RSS 1.0Civil Structural & Environ Eng (Theses and Dissertations)
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Incentivising Car-shedding Behaviour in the Greater Dublin Area
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Disc of Civil Structural & Environmental Eng, 2018)This doctoral research examines the behavioural response of commuters within the Greater Dublin Area (GDA), Ireland, to a range of policy incentives devised to encourage travellers to make greater usage of sustainable ... -
Resilience of Traffic Networks to Extreme Weather Events: Analysis and Assessment
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Disc of Civil Structural & Environmental Eng, 2018)The increment of extreme weather events is creating larger, and more frequent problems among infrastructure systems worldwide. In this thesis, the focus is on traffic networks by the analysis of a recent concept, the ... -
Active strategies with TMDs for control of wind turbine vibrations
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, 2012)This thesis investigates the use of active structural control techniques for the mitigation of the dynamic response of wind turbines with particular emphasis on reducing the in-plane (edgewise) vibrations in wind turbine ... -
The effect of prestress force magnitude and eccentricity on natural bending frequencies of prestressed concrete structures
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, 2016)The effect of prestress force magnitude on the natural bending frequencies of prestressed concrete structures is something widely debated in literature to date. It has major implications for the dynamic design and accurate ... -
The thermo-hygrometric environment in cathedrals in Ireland
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Disc of Civil Structural & Environmental Eng, 2018)Research was carried out into the often conflicting concepts of thermal comfort, conservation of artefacts and preservation of the 57 active cathedral buildings on the island of Ireland. Whilst the use to which these ...
