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 (38 [...]
Rather than having to download the full 18.7 MB, this re-vamped section of the website outlines the research carried out for my PhD. The abstract is here, which gives a brief outline whilst a little more information on the particular aspects of the problem are outlined here.
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 (35 hits) at University College Dublin (46 hits), and I was [...]