Assoc ProfessorArturo Gonzalez

Bridge Assessment; Infrastructure Health Monitoring; Weigh-In-Motion; Traffic Loading

University College Dublin

Disseminate knowledge on load exerted by heavy vehicles on bridges, more specifically, the work on "dynamic impact of heavy long vehicles with equally spaced axles on short span highway bridges" of direct application to the field of the attendees

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The activities of the Association will cover all aspects of life-cycle assessment, design, maintenance, rehabilitation and monitoring of civil engineering systems. The mission of the Association is to become the premier international organization for the advancement of the state-of-the-art in the field of life-cycle civil engineering. The objective of the Association is to promote international cooperation in the field of life-cycle civil engineering for the purpose of enhancing the welfare of society. In order to fulfill its mission and objective, the Association will organize congresses, conferences, symposia, workshops, seminars, and short courses on the related topics.

Recognising leadership of a project in the Horizon 2020 Programme in the presence of John Halligan TD, Minister of State for Training, Skills, Innovation, Research and Development, and Julie Sinnamon, CEO Enterprise Ireland

Adjudication Criteria: Approaches to teaching and learning that engage, motivate and inspire students to learn; Development and enhancement of curricula and resources that reflect a command of the field; Significant impact on the quality of the student educational experience; Leadership and change at the level of discipline/college/university; Engagement with and/or contributed to the scholarship of teaching and learning.<

World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology is a decentralized, open-science research organization dedicated to promoting the advancement of science, engineering and technology. The International Scientific Committees and Editorial Review Boards are comprised of distinguished and competent scholars, scientists and researchers from around the world. World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology kindly invites scholars, scientists and researchers (PhD qualified only) to join in and work on the International Scientific Committees and Editorial Review Boards of scientific research journals and conferences.

The Advocate collaborates with Engineers Ireland in progressing with appropriate initiatives, such as: • arrangements for class visits/ student presentations • sign up of undergraduate engineering students as student members of Engineers Ireland • introduction of undergraduate and post graduate engineering student ‘Achievement of Excellence’ Awards • introduction of ‘Engineering Excellence Case Studies’ to the School’s undergraduate programmes • introduction of an Engineers Ireland ‘Internship Programme’ to lend assistance to the college’s existing work placements activities • the delivery of ‘Engineers Connect’ events, bringing together students, academics, employers, recruiters, Engineers Ireland members, committees, societies and divisions • supply of the college’s yearly list of new engineering graduates (all of Engineers Ireland’s student members have signed appropriate Data Protection declarations) • distribution of collateral regarding Engineers Ireland’s annual ‘Innovative Student of the Year’ competition and • fostering linkages between the college and employers from the 5,000+ organisations represented in Engineers Ireland membership, including potential for cluster linkages to the School’s distinguishing competency, as discussed.

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Jennifer Keenahan received the prize to the best paper fo research in bridge engineering for the paper titled "Detecting Damage in a Beam Subject to a Moving Load Using Localised Variation in Vibration Response" (pp.195-198) by J. Keenahan (who presented the paper), A. Gonzalez, P. McGetrick and EJ OBrien.

David Hester received the prize to the 2nd best paper fo research in bridge engineering for the paper titled "Detecting Damage in a Beam Subject to a Moving Load Using Localised Variation in Vibration Response" (pp.307-314) by D.Hester and A.Gonzalez.

Patrick McGetrick received the best paper prize for the paper titled "Theoretical Investigation of the Use of a Moving Vehicle to Identify Bridge Dynamic Parameters" (pp.101-113) by P. McGetrick, A. Gonzalez and E.J. OBrien.

Brian Walsh and Daniel Cantero shared the young researcher best paper prize in Bridge Research for their papers titled "Location and Evaluation of Maximum Dynamic Effects on a Simply Supported Beam due to a Quarter-Car Model" by Daniel Cantero and Arturo Gonzalez (pp. 119-127), and "An Overview of Application of Neural Networks to Monitoring of Civil Engineering Structures" by Brian Walsh and Arturo Gonzalez (pp. 163-171), in the Bridge & Infrastructure Research in Ireland BRI2008 conference, held in Galway, Ireland, on the 4th and 5th December 2008.

Best paper prize to "Comparison of conventional and regularized bridge weigh-in-motion algorithms" by Cillian Rowley, Arturo Gonzalez, Eugene OBrien and Ales Znidaric

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