Assoc ProfessorArturo Gonzalez

RESEARCH AREAS OF INTEREST:
Structural Dynamics; Traffic Loading; Bridge Loading; Bridge Assessment; Health Monitoring; Weigh-In-Motion; Signal Processing Techniques; Neural Networks; Cooperative Learning; Educational Technology.

RESEARCH PROJECTS AND PROPOSALS:
At an international level , he has participated:

• as researcher/scientist in:
  •  European FP4 framework projects WAVE (Weighing of Axles and Vehicles in Europe, 1996-1999), COST345 (Assessment and Rehabilitation of Highway Structures, 2000-2002), COST323 (Weigh-In-Motion of Road Vehicles, 1998-2000)
  • FP7 ASSET (Advanced Safety & driver Support for Essential road Transport, Jul 2008- Dec 2011, grant no. 217642 with a 8.1 million euro budget -430k euro to UCD-, Project Coordinator: PTV, Germany), where he supervised 3 PhDs and 1 MEngSc, and
  • the Spanish project " Detección de daños estructurales en infraestructuras y edificios mediante la combinación de técnicas geomáticas avanzadas de medición y métodos estocásticos de análisis (Jan 2012 - December 2014, grant no. BIA2011-26915 with a 127k euro budget, Project Coordinator: Universidad de Oviedo, Spain)' funded by the Spanish Programa Nacional de Proyectos de Investigación Fundamental, del VI Plan de Investigación Nacional Científica, Desarrollo e Innovación Tecnológica.
• as UCD Principal Investigator (PI) in:
  •  FP6 ARCHES (Assessment and Rehabilitation of Central European Highway Structures, Sep 2006- August 2009, grant no. 31272, with a 2.4 million euro budget -212k euro to UCD-, Project Coordinator: IBDIM, Poland), where he supervised 3 PhDs, and
  •  FP7 TRANSFORMERS (Configurable and Adaptable Trucks and Trailers for Optimal Transport Efficiency, Sep 2013- Feb 2017, grant no. 605170 with a 7.9 million euro budget -38.4k euro to UCD-, Project Coordinator: Volvo, Sweden) under the FEHRL umbrella.
• as Project Coordinator (PC) in:
  •  Horizon 2020 TRUSS (Training in Reducing Uncertainty in Structural Safety, Jan 2015- Dec 2018, grant no. 642453 with a 3.7 million euro budget -1.3 million euro to UCD-) Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network (ITN), where he co-supervised 3 PhDs. This ITN call was highly competitive (more than 1000 proposals) with a success rate below 10.5%. TRUSS brought together an international consortium from 5 European countries consisting of four leading European Universities with a world perspective on education (TCD, UCD, UNOTT and UPC), five industry beneficiaries (Arup, EnSA, FSDL, Lloyd's Register EMEA, Phimeca) with complementary specialist expertise and six additional industry partners (Burgmann Packings, COMSA, Crack Ingenieria Catalana, Greenwood Engineering, Microlise, URS), one research institute (TRL) and two academic partners (Universite of Nantes and Aalborg University) providing specialised support in specific research projects.
  • Irish Project Coordinator in MARS-Fly (Mobile Automated Rovers Fly-By for Bridge Network Resiliency, 2017-2021), a 1.7 million euro budget -437.5k euro to UCD- US-Ireland R&D partnership under the CNS-CPS SFI-NSF research programme, where he supervised 1 PhD and 1 Postdoctoral researcher. Other partners in MARS-Fly include the University of Alabama (USA) and Queen's University Belfast (UK).
  • Irish Project Coordinator in US-Ireland R&D Partnership where UCD participation will be funded with €348,806 in direct costs + 30% overheads. The project is titled "SYN-Bridge: Synchronised Mobile and Stationary Sensor Networks for Real-Time Bridge Health Assessment" (2026-2029), where 2 Postdoctoral researchers will join UCD research team. Other partners in SYN-Bridge include University of Alabama (USA) and Queen's University Belfast (UK).

