Civil Structural & Environ Eng (Theses and Dissertations)
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Ecosystem services and water quality of turloughs, a form of intermittent karst wetland
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Disc of Civil Structural & Environmental Eng, 2023)Ecosystem services (ES) can be defined as the conditions and processes through which natural ecosystems sustain and fulfil human life. These can be classified as provisioning, regulating, and cultural (water and raw material ... -
Assessment of indoor air quality in energy efficient residential buildings in Ireland
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Disc of Civil Structural & Environmental Eng, 2023)Over the last two decades, Europe has witnessed a drive towards building energy efficiency. The EU directive on energy performance of buildings, as implemented in 2002, targeted the improvement in energy efficiency of ... -
DEVELOPMENT OF SUSTAINABLE, ALKALI-ACTIVATED BINDERS FOR CONSTRUCTION
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Disc of Civil Structural & Environmental Eng, 2023)This work contributes to the design and production of alkali-activated materials (AAMs) of lower environmental impact than Portland cement (PC) products. AAM binders result from the reaction of an activator and a precursor. ... -
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 ... -
Hydrological and hydrochemical supporting conditions for Irish calcareous fen vegetation
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Disc of Civil Structural & Environmental Eng, 2023)Calcareous fens are listed in Annex 1 of the European Union (EU) Habitats Directive (Council Directive 92/43/EEC, habitat code 7230, 7210 and 7140) as habitats requiring special conservation measures, including the designation ... -
Assessing the compressive strength and elastic modulus of high-performance GGBS concrete
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Disc of Civil Structural & Environmental Eng, 2022)The mechanical properties of High Performance Concrete are crucial for structural design to achieve expected advantages over conventional concrete. For example, the efficient prefabrication of precast concrete requires ... -
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 ... -
INTEGRATED TRANSPORTATION AND LAND USE REGRESSION MODELLING FOR NO2 MITIGATION
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Disc of Civil Structural & Environmental Eng, 2022)The transport industry has been identified as one of the main contributors to Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) pollution in Ireland. Diesel fuelled vehicles emit significantly greater amounts of NO2 in comparison to any other fuel ... -
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 ... -
The impact of on-site domestic wastewater effluent on karst springs: An evaluation of contamination fingerprinting and tracing techniques
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Disc of Civil Structural & Environmental Eng, 2022)Groundwater from karst aquifers is a major source of drinking water worldwide, but these complex aquifer systems are exceptionally vulnerable to pollution and may be impacted by multiple contamination sources. In rural and ... -
Investigation of Particulate Phosphorus Mobilised by Run-offin Small Agricultural Catchments
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Disc of Civil Structural & Environmental Eng, 2022)Research carried out in this work has contributed valuable insights and new findings into the impact of particulate phosphorus (PP) associated with fluvial suspended sediments, in terms of its sources and speciation dynamics ...