Civil Structural & Environ Eng (Theses and Dissertations): Recent submissions
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Characterisation of Microbial Biomat Development in Soil Treatment Units Receiving Domestic Effluent
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Disc of Civil Structural & Environmental Eng, 2024)Soil treatment units are an essential part on on-site wastewater treatment system. In Ireland there are approximately 500,000 on-site wastewater treatment systems with 87% configured as a septic tank followed by a soil ... -
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 ... -
Wind Field Simulation and Fluid-Structure Interaction in Wind Farms
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Disc of Civil Structural & Environmental Eng, 2023)Wind energy as a renewable source has been a topic of immense interest over the past few decades. It is a well known fact that the wake structure influences the performance and operation of the wind turbines located further ... -
An Investigation into the Aspiration Efficiency of Building Ventilation System Inlets for Reducing Energy Consumption in Air Filtration Systems
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Disc of Civil Structural & Environmental Eng, 2023)The built environment has been widely recognised as one of the largest energy consumers in the modern world, negatively impacting the environment and contributing to climate change. A disaggregation of the energy consuming ... -
Short-term wind power forecasting: standardization, evaluation and optimization of prediction uncertainty
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Disc of Civil Structural & Environmental Eng, 2022)This thesis reports on research aimed at enhancing our understanding on wind power forecasting by investigating and proposing standards to evaluate such forecasts, quantifying the main sources of forecast error, and ... -
Smart Control and Energy Recovery of Pump-As-Turbines in Water Networks using Model Predictive Control
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Disc of Civil Structural & Environmental Eng, 2022)This masters dissertation explores the potential of maximizing power production in Pump As Turbines using Model Predictive Control. Pump As Turbines are pumps operating in reverse mode. They are proposed to be installed ... -
Dynamic response of Spar-type Floating Offshore Wind
Floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) are an alternative technology to harness the abundant wind energy in open sea areas. A FOWT structure consists of a floating platform, a mooring system, and a wind turbine structure ... -
Optimal Control Algorithms for Wave Energy Conversion
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Disc of Civil Structural & Environmental Eng, 2022)The aim of this thesis is to design control strategies with the objective of power maximization for point absorber (PA) type of wave energy converter (WEC) devices, considering non-linearities and physical limitations ...