Loubser, M, Kearsley, EP & Strydom, CA. The use of Combustion Products to treat a Ferro-industry Waste. Proceedings of International Workshop on Novel Products from Combustion Residues; Opportunities and Limitations. June 2001, Morella, Spain, pp. 145 – 152.

22.  Kearsley, EP. Just Foamed Concrete – An Overview. Proceedings Creating with Concrete (Conference on Specialist Techniques and Materials for Concrete Construction), Dundee, UK, 1999, pp. 225-237.

23.  Visagie,  M & Kearsley, EP Micro-properties of Foamed Concrete Proceedings Creating with Concrete (Conference on Specialist Techniques and Materials for Concrete Construction), Dundee, UK, 1999, pp. 173-184.

24.  Kearsley, EP. The use of Foamcrete in Southern Africa, Proceedings of the Third CANMET/.ACI International Conference on High Performance Concrete, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 1997. American Concrete Institute, 1997, pp. 919 – 934.

25.  Kearsley, EP & Mostert, HF. Foamcrete in Developing Communities, Proceedings FIP Symposium 1997: The Concrete Way to Development, Johannesburg, South Africa, March 1997. The Concrete Society of Southern Africa, 1997, pp. 735 - 745.

26.  Kearsley, EP. The Use of Foamcrete for Affordable Development in Third World Countries, International Congress, Concrete in Service of Mankind, Dundee, Scotland, June 1996, pp. 233 – 243.

27.  Van Vuuren, SJ, Kearsley, EP & Waelbers, KCLF. Evaluation of Composite Pipe to be used in the Reconstruction and Development of South Africa, The 11^th International Conference on Pipeline Protection, Florence, Italy. October 1995.

28.  Kearsley, EP & Van As, SC. The Effect of Heavy Haul Traffic on Track Geometry Deterioration, The Fifth International Heavy Haul Conference, Beijing, China. June 1993.

Conference papers presented (but not published)

1.     Kearsley, EP. Effect of new blended cements on the properties of concrete used by the construction industry. The Workshop and symposium on Cement: Alternative Raw Materials and Methods in Cement Chemistry. September 2005, Mineralogical Association of South Africa, Council for Geosciences, Pretoria.

2.     Kearsley, EP. Effect of the National Senior Certificate and Outcomes Based Education on the Civil Engineering Industry of South Africa. Workshop on Critical issues in school mathematics and science: Pathways to progress.  Academy of Science of South Africa 30 September 2009.

3.     Kearsley, EP. The relevance of Material Properties used for modelling High Performance Fibre Reinforced Concrete (HPFRC). Plenary speaker at the Seventh South African conference on Computational and Applied Mechanics, January 2010.

Published reports

1.     Kearsley, EP. Lightweight moveable superstructure for VIP toilets. Water Research Commission (WRC) Report on project K5/1781/3. March 2010.

Technical reports

1.     Kearsley, EP. The effect of fibres on the behaviour of concrete floor slabs. Reasearch report for Alpha Stone and Ready Mix, January 2000.

2.     Kearsley, EP.  The effect of aggregate source on the short and long term deformation of concrete. Research report for Alpha Stone and Ready Mix, August 2003.

3.     Kearsley, EP. Testing of Railway Sleepers. Technical report for Africon Consulting Engineers, November 2005.

4.     Kearsley, EP. Structural Load Testing of the Concrete Structure in the Central Drawing Archives, Pretoria. Technical Report for Katiso Contracting, April 2006.

5.     Kearsley, EP. Structural Load Testing of Ultra Thin Concrete for Pavements. Research report for the Department of Transport, June 2006.

6.     Kearsley, EP. The effect of Maccaferri Fibres on Concrete Properties. Research report for Maccaferri, August 2007.

7.     Kearsley, EP. Structural Load Testing of Ash Concrete for Pavements. Research report for CSIR, June 2007.

Chapters in books

1.     Kearsley, EP & Mostert HF. Enabling the effective use of high performance fibre reinforced concrete in infrastructure. Advances in Cement-based Materials. Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Concrete Materials, Stellenbosch, South Africa, Taylor & Francis Group, London. November 2009, pp. 287 - 295.

