An excerpt from Issue 119 of Arup Ireland Technical News Oct 2018

1. Issue 119| October 2018 | Arup Ireland Technical News 2
Lunch and LearnConferences
Salam Al-Sabah
The 2018 Civil Engineering
Research in Ireland conference
(CERI2018) was jointly
organised by the Civil
Engineering Research
Association of Ireland (CERAI)
and the Irish Transportation
Research Network (ITRN). This
year's conference was hosted by
University College Dublin on 29-
30 August.
Along with 8 keynote speakers,
there were 147 full peer-reviewed
technical papers on civil
engineering and transport topics
were presented at the conferences
including:
• Bridge Engineering
• Concrete Technology
• Geotechnical Engineering
• Transportation
• Environmental Engineering
• Structural Engineering
• Pedagogy in Civil
Engineering
It was the largest conference to
date with over 220 people
registered for the conference.
At Arup research is the creation
and sharing of knowledge inspired
by the work we do and the
challenges we face. We use
targeted thinking, analysis and
experimentation to strengthen the
firm, keep us moving forward, and
differentiate us from our
competitors. Research
complements Foresight,
Innovation and Skills. It
identifies the gaps in the global
market and sponsors collaboration
with external partners.
Arup presence was noticeable
with 10 papers covering many
aspects of our work. The papers
addressed Arup way of thinking
and problem solving. The
authors and paper titles are listed
below:
• Ann-Marie Gallagher,
Fergal Cahill: Pavement
Defects at Integral Bridges
– An Irish Perspective
• Cathal Leahy, Stephen
Lynch: Analysis of Traffic
Incidents using Machine
Learning
• Iarfhlaith ó Conchubhair,
Bryan McCabe, Martin J.
Timoney: Laboratory Push-
In Resistance Tests (PIRT)
in a cement-stabilised
pseudo-fibrous peat
• Kerem Pencereci, Rory
McGowan, Aidan Madden:
Development of A Seismic
Risk Mitigation Strategy
For Existing Ready Made
Garment Factories In
Bangladesh
• Negin Yousefpour, Sogol
Fallah: Application of
Machine Learning in
Geotechnics
• Paul Miguel Bernardo,
Reamonn MacReamoinn,
Scott Flynn: Challenges
modelling near field thermal
plumes in the built
environment
• Paul Miguel Bernardo,
Reamonn MacReamoinn,
Philip Cardiff, Jennifer
Keenahan, Patrick Young:
CFD Modelling of
Helicopter Downwash and
Assessment of its impact on
Pedestrian Comfort
• Phoebe Watson, Siegmund
Nuyts, Jimmy Murphy,
Susana Lizondo, Ioannis
Avgeris: Design of
buildings and structures
near the sea: influence of
the wave overtopping forces
• Salam Al-Sabah, Jeremy
Chipperfield, Holger Falter:
A Strut-and-Tie approach in
detailing RC structures
• Shah Nur Alam Sourav,
Salam Al-Sabah, Ciaran
McNally: Statistical
reliability of the screw
pullout test in the
assessment of insitu
concrete strength
The papers can be accessed here.
The CERI2018 conference
proceedings can be found here.
Civil Engineering Research in Ireland, 2018