Lectures have ended, exams have been sat, and students have cried with joy and sorrow… So my work is done for the year! But to keep the spirits up, here’s a scene from A Few Good Structural Engineers:
Engineer:
You want answers?
Architect:
I think I’m entitled to them.
Engineer:
You want answers?
Architect:
I want the truth!!
Engineer:
You can’t handle the truth! Son, [...]
The paper Characteristic traffic load effects from a mixture of loading events on short to medium span bridges has been published in Structural Safety at last. It was first submitted in June 2005 and eventually made available online in April 2007. So I’m delighted that it has eventully been given some page numbers! It has [...]
Research into bridge loading applies existing science and techniques to solve what is quite obviously a practical problem. Even so, I’m often asked what good is the research, and “sure isn’t that all known about already?”. Those involved in pure blue-skies research must have it much worse than I do. In reading Petr Beckman’s A [...]
My PhD thesis is available for download as a pdf here (18.7 MB). It’s called
Probabilistic Analysis of Highway Bridge Traffic Loading
and generally does exactly what it says on the tin. I carried out he work under the supervision of Prof. Eugene O’Brien at University College Dublin, and I was examined by Prof. Enrique Castillo of [...]