Brendan O Kelly
Associate Professor
Civil, Structural & Environmental Engineering
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
Biography
Dr. Brendan O Kelly is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering at Trinity College Dublin. Brendan, a Chartered Engineer and Chartered Environmentalist, is the principal investigator of the Geotechnical Research Group, including the research areas of environmental geotechnics and geoenvironmental engineering. He was made a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin in 2010. Prior to his current appointment, Brendan was a design engineer with Scott Wilson Consulting Engineers, UK, and for successive two-year periods as the Pierce-Newman Fellow in Civil Engineering, Research Fellow in Soil Mechanics and Assistant Lecturer in Civil Engineering at University College Dublin, Ireland.
Research Interest
Dams and Earth Structures; Environmental engineering; Geotechnical Engineering; Geotechnics; Landslides; Materials Testing; Soil Mechanics & Foundations; Solid Waste Disposal
Publications
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Noor Muneerah PG Haji Jeludin, D.K., Sivakumar, V., O Kelly B.C. and Mackinnon P.A., Experimental observations of settlement of footings supported on soft clay reinforced with granular columns: laboratory model study, Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 142, (1), 2016, p15
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O Kelly B.C., Briefing: Atterberg limits and peat, Environmental Geotechnics, 3, (6), 2016, p359 - 363
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O Kelly, B.C., Assessing the shear strength of municipal sludges and residues for landfill disposal, Proceedings of the Third Symposium on Urban Mining and Circular Economy (SUM2016), Bergamo, Italy, 23-25th May 2016, edited by Cossu R and Lavagnolo MC , CISA Publisher: Italy, 2016, pp11
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Johnston P.M. and O Kelly B.C., Importance of environmental geotechnics, Environmental Geotechnics, 3, (6), 2016, p356 - 358
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O Kelly B.C., Biodegradation of biosolids and specific gravity determination, Environmental Geotechnics, 4, 2017, p15
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O Kelly, B.C., Fall-cone strength testing of municipal sludges and residues, Environmental Geotechnics, 4, 2017, p13
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O Kelly BC, Critical review of measurement, interpretation and recommended use of laboratory-derived strength properties of fibrous peats, Geotechnical Research, 4, 2017
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Zhang L., O Kelly B.C. and Nagel T., Tensile and compressive contributions of fibres in peat, Poromechanics VI: Proceedings of the Sixth Biot Conference on Poromechanics, Champs-sur-Marne, Paris, France, 9-13th July 2017, edited by Vandamme M., Dangla P., Pereira J-M. and Ghabezloo S. , American Society of Civil Engineers: Reston, Virginia, USA, 2017, pp1466 - 1473
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Zomorodian S.M.A., Shabnam M., Armina S. and O Kelly B.C., Strength enhancement of clean and kerosene-contaminated sandy lean clay using nanoclay and nanosilica as additives, Applied Clay Science, 140, (May 2017), 2017, p140 - 147
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Arshad, M. and O Kelly, B.C., Reducing monopile rotation under lateral loading in sandy soils, Geomechanics and Geoengineering, 12, (1), 2017, p14 - 27
