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The research publications I have been involved in are below. Where it is permissible I will be making the paper available or giving links through to the appropriate sites.

Journals – Published

    1. Caprani, C.C., González, A., Rattigan, P.H. and OBrien, E.J. (2012), ‘Assessment dynamic ratio for traffic loading on bridges’, Structure and Infrastructure Engineering, 8(3), pp. 295-304. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15732471003667645 (190 hits).
    2. Caprani, C.C., OBrien, E.J. (2010), ‘The Use of Predictive Likelihood to Estimate the Distribution of Extreme Bridge Traffic Load Effect’, Structural Safety, Vol. 32(2), March, pp. 138-144. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.strusafe.2009.09.001 (366 hits).
    3. González, A., Rattigan, P.H., OBrien, E.J. and Caprani, C.C. (2008), ‘Determination of bridge lifetime dynamic amplification factor using finite element analysis of critical loading scenarios’, Engineering Structures, 30(9), September, pp. 2330-2337. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.engstruct.2008.01.017 (296 hits).
    4. Caprani, C.C., OBrien, E.J. and McLachlan, G.J. (2008), ‘Characteristic traffic load effects from a mixture of loading events on short to medium span bridges’, Structural Safety, Vol. 30(5), September, pp. 394-404. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.strusafe.2006.11.006 (214 hits)
    5. OBrien, E.J., Caprani, C.C. and O’Connell, G. (2006), ‘Bridge assessment loading: a comparison of west and central/east Europe’, Journal of Bridge Structures, Vol. 2, No. 1, March, pp. 25-33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15732480600578451 (179 hits).
    6. OBrien, E.J. and Caprani, C.C. (2005), ‘Headway modelling for traffic load assessment of short- to medium-span bridges’, The Structural Engineer, Vol 83, No. 16, August, pp. 33-36. http://www.istructe.org/thestructuralengineer/HC/Abstract.asp?PID=5494 (91 hits)

      Journals – Accepted

        1. Caprani, C.C. (2012), ‘Calibration of a congestion load model for highway bridges using traffic microsimulation’, Structural Engineering International, in print. preview (No click)

          Journals - Submitted

            1. Caprani, C.C., Keogh, J., Archbold, P. and Fanning, P. (2011), ‘Enhancement factors for the vertical response of footbridges subjected to stochastic crowd loading’, Computers & Structures, awaiting final decision. preview (No click).
            2. Lipari, A, Caprani, C.C., OBrien, E.J. (2012), ‘Accuracy of Congested Density Estimates from Point Detectors’, Proceedings of the ICE – Transport, awaiting final decision.preview.

