Civil Engineering Theses
Civil Engineering
Theses
Alphabetical List
Note 1: some theses may be listed under more than one heading
Note 2: the degree that in other Universities is usually called "Ph.D." is in Oxford called "D.Phil."
REINFORCED SOIL
Unpaved Roads
- Love, J.P. (1985) D.Phil. "Model Testing of Geogrids in Unpaved Roads"
Download from the ORA website - Burd, H.J. (1986) D.Phil. "A Large Displacement Finite Element Analysis of a Reinforced Unpaved Road"
Download from the ORA website - Fannin, R.J. (1986) D.Phil. "Geogrid Reinforcement of Granular Layers on Soft Clay - a Study at Model and Full Scale"
Download from the ORA website - Brocklehurst, C.J. (1993) D.Phil. "Finite Element Studies of Reinforced and Unreinforced Two-Layer Soil Systems"
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Other reinforced soil applications
- Dyer, M.R. (1985) D.Phil. "Observation of the Stress Distribution in Crushed Glass with Applications to Soil Reinforcement"
Download from the ORA website - Palmeira, E.M. (1987) D.Phil. "The Study of Soil Reinforcement Interaction by Means of Large Scale Laboratory Tests"
Download from the ORA website - Pedley, M.J. (1990) D.Phil. "The Performance of Soil Reinforcement in Bending and Shear"
Download from the ORA website - Tei, K. (1993) D.Phil. "A Study of Soil Nailing in Sand"
Download from the ORA website - Morris, J.D. (1999) D.Phil. "Physical and Numerical Modelling of Grouted Nails in Clay"
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OFFSHORE FOUNDATIONS AND STRUCTURES
Piling
- Gue, S.S. (1984) D.Phil. "Ground Heave Around Driven Piles in Clay"
Download from the ORA website - Evans, K.M. (1987) D.Phil. "A Model Study of the End Bearing Capacity of Piles in Layered Calcareous Soils"
Download from the ORA website - Coop, M.R. (1987) D.Phil. "Axial Capacity of Driven Piles in Clay"
Download from the ORA website - Chaudhry, A.R. (1994) D.Phil. "Static Pile-Soil-Pile Interaction in Offshore Pile Groups"
Download from the ORA website - Dash, S.R. (2010) D.Phil. "Lateral Pile-Soil Interaction in Liquefiable Soils"
abstract | thesis (7.34MB, pdf) - Beuckelaers, W.J.A.P (2017) D.Phil. "Numerical Modelling of Laterally Loaded Piles for Offshore Wind Turbines"
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Shallow foundations, jack-up units
- de Santa Maria, P.E.L. (1988) D.Phil. "Behaviour of Footings for Offshore Structures under Combined Loads"
Download from the ORA website - Bell, R.W. (1991) M.Sc. "The Analysis of Offshore Foundations Subjected to Combined Loading"
Download from the ORA website - Martin, C.M. (1994) D.Phil. "Physical and Numerical Modelling of Offshore Foundations Under Combined Loads"
Download from the ORA website - Thompson, R.S.G. (1996) D.Phil. "Development of Non-Linear Numerical Models Appropriate for the Analysis of Jack-up Units"
Download from the ORA website - Ngo Tran, C.L. (1996) D.Phil. "The Analysis of Offshore Foundations Subjected to Combined Loading"
Download from the ORA website - Mangal, J.K. (1999) D.Phil. "Partially Drained Loading of Shallow Foundations on Sand"
Download from the ORA website - Cassidy, M.J. (1999) D.Phil. "Non-Linear Analysis of Jack-up Structures Subjected to Random Waves"
Download from the ORA website - Byrne, B.W. (2000) D.Phil. "Investigations of Suction Caissons in Dense Sand"
Download from the ORA website - Nguyen-Sy, L. (2005) D.Phil. "The Theoretical Modelling of Circular Shallow Foundation for Offshore Wind Turbines"
Download from the ORA website - Villalobos Jara, F.A. (2006) D.Phil. "Model Testing of Foundations for Offshore Wind Turbines"
Download from the ORA website - Hazell, E. (2008) D.Phil. "Numerical and Experimental Studies of Shallow Cone Penetration in Clay"
Download from the ORA website - Cotter, O. (2009) D.Phil. "The Installation of Suction Cassion Foundations for Offshore Renewable Energy Structures"
abstract | thesis (18.8Mb, pdf) - Sandford, R. (2012) D.Phil. "Lateral buckling of High-Pressure/High Temperature On-Bottom Pipelines"
abstract | thesis (27.7mb, pdf)
IN-SITU TESTING
- Coop, M.R. (1987) D.Phil. "Axial Capacity of Driven Piles in Clay"
Download from the ORA website - May, R.E. (1987) D.Phil. "A Study of the Piezocone Penetrometer in Normally Consolidated Clay"
Download from the ORA website - Teh, C.I. (1987) D.Phil. "An Analytical Study of the Cone Penetration Test"
