Civil Structural & Environ Eng (Theses and Dissertations): Recent submissions

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    • A GIS model for personal exposure to PM10 for Dublin commuters 

      PILLA, FRANCESCO (Trinity College Dublin, 2012)
      The project has focused on a number of scientific issues in the development of the GIS air quality model for the Dublin Area and its Satellite Towns . Firstly, how to model air quality by integrating existing and ...

    • Development of a New Apparatus for Hollow Cylinder Testing 

      O'Kelly, Brendan C. (PhD thesis, University College Dublin (Supervisor Dr. T.F. Widdis; Extern Prof. David Muir Wood), University College Dublin, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, 2001)
      The Hollow Cylinder Apparatus (HCA) is the only soil test device that can facilitate independent control of both the magnitudes and directions of the principal stresses. The stress history and loading conditions at a point ...

    • Mechanical Properties and Slope Stability of Dewatered Digested Sewage Sludge 

      O'Kelly, Brendan (MEngSc thesis (Supervisor Dr. T.F. Widdis; Extern Prof. A. Coul), University College Dublin, University College Dublin, Engineering, 1995)
      The necessity for economically feasible landfill operations for the safe disposal/use of municipal sludges has become of paramount importance as a result of increasing environmental requirements augmenting the quantities ...

    • Modelling Progressive Collapse in Steel Structures 

      JANSSENS, VICTORIA MARIA (Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, 2012)
      The partial collapse of the Ronan Point apartment tower in 1968 was a pivotal event with regard to the way structural engineers considered progressive collapse. This event spurred a significant amount of research into the ...

    • The Detection of Infarcted Stroke Tissue via Localised Sodium Concentration Measurements: A Non-Invasive Approach 

      WETTERLING, FRIEDRICH (Trinity College Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, 2009)
      Quantitative 23Na Magnetic Resonance Imaging (qNa-MRI) is a non-invasive technique which has considerable potential for measuring Tissue Sodium Concentration (TSC) changes in pathological brain tissue states such as ...