Civil Structural & Environ Eng (Scholarly Publications): Recent submissions
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Plasmonic Interaction in Enhanced Luminescent Down-Shifting Layers for Photovoltaic Devices
(Nova Science Publishers, 2017)Harvesting solar energy has the potential to reduce carbon emissions and to provide clean energy contributing to sustainable development. Most photovoltaic (PV) research to date has focused on achieving higher PV conversion ... -
Enhancement in Solar Cells Efficiency by Luminescent Down-Shifting layers
(2013)In this paper, core-shell semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) CdSeS/ZnS with emission at 490 nm and 450 nm were investigated for their use in luminescent down-shifting (LDS) layers. Luminescent quantum yield ... -
Wavelet‐based individual blade pitch control for vibration control of wind turbine blades
(2019)This paper proposes a novel individual blade pitch control strategy with the objective of reducing blade vibration. A wavelet linear quadratic regulator (LQR) control algorithm, which is an advanced modification of the ... -
On the calculation of offshore wind turbine load spectra for fatigue design
(2018)The present work researches on the definition of the load spectra used for offshore wind turbine low SN slope materials’ fatigue design. Uncertainty in the sample sized used to scale fatigue life is analyzed for the tower ... -
Surrogate infill criteria for operational fatigue reliability analysis
(2018)Analysis of Offshore Wind Turbine (OWT) fatigue damage is an intense, resource demanding task. While the current methodologies to design OWT to fatigue are quite limited in the way and amount of uncertainty they can ... -
On the suitability of the Generalised Pareto to model extreme waves
(2018)Dealing with extreme events implies working with events that have low probability of occurrence. To characterize these, the peak-over-threshold method alongside the generalized Pareto distribution is commonly applied. ... -
Reappraisal of soil extrusion for geomechanical characterisation
(2019)Reverse extrusion has been promoted over the past four decades for remoulded undrained shear strength (s u) measurement and consistency-limit determinations. The technique employs a uniaxial-compression test machine to set ... -
Fallacy of wide undrained strength range at the Casagrande liquid limit
(2019)The liquid limit (LL), as originally proposed by Atterberg, is notionally the water content below which fine-grained soil ceases to flow as a liquid. In many countries, the Casagrande-cup approach is the standard procedure ... -
Demonstrating Learning in Action in a Water and Energy Smart Specialisation Cluster
(2018)The Energy and Water sectors crave innovation. The sectors also exhibit clusters of firms which interact in developing innovations. We explore how demonstrating learning in a cluster facilitates innovation. The paper is ... -
Probabilistic sensitivity analysis of offshore wind turbines using a transformed Kullback-Leibler divergence
(2019)Characterizing uncertainty in complex systems is steadily growing as a topic of interest. One of the efficient ways to characterize a complex system is achieved by probabilistic sensitivity analysis. In the context of this ... -
Adaptive Kriging with biased randomisation for reliability analysis of complex limit state functions
(2019)The present paper researches an innovative approach in the application of meta-modelling for reliability analysis. It consists in the usage of a priori knowledge about the problem being analysed in order to improve the ... -
Vibration control of spar-type floating offshore wind turbine towers using a tuned mass-damper-inerter
(2019)This paper investigates the use of a passive tuned mass‐damper‐inerter (TMDI) for vibration control of spar‐type floating offshore wind turbine towers. The TMDI is a relatively new concept as a passive vibration control ... -
Repair and Conservation of the Four Courts Dome
(2018)The Four Courts was built between 1786 and 1802. Fire events, the 1922 civil war, pollution and exposure have damaged the building’s fabric. A conservation project by the Office of Public Works focussed on the dome, an ... -
Effectiveness of draught reduction measures at improving building air-tightness
(2018)The building sector has a serious detrimental impact on the environment and reducing building energy requirements is an important environmental priority. Draughts (unmanaged air infiltration and exfiltration in buildings) ... -
Thermal performance and fitness of glacial till for Rammed Earth construction
(2019)The search for sustainability caused a revival of earth construction. Rammed earth (RE) construction is often preferred as compaction and stabilization leads to stronger, more consistent materials. Tills are glacial ... -
Modelling the potential benefits increased active travel
(2019)This research examines the behavioural response of commuters within the Greater Dublin Area (GDA), Ireland, to a range of policy incentives designed to encourage travellers to make greater use of sustainable travel modes ... -
Poverty and transport in the Global South: An Overview
(2019)The primary objective of the United Nations Development Programme to 2030 is to lift more than 736 million people out of extreme poverty (UN, 2019). In this sense, this paper addresses the potential contributions of transport ... -
Monitoring environmental supporting conditions of a raised bog using remote sensing techniques
(2018)Conventional methods of monitoring wetlands and detecting changes over time can be time-consuming and costly. Inaccessibility and remoteness of many wetlands is also a limiting factor. Hence, there is a growing recognition ...
