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Blockchain and lean construction: an exploration of bidirectional synergies and interactions (2023)
Journal Article
Kifokeris, D., & Tezel, A. (2023). Blockchain and lean construction: an exploration of bidirectional synergies and interactions. Architectural Engineering and Design Management, https://doi.org/10.1080/17452007.2023.2263873

Blockchain is a form of digital distributed ledger, referring to databases decentralized across numerous users, facilitating peer-to-peer transactions by eliminating or reducing the need for intermediaries to conduct, validate, or authenticate them.... Read More about Blockchain and lean construction: an exploration of bidirectional synergies and interactions.

Integration of Blockchain and Digital Twins in the Smart Built Environment Adopting Disruptive Technologies—A Systematic Review (2023)
Journal Article
Sadri, H., Yitmen, I., Tagliabue, L. C., Westphal, F., Tezel, A., Taheri, A., & Sibenik, G. (2023). Integration of Blockchain and Digital Twins in the Smart Built Environment Adopting Disruptive Technologies—A Systematic Review. Sustainability, 15(4), Article 3713. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15043713

The integration of blockchain and digital twins (DT) for better building-lifecycle data management has recently received much attention from researchers in the field. In this respect, the adoption of enabling technologies such as artificial intellige... Read More about Integration of Blockchain and Digital Twins in the Smart Built Environment Adopting Disruptive Technologies—A Systematic Review.

Assessment of the Posttunneling Safety Factor of Piles under Drained Soil Conditions (2020)
Journal Article
Marshall, A. M., Franza, A., & Jacobsz, S. W. (2020). Assessment of the Posttunneling Safety Factor of Piles under Drained Soil Conditions. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 146(9), Article 04020097. https://doi.org/10.1061/%28ASCE%29GT.1943-5606.0002348

The need to tunnel closely beneath piles is increasing due to the development of urban areas. This poses a risk to the stability and serviceability of overlying structures (e.g., buildings, piers, and piled embankments). The impact of tunneling on pi... Read More about Assessment of the Posttunneling Safety Factor of Piles under Drained Soil Conditions.

Reconciling Gaussian plume and Computational Fluid Dynamics models of particulate dispersion (2020)
Journal Article
Joseph, G. M. D., Hargreaves, D., & Lowndes, I. S. (2020). Reconciling Gaussian plume and Computational Fluid Dynamics models of particulate dispersion. Atmospheric Environment: X, 5, Article 100064. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aeaoa.2020.100064

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is increasingly used to model particulate dispersion in situations where Gaussian Dispersion models are inappropriate or inaccurate. However, there is evidence which indicates that many CFD models under-predict l... Read More about Reconciling Gaussian plume and Computational Fluid Dynamics models of particulate dispersion.

A fully coupled computational framework for fluid pressurised crack evolution in porous media (2019)
Journal Article
Hardcastle, A., Mousavi Nezhad, M., Rezania, M., Tizani, W., & Gamage Ranjith, P. (2019). A fully coupled computational framework for fluid pressurised crack evolution in porous media. Journal of Porous Media, 22(8), 939-956. https://doi.org/10.1615/jpormedia.2019025665

This paper presents a computational framework for modelling hydraulic fracture on the basis of combining continuum porous media and damage theories. By considering the continuum as two separate domains of damaged and intact porous domains, model comp... Read More about A fully coupled computational framework for fluid pressurised crack evolution in porous media.

An industry-inspired civil engineering curriculum (2019)
Journal Article
Turnbull, B. (2020). An industry-inspired civil engineering curriculum. Proceedings of the ICE - Civil Engineering, 173(2), 91-95. https://doi.org/10.1680/jcien.19.00012

This article describes the design of an undergraduate civil engineering curriculum that uses industry approaches to personal professional development and problem-based learning to educate the graduates that industry needs. The new curriculum is struc... Read More about An industry-inspired civil engineering curriculum.

Influence of encapsulated sunflower oil on the mechanical and self-healing properties of dense-graded asphalt mixtures (2019)
Journal Article
Norambuena-Contreras, J., Liu, Q., Zhang, L., Wu, S., Yalcin, E., & Garcia, A. (2019). Influence of encapsulated sunflower oil on the mechanical and self-healing properties of dense-graded asphalt mixtures. Materials and Structures, 52(4), https://doi.org/10.1617/s11527-019-1376-3

This paper re-evaluates the effect of sunflower oil capsules on the mechanical and self-healing properties of dense-graded asphalt mixtures. Different percentages of capsules (0.50wt.%, 0.75wt.% and 1.00wt.%) were mixed into dense asphalt. The influe... Read More about Influence of encapsulated sunflower oil on the mechanical and self-healing properties of dense-graded asphalt mixtures.

Application of Building Information Modelling in a tunnelling project and a data exchange with a process controlling software (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Hegemann, F., Stascheit, J., Maidl, U., & Nini?, J. (2019). Application of Building Information Modelling in a tunnelling project and a data exchange with a process controlling software. In Underground Construction Prague 2019

Building Information Modelling (BIM) is already well known and accepted in the construction of buildings. There are initiatives and pilot projects to also apply BIM for infrastructure projects such as tunnels. However, due the different conditions in... Read More about Application of Building Information Modelling in a tunnelling project and a data exchange with a process controlling software.

Drive-by scour monitoring of railway bridges using a wavelet-based approach (2019)
Journal Article
Fitzgerald, P. C., Malekjafarian, A., Cantero, D., OBrien, E. J., & Prendergast, L. J. (2019). Drive-by scour monitoring of railway bridges using a wavelet-based approach. Engineering Structures, 191, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engstruct.2019.04.046

This paper numerically investigates the feasibility of using bogie acceleration measurements from a passing train to detect the presence of bridge scour. The Continuous Wavelet Transform is used to process the simulated acceleration measurements for... Read More about Drive-by scour monitoring of railway bridges using a wavelet-based approach.

Computationally efficient simulation in urban mechanised tunnelling based on multi-level BIM models (2019)
Journal Article
Ninic, J., Bui, H., Koch, C., & Meschke, G. (2019). Computationally efficient simulation in urban mechanised tunnelling based on multi-level BIM models. Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, 33(3), https://doi.org/10.1061/%28ASCE%29CP.1943-5487.0000822

The design of complex underground infrastructure projects involves various empirical, analytical or numerical models with different levels of complexity. The use of simulation models in current state-of-the-art tunnel design process can be cumbersome... Read More about Computationally efficient simulation in urban mechanised tunnelling based on multi-level BIM models.