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Journal Paper Published

4 June, 2008 (16:22) | Engineering, Research | No comments

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 [...]

Why We Research

16 May, 2008 (23:08) | Engineering, Research | No comments

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 [...]

PhD Thesis

10 May, 2008 (04:00) | Engineering, Research | No comments

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 [...]