Download from the ORA website - Nyirenda, Z.M. (1990) D.Phil. "Piezocone Studies in Lightly Overconsolidated Soil"
Download from the ORA website - Schnaid, F. (1990) D.Phil. "A Study of the Cone- pressuremeter Test in Sand"
Download from the ORA website - Yu, H.S. (1990) D.Phil. "Cavity Expansion Theory and its Application to the Analysis of Pressuremeters"
Download from the ORA website - Nutt, N.R.F. (1993) D.Phil. "Development of the Cone Pressuremeter"
Download from the ORA website - Smith, M.G. (1993) D.Phil. "A Laboratory Study of the Marchetti Dilatometer"
Download from the ORA website - Yao, M. (1996) M.Sc. "A Study of the Effect of Length to Diameter Ratio on the Results of Pressuremeter Tests"
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UNSATURATED AND GASSY SOILS
- Nageswaran, S. (1983) D.Phil. "Effects of Gas Bubbles on the Sea-Bed Behaviour"
Download from the ORA website - Wheeler, S.J. (1986) D.Phil. "Stress-Strain Behaviour of Soils Containing Gas Bubbles"
Download from the ORA website - Gardner, T.N. (1988) D.Phil. "The Acoustic Properties of Gassy Soil"
Download from the ORA website - Thomas, S.D. (1988) D.Phil. "The Consolidation Behaviour of Gassy Soil"
Download from the ORA website - Sharma, R.S. (1998) D.Phil. "Mechanical Behaviour of Unsaturated Highly Expansive Clays"
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SEDIMENTATION AND CONSOLIDATION OF SOFT CLAYS
- Lee, K. (1979) D.Phil. "An Analytical and Experimental Study of Large Strain Consolidation"
Download from the ORA website - Been, K. (1980) D.Phil. "Stress-Strain Behaviour of a Cohesive Soil Deposited Under Water"
Download from the ORA website - Elder, D. McG. (1985) D.Phil. "Stress-Strain and Strength Behaviour of Very Soft Soil Sediment"
Download from the ORA website - Bowden, R.K. (1988) D.Phil. "Compression Behaviour and Shear Strength Characteristics of a Natural Silty Clay Sedimented in the Laboratory"
Download from the ORA website - Lee, M. (2000) M.Sc. "An Experimental and Analytical Study of Electrokinetic Consolidation"
Download from the ORA website - Bartholomeeusen, G. (2003) D.Phil. "Compound Shock Waves and Creep Behaviour in Sediment Beds"
Download from the ORA website - Lintern, D.G. (2003) D.Phil. "Influences of Flocculation on Bed Properties for Fine-Grained Cohesive Sediment"
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TUNNELLING AND TRENCHLESS TECHNOLOGY
Pipejacking and pipebursting
- Ripley, K.J. (1989) D.Phil. "The Performance of Jacked Pipes"
Download from the ORA website - Swee, J.L.K. (1991) D.Phil. "Pipebursting: Model Tests"
abstract - Norris, P. (1992) D.Phil. "The Behaviour of Jacked Concrete Pipes During Site Installation"
Download from the ORA website - Zhou, J.-Q. (1998) D.Phil. "Numerical Analysis and Laboratory Test of Concrete Jacking Pipes"
Download from the ORA website - Marshall, M.A. (1998) D. Phil. "Pipe-Jacked Tunnelling: Jacking Loads and Ground Movements"
Download from the ORA website - Psomas, S (2001) M.Sc. "Properties of Foam/Sand Mixtures for Tunnelling Applications"
Download from the ORA website - Pena Duarte , M (2007) D.Phil. "Foam as a Soil Conditioner in Tunnelling: Physical and Mechanical Properties of Conditioned Sands"
Download from the ORA website - Schupp, J. (2009) D.Phil. "Upheaval buckling and flotation of buried offshore pipelines"
abstract | thesis (251mb, pdf) - Li, Y. (2015) M.Sc. "Lateral Buckling of On-bottom Pipelines in Sand"
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Tunnelling (general)
- Chow, L. (1994) M.Sc. "The Prediction of Surface Settlements Due to Tunnelling in Soft Ground"
Download from the ORA website - Kim, S.-H. (1996) D.Phil. "Model Testing and Analysis of Interactions between Tunnels in Clay"
Download from the ORA website - Liu Gang (1997) D.Phil. "Numerical Modelling of Damage to Masonry Buildings Due to Tunnelling"
Download from the ORA website - Augarde, C.E. (1997) D.Phil. "Numerical Modelling of Tunnelling Processes for Assessment of Damage to Buildings"
Download from the ORA website - Bloodworth, A.G. (2002) D.Phil. "Three-Dimensional Analysis of Tunnelling Effects on Structures to Develop Design Methods"
Download from the ORA website - Pickhaver, J.A. (2006) D.Phil. "Numerical Modelling of Building Response to Tunnelling"