              Major International Conferences

                1. Caprani, C.C., Enright, B. and Carey, C. (2012), ‘Lane changing control to reduce traffic load effect on long-span bridges’, International Conference on Bridge Maintenance, Safety and Management, IABMAS, Lake Como, Italy, July.
                2. Keogh, J., Caprani C.C., Archbold P. and Fanning, P. (2012), ‘Reliability analysis of footbridge serviceability considering crowd loading’, International Conference on Bridge Maintenance, Safety and Management, IABMAS, Lake Como, Italy, July.
                3. McCarthy, L. and Caprani, C.C. (2012), ‘Reliability analysis of highway bridge structures considering ultimate load effects’, International Conference on Bridge Maintenance, Safety and Management, IABMAS, Lake Como, Italy, July.
                4. Renehan, N. and Caprani, C.C. (2012), ‘A live load control procedure for long-span bridges’, International Conference on Bridge Maintenance, Safety and Management, IABMAS, Lake Como, Italy, July.
                5. Lipari, A., OBrien, E.J. and Caprani C.C. (2012), ‘A comparative study of bridge traffic load effect using micro-simulation and Eurocode load models’, International Conference on Bridge Maintenance, Safety and Management, IABMAS, Lake Como, Italy, July.
                6. Caprani, C.C., Lipari, A. and OBrien, E.J. (2012), ‘Load effect of multi-lane traffic simulations on long-span bridges’, International Conference on Bridge Maintenance, Safety and Management, IABMAS, Lake Como, Italy, July.
                7. Enright, B., Carey, C., Caprani, C.C. (2012), ‘The Effect of Lane Changing on Long-Span Highway Bridge Traffic Loading’, International Conference on Bridge Maintenance, Safety and Management, IABMAS, Lake Como, Italy, July.
                8. Archbold, P, Keogh, J., Caprani, C.C. and Fanning, P. (2011), ‘A Parametric Study of Pedestrian Vertical Force Models for Dynamic Analysis of Footbridges’, Proceedings of Experimental Vibration Analysis for Civil Engineering Structures, Varenna, Italy, 3-5 October 2011, in print. preview (No click)
                9. Caprani, C.C., Keogh, J., Archbold, P. and Fanning, P. (2011), ‘Characteristic Vertical Response of a Footbridge Due to Crowd Loading’, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Structural Dynamics, EURODYN 2011, Leuven, Belgium, 4-6 July, G. De Roeck, G. Degrande, G. Lombaert, G. Muller (eds.), pp. 978-985 . preview
                10. Caprani, C.C. (2010), ‘Using Microsimulation to Estimate Highway Bridge Traffic Load’, International Conference on Bridge Maintenance, Safety and Management, IABMAS, Philadelphia, USA, July. preview (No click)
                11. Caprani, C.C. and OBrien, E.J. (2009), ‘Estimating Extreme Highway Bridge Traffic Load Effects’, International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability, ICOSSAR ’09, Osaka, Japan. preview
                12. Carey, C., Enright, B. and Caprani, C.C. (2009), ‘The Estimation of Traffic Characteristics for Bridge Loading with the Introduction of Long Combination Vehicles’, Int. Conf. on Computational Structures Technology, Madeira, Portugal.
                13. Caprani, C.C. and OBrien, E.J. (2008), ‘Recent Advances in the Governing Form of Traffic for Bridge Loading’, Civil and Structural Health Monitoring 2, Toarmina, Sicily. preview
                14. O’Brien, E. J., Enright, B., and Caprani, C. C. (2008), ‘Implications of Future Heavier Trucks for Europe’s Bridges’, In: A. Žnidarič, ed. Transport Research Arena Europe 2008, Ljubljana, Slovenia. ZAG, Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering Institute; DDC Consulting and Engineering Ltd; DRC, Road Transportation Research Association of Slovenia. view
                15. Bordallo-Ruiz A., McNally C., OBrien E.J. & Caprani C.C. (2007), “Structural reliability of bridges subject to time dependent deterioration”, Proc. 11th Int. Conf. on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Computing, ed. B.H.V. Topping, Civil-Comp Press, Stirling, Scotland, Paper No. 189, 16 pp. view
                16. Caprani, C.C., OBrien, E.J. (2006), ‘Statistical Computation for Extreme Bridge Traffic Load Effects’, Proc. 8th Int. Conf. on Computational Structures Technology, ed. B.H.V. Topping, Civil-Comp Press, Stirling, Scotland, Paper No. 139, 17 pp. view
                17. Caprani, C.C., OBrien, E.J. (2006), ‘Finding the Distribution of Bridge Lifetime Load Effect by Predictive Likelihood’, 3rd International ASRANet Colloquium, University of Glasgow, UK. view
                18. Enright, B., OBrien, E.J. and Caprani, C.C. (2006), ‘Assessment of Bridge Traffic Loading on Bridges with Multiple Same-Direction Lanes’, 3rd International ASRANet Colloquium, University of Glasgow, UK. view
                19. OBrien, E.J., Caprani, C.C., Žnidarič, A. and Quilligan, M. (2003), ‘Site-specific probabilistic bridge load assessment’, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Current and Future Trends in Bridge Design, Construction and Maintenance, eds. B.I.G. Barr et al., Shanghai, China, Thomas Telford, Sep./Oct., pp. 341-348. view
                20. Caprani, C.C., Grave, S.A., OBrien, E.J. and O’Connor, A.J. (2002), ‘Critical loading events for the assessment of medium span bridges’, Proc. 6th Int. Conf. on Computational Structures Technology, eds. B.H.V. Topping & Z. Bittnar, Civil-Comp Press, Stirling, Scotland, Paper No. 147, 11 pp. view

