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Personal Information
College Photo Name O'Kelly, Brendan
Main Department Civil Structural & Environ Eng
College Title Associate Professor
E-mail bokelly@tcd.ie
College Tel +353 1 896 2387
Web http://people.tcd.ie/bokelly
Fax +353 1 677 3072
 
Biography
Brendan O'Kelly is interested in taking PhD students ....................................................................... Dr. Brendan O'Kelly is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Trinity College Dublin and is a lead member of the Geotechnics Research Group. Brendan, a Chartered Engineer and Chartered Environmentalist, is a specialist in geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering and the earth sciences with 20 years experience in research, development and consultancy. Brendan was made a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin in 2010. Brendan has a broad range of research interests, both of a fundamental and applied nature, including: (i) Novel ground improvement techniques including (a) Design approach for improving rampart roads over peat deposits using the vacuum consolidation technique funded by the National Roads Authority; (b) soil improvement by grouting including nano/biogrout funded by the Irish Research Council; (c) reduction of the long-term compressibility of peat deposits by a pre-decomposition technique funded by the Public Service Department, Government of Malaysia; (ii) fundamental studies on the principal of effective stress as applied to organic soils funded by the Irish Research Council; (iii) characterization and measurement of the geotechnical properties of municipal wastes, in particular biosolids and water treatment residues. Brendan has authored over 80 technical publications since 2003, including over 40 peer-reviewed publications in international journals. 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.
 
Representations
Details Date
National Management Committee Member for COST Action TU1202: Impact of climate change on engineered slopes for infrastructure (http://www.cost.eu/domains_actions/tud/Actions/TU1202) 2012-2016
Member Conference Scientific Committee for Joint Symposium on Bridge and Infrastructure Research in Ireland and Concrete Research in Ireland (2nd-3rd September 2010) 2010
Member Conference Scientific Committee for Joint Symposium on Bridge and Infrastructure Research in Ireland and Concrete Research in Ireland (4th–5th December 2008) 2008
Co-chair (B.C. O’Kelly and A. Kahru) for Environmental Restoration (session II) at the First International Conference on Environmental Management, Engineering, Planning and Economics (CEMEPE), Skiathos, Greece, 28th June, 2007 2007
Irish representative, EUCEET III, EU Academic Network Project on European Civil Engineering Education and Training (www.euceet.eu) 2006–2010
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Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies
Details Date From Date To
Chartered Engineer and Fellow (CEng FIEI) of The Institution of Engineers of Ireland 2001– 2012
Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv), Society for the Environment, UK 2005 –
Chartered Engineer (CEng MICE), Institution of Civil Engineers, London 2003 –
European Engineer (EurIng), European Federation of National Engineering Associations 2002 – 2012
International Register of Professional Engineers (IntPE) 2004 2012
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Awards and Honours
Award Date
Fellow of Trinity College Dublin, FTCD (awarded on the grounds of distincition in research and scholarship) 2010
Fellow of The Institution of Engineers of Ireland, FIEI 2008
Fellow Geological Society, London, FGS 2004
Pierse-Newman Fellowship in Civil Engineering, University College Dublin (first recipient) 1998–2000
Award recipient for best paper in geotechnical engineering at 2010 Conference on Bridge and Concrete Research in Ireland (BCRI) [Osorio J.P., Farrell E.R. and O'Kelly B.C., Peat improvement under vacuum preloading: A novel approach for bog roads in Ireland. Vol. 1, pp. 255 – 262] 2010
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Languages
Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
English Fluent Fluent Fluent
French Medium Basic Basic
Irish Medium Medium Medium
 
Description of Research Interests
Soil Mechanics; Geotechnical Engineering; Geoenvironmental Engineering
 
Research Interests
Dams and Earth Structures Environmental Engineering Environmental engineering Geotechnical Engineering
Geotechnics Landslides Materials Testing Soil Mechanics & Foundations
Solid Waste Disposal
 
Research Projects
Project title Model Studies on Monopile under Long-Term Cyclic Lateral Loading
Summary Dr. B.C. O'Kelly (Principal Investigator), and Mr. Muhammad Arshad(Research student_Pakistan).
Funding Agency Postgraduate Research Studentship from Trinity College (2011-2014)
Programme
Type of Project PhD
Date from September 2011
Date to September 2014
Person Months
Project title Effect of biodegradation on the compressibility of peat deposits
Summary Dr. B.C. O'Kelly (Principal Investigator), and Mr. Som Pong Pichan (Research student_Malaysia).
Funding Agency Public Service Department, Government of Malaysia
Programme Malaysian Government Scholar In - Service Training Scheme (HLP)
Type of Project MSc
Date from September 2010
Date to September 2012
Person Months
Project title Soil Improvement by Grouting Using Bio-nano Materials
Summary Dr. B.C. O'Kelly (Principal Investigator), and Mr. Hamid Reza Khatami (Research student_Iran).
Funding Agency IRCSET
Programme EMBARK Postgraduate Research Scholarship Scheme (RS/2010/2571)
Type of Project PhD
Date from September 2010
Date to September 2014
Person Months
Project title Principal of effective stress
Summary Dr. B.C. O'Kelly (Principal Investigator), and Ms. Lin Zhang (Research student_China).
Funding Agency Postgraduate Research Studentship from Trinity College (2010-2011) followed by IRCSET (2011-2014)
Programme EMBARK Postgraduate Research Scholarship Scheme (RS/2011/271)
Type of Project PhD
Date from September 2010
Date to September 2014
Person Months
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Publications and Other Research Outputs
Peer Reviewed
Khatami H.R. and O'Kelly B.C., Improving mechanical properties of sand using biopolymers, ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 139, 2013, p4   Alt. Url
DOI
Sivakumar V., O'Kelly B.C., Madhav M.R., Moorhead C. and Rankin B., Granular anchors under vertical loading/axial pull, Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 50, (2), 2013, p123 - 132  Alt. Url
DOI
Igoe D.J.P., Gavin K.G. and O'Kelly B.C., Shaft capacity of open-ended piles in sand, ASCE Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 137, (10), 2011, p903 - 913
DOI
Gavin K.G. and O'Kelly B.C., Effect of friction fatigue on pile capacity in dense sand, ASCE Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 133, (1), 2007, p63 - 71
DOI
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