2.     Denneman, E, Kearsley, EP & Visser AT. Size-effect in high performance concrete road pavement materials. Advances in Cement-based Materials.  Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Concrete Materials, Stellenbosch, South Africa, Taylor & Francis Group, London. November 2009, pp. 53 - 58.

3.     Kearsley, EP & Mostert HF. Comparing the behaviour of high strength fibre reinforced and conventional reinforced concrete beams. Advances in Cement-based Materials. Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Concrete Materials, Stellenbosch, South Africa, Taylor & Francis Group, London. November 2009, pp. 91 - 96.

4.     Kearsley, EP. Chapter 19: Low density concrete. 9^th Edition of Fulton’s Concrete Technology, 2009.

5.     Kearsley, EP & Mostert, HF. Opportunities for Expanding the use of Foamed Concrete in the Construction Industry. Proceedings of the International Congress on Global construction: Ultimate Concrete Opportunities (Conference on Use of Foamed Concrete in construction), Dundee, Scotland. July 2005. Thomas Telford, London, 2005, pp. 143 - 154.

6.     Kearsley, EP & Mostert, HF. Designing mix composition of foamed concrete with high fly ash contents . Proceedings of the International Congress on Global construction: Ultimate Concrete Opportunities (Conference on Use of Foamed Concrete in construction), Dundee, Scotland, UK. July 2005. Thomas Telford, London, 2005, pp. 29 - 36.

7.     Kearsley, EP & Mostert, HF. The use of Foamed Concrete in Refractories. Proceedings of the International Congress on Global construction: Ultimate Concrete Opportunities (Conference on Use of Foamed Concrete in construction), Dundee, Scotland. July 2005. Thomas Telford, London, 2005, pp. 89 - 96.

8.     Kearsley, EP & Mostert, HF. Optimizing mix composition for steel fibre reinforced concrete with ultra high flexural strength. Proceedings of the Sixth RILEM Symposium on Fibre Reinforced Concrete (FRC), BEFIB 2004, Varenna, Italy. RILEM Publications PRO39, Volume 1 pp. 505 - 514.

9.     Kearsley, EP & Mostert, HF. The effect of fibres on the shear strength of reinforced concrete beams. Proceedings of the Sixth RILEM Symposium on Fibre Reinforced Concrete (FRC), BEFIB 2004, Varenna, Italy. RILEM Publications PRO39, Volume 2, pp. 955 - 964.

10.  Elsaigh, WAM, Robberts, JM & Kearsley, EP. Modelling non-linear behaviour of steel fibre reinforced concrete.  Proceedings of the Sixth RILEM Symposium on Fibre Reinforced Concrete (FRC), BEFIB 2004, Varenna, Italy. RILEM Publications PRO39, Volume 2, pp. 837 - 846.

11.  Kearsley, EP & Mostert HF. The Effect of Polypropylene Fibres on the Properties of Foamed Concrete, Proceedings of International Symposium: Role of Concrete in Sustainable Development, Dundee, Scotland, 2003. Thomas Telford, London, 2003,  pp. 557 – 566.

12.  Kearsley, EP. Just Foamed Concrete – An Overview. Proceedings Creating with Concrete (Conference on Specialist Techniques and Materials for Concrete Construction), Dundee, UK, 1999. Thomas Telford, London, 1999, pp. 225-237.

13.  Visagie,  M & Kearsley, EP Micro-properties of Foamed Concrete Proceedings Creating with Concrete (Conference on Specialist Techniques and Materials for Concrete Construction), Dundee, UK, 1999. Thomas Telford, London, 1999, pp. 173-184.

14.  Kearsley, EP. The Use of Foamcrete for Affordable Development in Third World Countries, International Congress, Concrete in Service of Mankind, Dundee, Scotland, 1996. E & FN Spon, 1996, pp. 233 – 243.

Registered patents

1.     A method of manufacturing a closure member of cementitious material (Ref: P44058ZP00 LVDW filed on 29 September 2008)

2.     Field unit – trailer for manufacturing foamed concrete in remote areas using single phased power, bag batching and automatic foam addition.(Ref: 972640 filed on 26 March 1997)

3.     Blade to replace normal rotating drum mixer blades thus making it possible to manufacture foamed concrete using standard construction equipment. (Ref: 135700 filed on 11 April 1997)