He has also participated in the proposals: FP6 ARCHES (as UCD PI), INCA and TOFFEE (2006); FP7 FORT, and ASSET (2007), CHAIN (2008), ITD Marie Curie TEEE (2011 and 2012), ITN Marie Curie TRUSS (2012, as main project coordinator) and TRANSFORMERS (2012, as UCD PI); Erasmus Mundus THEMES (2012, as main project coordinator); Horizon 2020 TRUSS ITN (2014, as main project coordinator), ESR-NET ITN (2016), AMORE (2016), For3est (2019), UPBEaT ITN (2019 and 2020, as UCD PI); NSF-SFI USA-Ireland partnerships "FlyMon" and "Syn-Bridge" (2014, 2016 and 2025, as main Irish PI).

At a national level:

• Project leader in a successful proposal titled “GENIE - GENerative Intelligence in Engineering: building critical and ethical GenAI capacity in Civil Engineering” submitted to the Strategic Alignment of Teaching and Learning Enhancement (SATLE) Funding Call 2026. 8-May-2026. Budget: €19,800 (June 2026 - Dec 2027)
• He received funding (72k euro) from the Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology (IRCSET) to fund the research of a PhD student on "Empirical Mode Decomposition of the Structural Response to a Moving Load for Damage Identification in Bridges" (Aug 2010- Aug 2013).
• As a college lecturer, he obtained a scholarship (38.8k euro) from MCOS; RPS Consulting Engineers Ltd. that allowed him to fund the research of a Master student on "Dynamic Response of Highway Bridges Due to Vehicle Braking/Acceleration" (Oct 2003 - Sep 2004).
• He participated in a successful HEA Transport proposal (2003). 
• Following the completion of his doctorate, he won the prestigious Pierse Newman Fellowship to carry out post-doctoral research at UCD (2001-2003).
• he was awarded a special distinction for his MSc thesis, and Trinity College and Forbairt Scholarships for the development of accurate Bridge Weigh-In-Motion systems for his PhD (1996-2000). During this period, he participated in the calibration of the Eurocode traffic loads for Irish conditions where significant reductions were achieved in a job commissioned by the NRA.

He received two supporting grants from Enterprise Ireland for the coordination and preparation of ITN Marie Curie proposals (12.2k euros in 2012 and 12.5k in 2014). 

At an institutional level, he has obtained:

• SATLE funding (800 euros) from UCD School of Teaching and Learning for the development of Gen-AI microlearning audio podcasts in civil engineering (Nov 2025 - April 2026),
• a teaching excellence award (500 euros) from UCD College of Engineering and Architecture (2017),
• a career development award (13k euro) from UCD Urban Institute for research on "Cost-Effective Transport Infrastructure" (Sep 2006 - Sep 2007), 
• Several grants for dissemination and outputs under the UCD seed funding scheme (2008,2009,2012,2013,2025) and the Output-Based Research Support Scheme (with annual periodicity from 2016 to 2025), with amounts that vary between 1.5k and 4k euros in each award. 

PUBLICATIONS:
His number of citations is 5601, H-index is 42 and i10-index is 88 (March 2026). Updated citation Indexes of his main publications can be found at http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=iaoy_BAAAAAJ. Top quartile (Q1) journal papers include:

