Civil Structural & Environ Eng: Recent submissions
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Modification, practical application and numerical study of air-cathode microbial fuel cells
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Disc of Civil Structural & Environmental Eng, 2019)Microbial fuel cell (MFC) technology has been attracting great attention recently due to its potential for simultaneously harvesting electric energy, removing pollutants and monitoring organic matter concentration at ... -
Fatigue reliability using a multiple surface approach
(2019)Reliability analysis for offshore wind turbine structural fatigue is an effort demanding task. The new trends in the design of these systems, such as, the usage of alternative computational fluid dynamics or finite element ... -
PISA: New Design Methods for Offshore Wind Turbine Monopiles
(2017)Improved design of laterally loaded monopiles is central to the development of current and future generation offshore wind farms. Previously established design methods have demonstrable shortcomings requiring new ideas and ... -
Phase Change Materials for Solar Energy Applications
(Central West Publishing, 2019)Increasing levels of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and energy dependency on other countries have brought governments to develop and improve various ways of producing energy. There are many different methods of renewable ... -
Cob cylinder's data
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Semi-active vibration control of wind turbine blades using a time-frequency approach
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, 2010)This thesis proposes the use of structural control devices to mitigate the response of wind turbines, particularly the blades. Theoretical and experimental investigations have been carried out to ascertain the effectiveness ... -
Interpolation of confidence intervals for fatigue design using a surrogate model
(2018)For complex systems, the applicability of surrogate models has shown the potential to enable accurate assessments using a reduced batch of data and to compile information about large datasets. These behave as black-box ... -
Measuring the potential emission reductions from a shift towards public transport
(2019)The research presented in this paper investigates the behavioural response and subsequent appraisal of a range of policy incentives devised to encourage greater use of sustainable travel options within the Greater Dublin ... -
Potential of waste materials as pozzolans and their influence on the quality of building materials
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Disc of Civil Structural & Environmental Eng, 2019)This research investigates the properties of industrial and agricultural waste ashes to evaluate their potential as partial substitution for natural aggregates and cement; in an effort to make building materials more ... -
Numerical and Experimental Investigation of the Seismic Performance of Steel Concentrically Braced Frame Structures
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Disc of Civil Structural & Environmental Eng, 2019)The concepts of performance-based earthquake engineering (PBEE) and performance based seismic design (PBSD) emerged after the 1994 Northridge and 1995 Kobe earthquakes, where the level of damage to structures, economic ... -
Environmental geotechnics for peatland management and restoration
(2019)Peatlands are dynamic eco-hydrological wetland systems, increasingly under threat worldwide due to natural and anthropogenic effects, including large-scale drainage and oxidation, causing their subsidence and ... -
Material Characterization of Luminescent Down-Shifting Layers for Solar Cells Application
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Disc of Civil Structural & Environmental Eng, 2019)High energy photons in the UV region are not efficiently used in solar cells and limit the overall efficiency of the cell. Luminescent Down-Shifting (LDS) layers can be used to convert the high energy photons to a lower ... -
Analysis of Offshore Wind Turbines : Probabilistic assessment of operational design
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Disc of Civil Structural & Environmental Eng, 2019)The demand for renewable energy is unquestionable. Global climate trends have been fomenting the urge for renewable, low carbon-footprint technologies. Wind energy is one of the most prominent alternatives to conventional ... -
Micro-Analysis of the Fueling Costs of Electric Vehicles in Consideration of the Range of Options Available to Electric Vehicle Users
(2019)It is common knowledge that the costs of powering electric vehicles (EV) are less than the fuelling costs of internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEV) due to the relative per-unit prices of electricity and gasoline, ... -
Awareness of health impacts of NO2 and, potential responses to diesel vehicle bans and proposals to cease their production
(2019)Evidence of associations between ambient concentrations of NO2 and a range of effects on health has strengthened in recent years. On average, transport is responsible for 40% of NOx emissions influencing ambient NO2 ... -
An evaluation of the potential impacts of traffic management strategies on air pollution, emissions and public health in Dublin.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Disc of Civil Structural & Environmental Eng, 2019)Nowadays, air pollution is a huge threat to human health. It is responsible for 6.4 million premature deaths worldwide per year, which is 72% of the 9 million deaths per year from all types of pollution. Vulnerable groups, ... -
The earthquake-resistance of flush end-plate joints
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, 2002)This thesis investigates the applicability of flush end-plate joints to frames in low-to-moderate seismic zones. Although a great deal of research has been carried out on the use of semi-rigid joints in frames, most of ... -
Confinement in wireball-reinforced concrete members
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, 2002)Modern codes for the earthquake-resistant design of structures rely on the dissipation of seismic energy through deformations of pre-designated plastic hinge regions. In reinforced concrete members, it is of utmost importance ... -
Sleeved concrete cylinders subject to hard impact
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, 2000)The purpose of this thesis is to determine the response of sleeved concrete cylinders to low velocity hard impact. Previous research has shown that, when concrete is uni-axially loaded and subject to the high strain rates ...
