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A study of the workability of natural hydraulic lime mortars and its influence on strength
(Springer, 2008)Lime mortars are currently used for both repairs to historic buildings and new construction. An important mortar property is workability. Lime mortars are often described as highly workable, however, due to the many ... -
A study of wind-wave misalignment for the Irish coastline and its effect on the wind turbine response
(2022)A wind turbine is one of the largest rotating structures on earth. More wind turbines are now being developed with taller towers and longer blades, making them more flexible. As a result, an offshore wind turbine can ... -
Suitability of a high-calcium slag for alkali activation, and strength and microstructure of the resultant materials.
(2022)We study the feasibility of producing building materials by activating an Irish slag with alkali-metal activators. The slag is highly amorphous and basic (CaO+ MgO/SiO2=1.56), with CaO/SiO2=1.41 and Al2O3/SiO2=0.34 which ... -
Supporting robust and climate-sensitive adaptation strategies for infrastructure networks: A multi-hazard case study on Mozambique's healthcare sector
(2023)As climate change causes more intense and frequent natural hazard events, decision makers are tasked to climate-proof vital infrastructure systems against these challenges. Adaptation studies often evaluate benefits of ... -
Surrogate infill criteria for operational fatigue reliability analysis
(2018)Analysis of Offshore Wind Turbine (OWT) fatigue damage is an intense, resource demanding task. While the current methodologies to design OWT to fatigue are quite limited in the way and amount of uncertainty they can ... -
Surrogate-based reliability analysis for noisy models
(2023)Reliability analysis ultimately aims at estimating the probability of failure of a system. In this context, limit-state functions represent the system performance, i.e., whether it fails or not, and consist of potentially ... -
Sustainability of combined vacuum and surcharge preloading
(ASCE, Reston, VA, USA, 2014)This paper presents a review of combined vacuum consolidation and surcharge preloading which is arguably more sustainable approach to soft-soil ground improvement than other strategies in reducing post-construction ... -
Sustainability potential of risk-informed decisions in structural design
(2023)Structural design codes feature safety concepts that are highly generalized to make them simple and applicable to a large variety of structures at the same time. This leads to structures that are sufficiently safe but where ... -
Sustainable concrete with solely recycled and by-product constituents
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Disc of Civil Structural & Environmental Eng, 2021)Humans since ancient times have explored their surrounding materials throughout experiments and accumulated experience in the practice of construction, thereby recognizing the characteristics of building materials which ... -
Sustainable environmental geotechnics practices for a green economy
(2022)The revitalisation of the global economy after the Covid-19 era presents environmental geotechnics with the opportunity to reinforce the need for a change in paradigm towards a green, circular economy and to promote ... -
Sustainable freight distribution in an historic urban centre
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Sustainable Upgrading of Existing Bridges by Reliability-Based Assessment
(2023)This paper presents recent applications of the Danish guideline for reliability-based assessment for existing bridges, resulting in a traffic load upgrade of up to 60%. The guideline reflects a commitment to consider ... -
Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems in Dublin : a database
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, 2010) -
Symbolic Neural Networks for Surrogate Modeling of Structures
(2023)In order to evaluate urban earthquake resilience, reliable structural modeling is needed. However, detailed modeling of a large number of structures and carrying out time history analyses for sets of ground motions are not ... -
A Systematic Analysis of the Vulnerability of Buildings to Localised Collapse
(Civil-Comp Press, 2009)This paper presents a methodology to assess the extent of damage to a multi-storey structure due to localised collapse. This is accomplished through the design of an algorithm, to track progressive collapse in a structure, ...