Browsing Civil Engineering by Title
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Teaching value engineering as a tool for reinforcing applied creativity in a troubled AEC/FM industry: A case of Zambia
(American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), 2003)Conventional design methods that are taught to Engineers do not always take into account the practical constraints associated with resource availability and costs. For example a proposed community self-help constructed ... -
Temperature profiles of private rental housing occupied by third level students in Ireland
(Civil Engineering Research Assiciation of Ireland (CERAI) and Cork Institute of Technology, 2020-08-27)The Irish Government published a National Student Accommodation Strategy to tackle issues surrounding the availability of accommodation for students in higher education. 23,634 students could not be accommodated with a ... -
Temperature sensing optimization for home thermostat retrofit
(MDPI, 2021-05-26)Most existing residential buildings adopt one single-zone thermostat to control the heating of rooms with different thermal conditions. This solution often provides poor thermal comfort and inefficient use of energy. The ... -
Test machine effect in the determination of modulus of elasticity for strength graded timber
(World Conference on Timber Engineering (WCTE2021), 2021-08-09)This paper investigates if the relationship between the global and local moduli of elasticity (MoE), measured in bending tests, is affected by the test machines employed, and how that may influence strength grading. The ... -
Tide-surge interactions and their effects on total sea levels
(Springer Verlag, 2013-05-08)The research presented in this paper involves the application of the joint probability method to the estimation of extreme water levels resulting from astronomical tides and surge residuals and the investigation of the ... -
Tide-surge interactions and their effects on total sea levels in Irish coastal waters
(Springer, 2013-06)The research presented in this paper involves the application of the joint probability method to the estimation of extreme water levels resulting from astronomical tides and surge residuals and the investigation of the ... -
Timber grading potential of Douglas fir in the Republic of Ireland and the UK
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-05-19)Results of the recently approved machine control grading settings for Douglas fir in the Republic of Ireland and the UK have shown that the species can be graded to C18, and higher strength classes, and while there is a ... -
Towards sustainable water networks: automated fault detection and diagnosis
(Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Center, 2017-03-31)The paper will present an overview of one of the Fault Detection and Diagnosis (FDD) systems developed within the Waternomics project. The FDD system has been developed basing on the hydraulic modeling of the water network, ... -
Traceability protocols for timber construction materials and products
(National University of Ireland Galway, 2022-01)The Innovative Design for the Future Use and Reuse of Wooden building components (InFutUReWood) project aims to examine if secondary wood (wood-salvage) is equally suited for contemporary architecture¿ This report outlines ... -
Training courses and learning material on energy efficient building operation
(SINERGY Consortium, 2022-03-31)The main objective of SINERGY work package 3 is to establish collaboration with strategic partners, i.e. AIT and NUIG,and enable expertise and ¿know-how¿ exchange in the area of smart grids, distributed energy resources, ... -
Transfer learning applied to DRL-Based heat pump control to leverage microgrid energy efficiency
(Elsevier, 2021-09-11)Domestic hot water accounts for approximately 15% of the total residential energy consumption in Europe, and most of this usage happens during specific periods of the day, resulting in undesirable peak loads. The increase ... -
Treatment of dairy wastewater using constructed wetlands and intermittent sand filters
(Bioresource Technology, 2007-06-01)In Ireland, the most common method of disposal of dairy parlour washings is by land spreading. This treatment method has numerous problems, namely high labour requirements and the potential for eutrophication of surface ... -
Treatment of landfill leachate in municipal wastewater treatment plants and impacts on effluent ammonium concentrations.
(Elsevier, 2016-12-05)Landfill leachate is the result of water percolating through waste deposits that have undergone aerobic and anaerobic microbial decomposition. In recent years, increasingly stringent wastewater discharge requirements have ... -
Turbulence modelling using 3DVAR data assimilation in laboratory conditions
(2013)The viability of turbulence parameter estimation in a numerical model using 3DVAR data assimilation technique is explored in this research. Water currents measured in a physical model are assimilated into the numerical ... -
Understanding the complexities of building physics and human behaviour in achieving a nearly zero energy building
(NUI Galway, 2016-07-27)About 40% of the world’s energy consumption and approximately a third of greenhouse gas emissions are associated with buildings. As the percentage of new buildings relative to existing buildings is increasing at a rate ... -
Unsaturated behaviour of a stabilized marine sediment: A comparison of cement and GGBS binders
(Elsevier, 2018-09-21)In order to ascertain the contaminant-encapsulation potential of stabilized soil, an understanding of its unsaturated hydraulic behaviour, specifically the Soil Water Retention Curve (SWRC), is paramount. In this paper, ... -
Use of amendments in a peat soil to reduce phosphorus losses from forestry operations
(Elsevier, 2015-10-18)Forestry harvesting on peats is known to result in significant losses of soil phosphorus (P) to adjacent waters, and the issue is becoming an increasingly serious concern as peatland forest stocks mature and reach harvestable ... -
Use of carbon calculation tools for sustainable cycle network design
(NUI Galway, 2012)In recent years European cycling has undergone a renaissance with various initiatives including the establishment of EuroVelo and the proposed European trans-border cycling infrastructure. Significant advances on this ... -
The use of digital resources in civil engineering education: Enhancing student learning and achieving accreditation criteria.
(2012)The use of digital resources in higher education has risen significantly over the last ten years and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. The challenge for educational instructors is in determining how to ... -
The use of digital resources in civil engineering education: student learning and achieving accreditation criteria
(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012)The use of digital resources in higher education has risen significantly over the last ten years and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. The challenge for educational instructors is in determining how to ...