• 1 in Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering (IF=3.13, ranked 3 of 328 in 2021 SJR Civil and Structural Engineering),
• 1 in International Journal of Numerical Methods in Eng. (IF=2.01, 92/2267 in 2015 SJR Engineering),
• 4 in Mechanical Systems & Signal Processing (MSSP) (Impact factor=2.067, ranked 4 of 360 in 2017 SJR Civil Eng.),
• 2 in Computers & Structures (IF=1.606, 10/360 in 2017 SJR),
• 11 in Eng. Structures (IF=1.63, 20/441 in 2018 SJR, IF =1.570, 12/360 in 2017 SJR),
• 1 in Developments in the Built Environment (IF=1.56 in 2023 SJR),
• 4 in Sound & Vibration (IF=1.49, 39/482 in 2015 Mechanical Eng.),
• 1 in Marine Structures (IF=1.48 in 2018 SJR),
• 1 in European Journal of Mechanics, A/Solids (IF=1.46, 38/490 in 2016 SJR Mechanical Eng.),
• 1 in Structural Control and Health Monitoring (IF=1.45 in 2019 SJR),
• 1 in Progress in Nuclear Engineering (IF=1.24 in 2019 SJR),
• 2 in Structural Health Monitoring (IF=1.29, 57/482 in 2015 Mechanical Eng.),
• 3 in Ocean Engineering (IF=1.28 in 2019),
• 1 in Vehicle System Dynamics (IF=1.14, 71/482 in 2015 Mechanical Eng.),
• 2 in Structures & Infrastructure Eng. (IF=1.14 in 2018 SJR and IF=0.70 in 2015 Civil Eng.),
• 1 in ASCE Engineering Mechanics (IF=1.06 in 2018 SJR),
• 1 in Elsevier Nuclear Engineering and Design (IF=1.06 in 2018),
• 1 in ASCE Bridge Eng. (IF=1.04, 40/212 in 2015 Civil Eng.),
• 1 in Nuclear Engineering and Technology (IF=0.85 in 2018),
• 1 in Experimental Mechanics (IF=0.91, 95/482 in 2015 Mechanical Eng.),
• 1 in International Journal of Engineering Education (IF=0.80, 505/2267 in 2015 SJR Engineering),
• 1 in Reliability Engineering and System Safety,

and Q2 papers include:

• 1 in Journal of Civil Structural Healh Monitoring,
• 1 in Energy Procedia (IF=0.50 in 2017),
• 3 in Baltic Journal of Road & Bridge Eng. (IF=0.42,105/212 in 2015 Civil Eng.),
• 1 in Shock & Vibration (IF=0.41, 107/212 in 2015 Civil Eng.),
• 1 in International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education (IF=0.39 in 2018),
• 1 in Canadian Journal of Civil Eng. (IF=0.39, 111/212 in 2015 Civil Eng.) and
• 1 in Journal of Testing and Evaluation (IF=0.34 in 2015) among others.

Some representative publications are: 
• The publication 'A wavelet-based damage detection algorithm based on bridge acceleration response to a vehicle' by Hester, D. and Gonzalez, A. (2012), Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing 28, pp. 145-166, has been selected together with other 24 highly cited publications from across the 6 Schools within the College of Engineering and Architecture for the 'Publications Wall of Frames' in 2015 as a way of acknowledging their high number of citations (2nd highest in the School of Civil Engineering in the last 3 years) and the impact of research and innovation within the College. The papers titled 'The use of a dynamic truck-trailer drive-by system to monitor bridge damping' by Keenahan, J., OBrien, E.J., McGetrick, P.J., and Gonzalez, A. (2014), Structural Health Monitoring 13(2), pp. 143-157, and 'A kNN algorithm for locating and quantifying stiffness loss in a bridge from the forced vibration due to a truck crossing at low speed' by Kun, F., Gonzalez, A. and Casero M. (2021), Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing 154, have also been selected for the College's "Publications Wall of Frames" in 2017 and 2024 respectively.
• The publication 'The use of vehicle acceleration measurements to estimate road roughness' by Gonzalez, A., OBrien, E.J., Li, Y. and Cashell, K. (2008), Vehicle System Dynamics 46(6), pp. 483-499, has been alternating first positions within the top 10 downloads from the School of Civil Engineering repository consistently from its publication in 2008. More recently, the publication in the International Journal of Engineering Education 30(5) titled 'Multi-faceted Impact of a Team Game Tournament on the Ability of the Learners to Engage and Develop their Own Critical Skill Set' by Gonzalez, A., Jennings, D. and Manriquez, L. (2014) has also entered the list of top 10 downloads within the School.
• The book chapter 'Vehicle-bridge dynamic interaction using finite element modelling' by Gonzalez, A., chapter 26 in the book titled 'Finite Element Analysis', InTech, pp. 637-662, has had more than 14000 downloads (March 2018) in the publisher's website.

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