Alan O Connor
Associate Professor
Civil, Structural & Environmental Engineering
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
Biography
Dr. Alan O Connor is an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. He is a Fellow of that institution (FTCD). He is also a Chartered Engineer (CEng) and Fellow of the Institution of Engineers of Ireland (FIEI). He is the Director of Undergraduate Teaching and Learning in the School of Engineering at Trinity College Dublin. He has extensive national/international experience in infrastructural risk analysis and probabilistic safety assessment. He has advised clients such as: Irish Rail, The Irish National Roads Authority, The Danish Roads Directorate; Danish Railways; Swedish Railways; The Norwegian Roads Authority and The Dutch Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management. At Trinity College Dublin, the research group which he leads are focused on investigating: infrastructural asset management and optimised whole life management, cross asset maintenance optimisation, structural health monitoring, wind engineering infrastructure, stochastic modelling of engineering systems, risk analysis of critical infrastructure for extreme weather events and structural reliability analysis. He has authored over 180 peer-reviewed academic papers in these areas. He has delivered Keynote Addresses at international conferences in Europe, the United States and Australia.
Research Interest
Bridge Management Systems; Bridges; Building Construction; Cement and Concrete Chemistry; Civil Engineering; Civil Engineering, Pavements and Structures; Coastal & Ocean Engineering; Concrete Structures; Dams and Earth Structures; Design Engineering; Masonry Engineering; Materials Engineering; Materials, Engineering Properties; Offshore Platforms and Structures; Railway engineering; Steel Structures; Structural Analysis; Structural Design; Structural Engineering; Structural Robustness; Structural Safety; Structure Reliability; Structures; Tunnels; Vehicle Impact
Publications
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Leahy C, OBrien E, O Connor A, The Effect of Traffic Growth on Characteristic Bridge Load Effects, Transportation Research Procedia, 2016, 14, 2016, pp3990 - 3999
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Rui Teixeira, Alan O Connor, Maria Nogal , Comparative Analysis of the Probabilistic Methods to Estimate the Probability of Failure of Offshore Wind Turbine Towers, Civil Engineering Research in Ireland 2016, Galway, Ireland, 29-30 August 2016, 2016
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Martinez-Pastor, B., Nogal, M. and O Connor, A., Bi-Phase Methodology for Sensitivity Analysis of Complex Models, Civil Engineering Research in Ireland (CERI 2016), Galway, Ireland, 2016
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Castillo E, Grande Z, Moraga P, Nogal M, O Connor A.J, Alternate double single track proposals for low demand high-speed railway lines, Civil-Comp Proceedings, 110, 2016
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Castillo E, Grande Z, Calviño A, Nogal M, O Connor A.J, Probabilistic safety analysis of high speed railway lines including human errors, Civil-Comp Proceedings, 110, 2016
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Choine M.N, Kashani M.M, Lowes L.N, O Connor A, Crewe A.J, Alexander N.A, Padgett J.E, Nonlinear dynamic analysis and seismic fragility assessment of a corrosion damaged integral bridge, International Journal of Structural Integrity, 7, (2), 2016, p227 - 239
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Nogal, M., Castillo, E., Calviño A. and O Connor, A., Coherent and compatible statistical models in structural analysis, International Journal of Computational Methods, 13, (2), 2016, p1640008 (18 pages)
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Connolly, L., O Connor, A. and Bowe, C., Monitoring and Maintenance of the Boyne Viaduct, Civil Engineering Research in Ireland (CERI 2016), Galway, Ireland, 2016
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O Connor A., Pedersen C., Enevoldsen I., Application of Probability Based Assessment to Bridges, AUSTROADS Bridge Conference 2017, Melbourne, Australia, April 3rd - 6th 2017, 2017
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Nogal, M., O Connor, A., Martinez-Pastor, B., and Caulfield, B, Novel probabilistic resilience assessment framework of transportation networks against extreme weather events, ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems: Part A Civil Engineering, 3, (3), 2017
