Civil Structural & Environ Eng (Theses and Dissertations)
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Assessment and mitigation of human's exposure to microplastics (MPs) from biodegradable plastics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Disc of Civil Structural & Environmental Eng, 2024)Plastic waste and pollution have become a global environmental challenge due to their detrimental impacts on the environment, ecosystems, and human health. Since 1950s, plastic waste, particularly single-use plastics, has ... -
Concrete façade panels with enhanced thermal energy storage capacity
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Disc of Civil Structural & Environmental Eng, 2024)The escalating global climate change crises is motivating governments to seek solutions for reducing non-renewable energy consumption. Buildings are responsible for more than 40% of the total global energy consumption and ... -
Improved Perceptions of Autonomous Vehicles In Urban Mobility Environment Through Deep learning Object Detection Algorithms
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Disc of Civil Structural & Environmental Eng, 2024)Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) or self-driving cars have become the most exciting area of research in the field of transportation in the last decade. Implementation of AVs in real-world requires further investigation especially ... -
The stability of fully and partially embedded beam-columns in elastic Winkler foundations
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, 1996)The stability, in terms of the buckling load, of fully and partially embedded piles that are supported laterally along their embedded length by an elastic Winkler foundation is investigated. Exact solutions are presently ... -
Large scale compound parabolic concentrator for building integrated façade
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Disc of Civil Structural & Environmental Eng, 2023)This thesis presents the design, fabrication, performance and analysis of two façade integrated compound parabolic concentrator (CPC) for two different locations: Ferrara, Italy and Mayo Ireland. The research involves ...