Civil Structural & Environ Eng: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Simulating a Transition to Autonomous Mobility
(2021)This study examined the transition from Traditional Vehicles (TVs) to Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) using microsimulation modelling approaches. For this purpose, the study first optimised the parameters of human driving ... -
Transitioning to low carbon and sustainable mobility
(2020)This report presents an investigation of existing evidence from academic research and international case studies to assess the suitability of available options and mechanisms to achieve a transition ... -
A Comparison of Soil Structure Interaction Models for Dynamic Analysis of Offshore Wind Turbines
(2020)This paper compares the dynamic response of an OWT structure where the below ground pile-soil behaviour is modelled using (i) the conventional API ‘p-y’ approach and (ii) the ‘PISA’ approach. A nonlinear aero-elastic code ... -
Briefing: Specific gravity of solids relationship with ignition loss for peaty soils
(2020)Peaty soils have an extremely high water content and a low specific gravity of solids (Gs) compared with most inorganic soils. Accurate knowledge of the Gs value allows void ratio computations for given water contents and ... -
Geotechnical properties of compacted biosolids for monofill design, As-Samra, Jordan
(2020)This paper presents the results of a comprehensive geotechnical laboratory testing for the assessment and design of a proposed biosolid monofill facility at the As-Samra Waste Water Treatment Plant (WWTP) in Jordan. Previous ... -
Barriers to Sustainable Transport in Ireland
(Environmental Protection Agency, 2011)This synthesis report provides an overview of the findings from the Assessing the Barriers to SustainableTransport in Ireland project and distils the conclusions outlined in the End of Project Report. The purpose of this ... -
Greening Transport: Final Report
(2020)The vision of the Greening Transport project was to merge the technical evaluation of emissions from transport, and improvements in their calculation, with an assessment of the behavioural changes needed to realise reductions ... -
Examining transport needs in the Global South using a screening framework
(2020)Despite the increasing emphasis on the social aspects of transport externalities in the global agenda of public policies (UN, 2016), transport appraisals (ex-ante) are still strongly driven by economic and environmental ... -
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 ... -
Stabilization of sand with colloidal nano-silica hydrosols
(2020)Colloidal nano-silica (NS) hydrosols are electrochemically stabilized, polymerized amorphous silica in low viscosity solutions, and in the form of hydrated gels, silica globules or pellicles.Compared to applications ... -
Drone image segmentation using machine and deep learning for mapping Irish bog vegetation communities
(2020)The application of drones has recently revolutionised the mapping of wetlands due to their high spatial resolution and the flexibility in capturing images. In this study, the drone imagery was used to map key vegetation ... -
Examining public acceptance of autonomous mobility
(2020)Over the last decade, the technology adopted for the automation of transportation has advanced at a pace that now the emergence of Autonomous Vehicles (AV’s) might not be as far away as it was thought a few years ago. ... -
Tuned mass-damper-inerter (TMDI) for suppressing edgewise vibrations of wind turbine blades
(2020)This paper proposes the use of a tuned mass-damper-inerter (TMDI) for the mitigation of edgewise blade vibrations in wind turbines. The hollow nature of the wind turbine blades is utilized to install a TMDI at a location ... -
Potential of a low-calcium fly ash (FA) for the production of alkali-activated materials
(2020)Coal-FA from power stations is an industrial waste abundantly produced in the world. FA can be used asa silicate precursor, and activated with an alkali-metal source to produce alkali-activated materials (AAMs).AAMs are ... -
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 ... -
Improving internal erosion resistance of silty sand using additives
(2020)Seepage-induced erosion, leading to piping, is one of the most common causes of failure for earth dykes, levees and dams. Various soil improvement (mixing) technologies can be employed to improve the internal erosion ... -
A finite-strain hyperviscoplastic model and undrained triaxial tests of peat
(2017)This paper presents a finite-strain hyperviscoplastic constitutive model within a thermodynamically consistent framework for peat which was categorised as a material with both rate-dependent and thermodynamic equilibrium ... -
Determination of soil permeability coefficient following an updated grading entropy method
(2020)This paper presents a critical review of the grading entropy approach of permeability-coefficient predictions (k P) for coarse-grained soils. The approach applies the grading entropy theory to particle-size distributions ...