                  Other Conferences, Seminars, Colloquia and Reports

                    1. Caprani, C.C., OBrien, E.J. and Lipari, A. (2011), ‘Extension of a lane-changing model to a micro-simulation tool’, Proceedings of the Irish Transportation Research Network 2011, ITRN2011, 31 August-1 September, Cork, in print.
                    2. OBrien, E.J., Lipari, A. and Caprani, C.C. (2011), ‘Estimation of density and gaps in congested traffic’, Proceedings of the Irish Transportation Research Network 2011, ITRN2011, 31 August-1 September, Cork, in print.
                    3. Caprani, C.C. (2010), ‘Estimating extreme load effect from a combination of traffic states’, Proceedings of 5th Symposium on Bridge and Infrastructure Research in Ireland, Cork, in print.
                    4. Caprani, C.C., Carey, C. and Enright, B. (2010), ‘A new congested traffic load model for highway bridges’, Proceedings of 5th Symposium on Bridge and Infrastructure Research in Ireland, Cork, in print.
                    5. Keogh, J., Archbold, P., Caprani, C.C. and Fanning, P. (2010), ‘Estimating the characteristic vertical response of a flexible footbridge due to crowd loading’, Proceedings of 5th Symposium on Bridge and Infrastructure Research in Ireland, Cork, in print.
                    6. Lipari, A., Caprani, C.C. and OBrien, E.J. (2010), ‘Load effect of single-lane traffic simulations on long span bridges’, Proceedings of 5th Symposium on Bridge and Infrastructure Research in Ireland, Cork, in print.
                    7. Caprani, C.C. and OBrien, E.J. (2008), ‘The governing form of traffic for highway bridge loading’, Proceedings of 4th Symposium on Bridge and Infrastructure Research in Ireland, eds. E. Cannon, R. West and P. Fanning, National University of Ireland, Galway, pp. 53-60. view
                    8. Caprani, C.C. and Rattigan, P.H. (2006), ‘Bridge traffic loading: the implications of some recent findings’, Third National Symposium on Bridge and Infrastructure Engineering in Ireland, eds. N.A. Ni Nuallain, A. O’Connor and K. Gavin, Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin, pp. 131-138. view
                    9. OBrien, E.J., Gonzalez, A., Caprani, C.C., Li, Y., Rattigan, P.H. and Harris, N. (2006), ‘Bridge dynamics and loading’, Keynote Paper, Third National Symposium on Bridge and Infrastructure Engineering in Ireland, eds. N.A. Ni Nuallain, A. O’Connor and K. Gavin, Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin, pp. 347-358. view
                    10. Bordallo-Ruiz, A., OBrien, E.J. and Caprani, C.C. (2006), ‘Estimating risk of failure of engineering structures by means of predictive likelihood’, Third National Symposium on Bridge and Infrastructure Engineering in Ireland, eds. N.A. Ni Nuallain, A. O’Connor and K. Gavin, Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin, p. 139, 8 pp. view
                    11. Rattigan, P.H., Gonzalez, A., OBrien, E.J. and Caprani, C.C. (2006), ‘Determination of characteristic bridge DAF using dynamic finite element analysis of critical static loading scenarios’, Third National Symposium on Bridge and Infrastructure Engineering in Ireland, eds. N.A. Ni Nuallain, A. O’Connor and K. Gavin, Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin, pp. 21-28. view
                    12. OBrien, E.J. and Caprani, C.C. (2006), Reply to correspondence on ‘Headway modelling for traffic load assessment of short- to medium-span bridges’, The Structural Engineer, Vol 84, No. 3, February, p. 51. view
                    13. OBrien, E.J., Caprani, C.C. and O’Connell, G. (2006), ‘Dynamic Amplification of Characteristic Lifetime Bridge Load Effect’, SAMARIS Final Report to the European Commission, Deliverable D30, Guidelines for optimised assessment of highway structures, Appendix G. view (93 hits)
                    14. Caprani, C.C. (2005), Probabilistic Analysis of Highway Bridge Traffic Loading, PhD Thesis, School of Architecture, Landscape and Civil Engineering, University College Dublin, Ireland. view
                    15. Caprani, C.C. and OBrien, E.J. (2005), Interim Report on Calculation of Lifetime Dynamic Allowance for Bridge Load Effect, Internal Report to the SAMARIS Working Group on Bridge Loading, Barcelona Meeting, March. view
                    16. Caprani, C.C. (2004), ‘Probabilistic Analysis of Highway Bridge Loading Events’, Proceedings of the Institution of Structural Engineers Young Researchers’ Conference, London. abstract
                    17. O’Connor, A., Caprani, C.C. and Belay, A. (2003), ‘Site-Specific Probabilistic Load Modelling for Bridge Reliability Analysis’, Assessment of Bridges and Highway Infrastructure, ed. E.J. OBrien, Institution of Engineers of Ireland, Dublin, pp. 97-104. view
                    18. A. Belay, A., O’Connor, A. and Caprani, C.C. (2002), ‘Site-specific probabilistic load modelling for bridge reliability analysis’, First Symposium on Bridge Engineering Research in Ireland, eds. C. McNally and S. Brady, University College Dublin, pp. 77-85. view
                    19. Caprani, C.C., Grave, S.A., OBrien, E.J. and O’Connor, A.J. (2002), ‘Critical loading events for the assessment of medium span bridges’, First Symposium on Bridge Engineering Research in Ireland, eds. C. McNally and S. Brady, University College Dublin, pp. 67-76.
                    20. Caprani, C.C. (2002), Programs for the Site-Specific Analysis and Simulation of Free-Flowing Trucks on Bridges, Dept. of Civil Engineering, UCD, Internal Report.

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