Browsing University of Galway Theses by Title
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Experimental and finite element investigations of the serviceability behaviour of CLT floors
(NUI Galway, 2020-02-06)Global environmental concerns with regard to sustaining our growing population is prompting the building community worldwide to increase urban density, while using optimised and sustainable resources. The traditional ... -
Experimental and modelling studies of natural gas and gasoline surrogate blends
(NUI Galway, 2023-03-09)Combustors rely heavily on fossil and/or bio-derived fuels that all produce significant quantities of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Hence, the successful development of advanced combustors requires predictive chemical ... -
An experimental and modelling study of selected oxygenated biofuels
(2014-10-13)Detailed chemical kinetic models are useful tools for the development of more efficient combustion systems. These models require validation of the elementary kinetics used in order for them to be accurate and reliable. ... -
An experimental and modelling study of the combustion of oxygenated hydrocarbons
(2014-03-19)A chemical kinetic mechanism for the combustion of acetone has been developed and compared with a range of experimental data from the literature and with species concentration profiles measured in this study in the Princeton ... -
An Experimental and Modelling Study of the Oxidation of n-Propylbenzene Over a Wide Range of Temperatures and Pressures and its Comparison with n-Butylbenzene
(2013-04-05)This study presents an experimental and modeling investigation of the ignition of n-propylbenzene and a mixture of n-propylbenzene and n-heptane. This mixture was chosen to represent a surrogate for n-decylbenzene a common ... -
Experimental and numerical characterisation of materials for biomass co-firing
(2017-02-23)As Europe continues to decarbonize its electricity generation capacity, operators of thermal power plants face challenges to which they must adapt including increasingly transient operation and co-firing with biomass. This ... -
Experimental characterisation and computational constitutive modelling of high temperature degradation in 9Cr steels including microstructural effects
(2016-04-20)The transition from base-load to intermittent power plant operation has led to the requirement for increased knowledge and more accurate prediction of the effects of flexible loading on plant components. This thesis is ... -
Experimental characterisation, computational modelling and design tool development for fretting fatigue and wear in flexible marine risers
(2017-09-25)Fretting is a key concern in the fatigue design of the pressure armour layer of flexible marine risers, due to the combination of extreme global dynamic loading conditions and the local geometrical-tribological conditions ... -
Experimental development and modelling of a novel auxiliary power unit for heavy trucks
(2017-09-26)This thesis identifies the key technical requirements for a heavy truck auxiliary power unit (APU) and explores a potential alternative technology for use in a next-generation APU that could eliminate key problems related ... -
Experimental Investigation of the Response of Osteoblasts to Static and Dynamic Loading using a Modified Atomic Force Microscope
(2013-02-07)Cells and tissues continuously experience mechanical loading during daily activity. However, the mechanisms by which cells respond to mechanical stimuli are poorly understood. The focus of this thesis is to develop atomic ... -
An experimental investigation on the biomechanics of bone fragility in type 2diabetes
(NUI Galway, 2023-10-11)Type 2 diabetic patients experience up to a 3-fold increase in bone fracture risk. Paradoxically, type 2 diabetes is associated with a normal or increased bone mineral density (BMD) when compared to non-diabetic patients. ... -
Experimental investigations of driven cast-in-situ piles
(2014-08-29)The prediction of displacement pile capacity in sand is hampered by the extreme changes in stress which occur in the immediate vicinity of the pile during installation (Randolph 2003). High quality instrumented tests on ... -
Experimental studies of simple hydrocarbons in a shock tube
(NUI Galway, 2020-09-24)Chemical kinetic models are needed to simulate fuel chemistry in combustion devices and to aid in the development of new designs to reduce harmful emissions and maximize combustor performance. However, these models need ... -
Explicit computations of Ask Zeta functions
(NUI Galway, 2022-09-12)This thesis is devoted to the study of a particular type of zeta function: ask zeta functions associated with modules of matrices. These zeta functions are obtained by averaging over the sizes of the kernels of matrices ... -
Exploiting homogeneous oxacillin resistance in methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus to Identify novel anti-virulence therapeutic targets
(2017-06-08)The number of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections have continued to increase in recent years and have drawn global concern to the potential future of living in a post-antibiotic era. These infections are of major ... -
Exploiting individual agent properties for analysis and control of collective network evolution
(NUI Galway, 2021-02-24)In this thesis, we investigate linearly coupled dynamic networks made up of identical oscillators. We study the principles in which the dynamical features of the underlying constituent agents transfer to the collective ... -
Exploiting RDFS and OWL for Integrating Heterogeneous, Large-Scale, Linked Data Corpora
(2011-03-11)The Web contains a vast amount of information on an abundance of topics, much of which is encoded as structured data indexed by local databases. However, these databases are rarely interconnected and information reuse ... -
Exploration algorithms for discoverable and undiscoverable decentralised online social networks
(NUI Galway, 2021-12-09)Decentralised online social networks (DOSNs) are a solution to privacy and security problems encountered in online social networks. In DOSNs, a user controls their data and chooses personal storage for their social network ... -
An exploration of early intervention for preschool children with additional needs in the family support context
(NUI Galway, 2023-10-09)Early intervention for young children with additional needs is an important area of policy and practice in the Irish context. While there is strong evidence suggesting the importance of early intervention for this cohort, ... -
An exploration of perceptions of school readiness
(2017-03-31)Ireland falls behind many international countries in relation to school readiness research. The rationale behind this study arises from the lack of research in this area and the increasing investment and focus on the 3-6 ...