Civil Structural & Environ Eng (Theses and Dissertations): Recent submissions
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Sustainable concrete with solely recycled and by-product constituents
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Disc of Civil Structural & Environmental Eng, 2021)Humans since ancient times have explored their surrounding materials throughout experiments and accumulated experience in the practice of construction, thereby recognizing the characteristics of building materials which ... -
A Hydrogeological Study of Irish Holy wells
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Disc of Civil Structural & Environmental Eng, 2021)The overall aim of the research was to characterise the hydrogeology and water chemistry of Irish holy wells. The first main research task was an analysis of the distribution of Irish holy wells (listed in a national ... -
Wastewater as a thermal resource: Exploitation strategies, design methodologies & prototype development
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Disc of Civil Structural & Environmental Eng, 2020)The disruption of the climate was identified as one of nine planetary boundaries, and is one for which we are reaching the limits of safe operation on this planet. To that effect the European Commission launched the European ... -
Enhances design of offshore wind energy gravity based structure foundations
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Disc of Civil Structural & Environmental Eng, 2020)The offshore wind is set for substantial growth globally in the coming decades. The use of Gravity-based foundations (GBF), although only 3.3% of the current installed fleet is due increase to 8.4% in the coming years. To ... -
Pump-as-turbines for hydropower energy recovery from on-demand irrigation networks: Flow fluctuation characterisation, energy potential extrapolation, and real-scale implementation.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Disc of Civil Structural & Environmental Eng, 2020)More water efficient irrigation techniques have been studied and developed during the last decades, and are becoming of significant importance in arid and semi-arid regions, as these are leading to more energy intensive ... -
A review of the engineering constraints and project management challenges involved in utilising Scot’s Church as a heritage asset through responsible adaptive reuse and conservation strategies
In the field of structural building, there has been a rising popularity in adaptive reuse of older structures, which stems from a variety of stimuli. Apart from preserving built heritage, providing old buildings with new ... -
Metal Nanoparticles for application in Luminescent Solar Concentrators
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Disc of Civil Structural & Environmental Eng, 2020)Rising global temperature calls for innovative ways to deal with the ever-growing energy demand. Luminescent Solar Concentrators (LSC) are low concentration, solar radiation collectors. LSCs have the potential to be used ... -
Transport development and poverty reduction in Northeast Brazil
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Disc of Civil Structural & Environmental Eng, 2020)The recent shift in focus from the income-based to the multidimensional understanding of poverty has revealed that the global goal of ending poverty requires more than isolated and remedial actions. Integrated efforts from ... -
Examining the efficiency of autonomous vehicles in highway transport
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Disc of Civil Structural & Environmental Eng, 2020)This study examined the efficiency of Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) in highway transport. The study focused on the effects that AVs might have on factors associated with the adoption of AVs such as safety, traffic, cost, the ... -
Individual blade pitch control strategies for spar-type floating offshore wind turbines
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Disc of Civil Structural & Environmental Eng, 2020)The aim of this thesis is to study the dynamics of spar-type Floating Offshore Wind Turbines (FOWTs) and investigate the performance of the individual blade pitch control strategies proposed to improve dynamic response of ... -
The impacts of climate change on groundwater recharge in low storativity fractured bedrock aquifers
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Disc of Civil Structural & Environmental Eng, 2020)The ongoing climate change is expected to cause an intensification of the hydrological cycle by enhancing the extreme events, thereby challenging the resilience of the groundwater resources. Additionally, it is well ... -
Hydropower Energy Recovery Systems: Development of Design Methodologies for Pumps As Turbines in Water Networks
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Disc of Civil Structural & Environmental Eng, 2020)Given the urgency of tackling the challenges offered by climate change and natural resource depletion, it is a priority to increase the sustainability of the water industry by reducing its energy demand and associated ... -
Conservation of Earthen Vernacular Architecture in Ireland Study of the Mechanical Properties and the Structural Behaviour of Cob
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Disc of Civil Structural & Environmental Eng, 2020)Cultural heritage is increasingly threatened not only by traditional causes of decay, but also by changing social, economic and environmental conditions. The deterioration or disappearance of any cultural item constitutes ... -
Modelling diffuse groundwater recharge in Irish karst
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Disc of Civil Structural & Environmental Eng, 2020)Karstified carbonate aquifers are highly heterogeneous systems characterised by multiple component porosities and permeabilities. The different porosities are associated with different permeabilities commonly interpreted ... -
3D Modelling Tool to Optimise Advanced Plasmonic Luminescent Solar Devices for Building Integrated Photovoltaic Applications
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Disc of Civil Structural & Environmental Eng, 2019)This research concentrates on modelling and optimisation of a static building integrated PV (BIPV) component in which both direct and diffuse solar radiation are harvested through luminescent solar (LS) devices. Plasmonic ... -
Investigation of Phosphorescent Materials for Photovoltaic Device Applications
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Disc of Civil Structural & Environmental Eng, 2019)Phosphorescence is used in photovoltaic devices by embedding phosphorescence species within a transparent host polymer to absorb ultraviolet solar radiation followed by a slow emission of visible light. Phosphorescent ... -
Interface shear behaviour of precast prestressed concrete beams with slebers webs in beam and slab construction
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Disc of Civil Structural & Environmental Eng, 2019)All over the world precast prestressed concrete bridge beams are commonly used in small to medium sized highway and railway bridges, i.e. 20-50m spans. The majority of these bridges are built using I and U shaped precast ... -
Development and verification of yield surfaces for I-sections
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, 2009)In the design of many building structures for ultimate states the use of interaction equations is quite common. Despite this there is still a need for more advanced and flexible equations which consider all forces in space. ... -
Optimisation of inspection planning for structures
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, 2009)The main aim of this thesis was the development of a maintenance management methodology which incorporates two aspects of a structural inspection, i.e. (i) detection of a defect and (ii) sizing of a defect. Markov transition ... -
A new approach to driving cycle development and its applications
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, 2013)Driving cycles describe the general driving pattern of a vehicle in a road network, and are usually represented by speed-time profiles of equal spacing. They are used to approximate and represent driving conditions as an ...