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FLOW OF GRANULAR MATERIALS
- Saperstein, L.W. (1967) D.Phil. "The Dynamics of Granular Solids"
Download from the ORA website - Wilson, J. (1970) D.Phil. "Forces Exerted on Solid Bodies Moving Through Cohesionless Soils"
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ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS
- Harbottle, M.J. (2003) D.Phil. "The Use of Electrokinetics to Enhance the Degradation of Organic Contaminants in Soils"
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CONCRETE
- O'Mahoney, M.M. (1990) D.Phil. "Recycling of Materials in Civil Engineering"
Download from the ORA website - Nguyen, G.D. (2005) D.Phil. "A Thermodynamic Approach to Constitutive Modelling of Concrete using Damage Mechanics and Plasticity Theory"
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STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS
- Thompson, R.S.G. (1996) D.Phil. "Development of Non-Linear Numerical Models Appropriate for the Analysis of Jack-up Units"
Download from the ORA website - Cassidy, M.J. (1999) D.Phil. "Non-Linear Analysis of Jack-up Structures Subjected to Random Waves"
Download from the ORA website - Falati, S. (1999) D.Phil. "The contribution of non-structural components to the overall dynamic behaviour of concrete floor slabs"
Download from the ORA website - Williams, D.M. (2000) D.Phil. "Numerical Modelling of Real Time Sub-Structure testing"
Download from the ORA website - Neild, S.A. (2001) D.Phil. "Using Non-Linear Vibration Techniques to Detect Damage in Concrete Bridges"
Download from the ORA website - Clément, D.E. (2002) D.Phil. "Seismic Analysis of Knee Elements for Steel Frames"
Download from the ORA website - Grey, M. (2006) M.Sc "Finite Element Seismic Analysis of Guyed Masts"
Download from the ORA website - Bonnet, P.A. (2006) D.Phil "The Development of Multi-Axis Real-Time Substructure Testing"
Download from the ORA website - Sim, J.H.H. (2006) D.Phil. "Human-Structure Interaction in Cantilever Grandstands"
Download from the ORA website - Ehland, A. (2009) D.Phil. "Vibrations of precast and partially prestressed floor systems under moving loads"
abstract | thesis (15.59Mb, pdf) - Ojaghi, M. (Makhzan Ojaghi, S. M.) (2010) D.Phil. "The Development of Real-Time Distributed Hybrid Testing for Earthquake Engineering"
abstract - Nhleko, S. (2011) D.Phil. "Human-induced Lateral Excitation of Assembly Structures"
Download from the ORA website - Whittle, J. (2011) D.Phil. "Strategic Placement of Viscous Dampers for Seismic Structural Design"
Download from the ORA website - Claff, D.E. (2015) D.Phil. "Pedestrian-Induced Lateral Excitation of Footbridges"
Download from the ORA website - Del Gobbo, G.M. (2017) D.Phil. "Placement of Fluid Viscous Dampers to Reduce Total-Building Seismic Damage"
Download from the ORA website - Basagiannis, C.A. (2018) D.Phil. "Seismic Design and Evaluation of Moment Resisting Frames using Elastmeric Dampers"
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STRUCTURAL GLASS
- Crompton, P.R. (1999) M.Sc. "Assessment of Design Procedures for Structural Glass Beams"
Download from the ORA website - Porter, M.I. (2001) D.Phil. "Aspects of Structural Design with Glass"
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DEPLOYABLE STRUCTURES
- Lengyel, A. (2002) D.Phil. "Analogy between Equilibrium of Structures and Compatibility of Mechanisms"
Download from the ORA website - Chen, Y. (2003) D.Phil. "Design of Structural Mechanisms"
Download from the ORA website - Kuribayashi, K. (2004) D.Phil. "A Novel Foldable Stent Graft"
Download from the ORA website - Melin, N. (2004) D.Phil. "Application of Bennett Mechanisms to Long-Span Shelters"
Download from the ORA website - Ma, J. (2011) D.Phil. "Thin-Walled Tubes with Pre-folded Origami Patterns as Energy Absorption Devices"
abstract | thesis (3.08mb, pdf) - Gattas, J.M. (2013) D.Phil. "Quasi-Static Impact of Foldcore Sandwich Panels"
Download from the ORA website - Li, Y. (2016) D.Phil. "Thin-Walled Structures for Energy Absorption"
Download from the ORA website - Cao, Y. (2017) M.Sc. "Rigid origami of thick panels and deployable membranes"
Download from the ORA Website - Zhang, B. (2017) D.Phil. "Bistable and Mutli-stable Thin-Walled Structures"
Download from the ORA website - Xia, Y. (2017) D.Phil. "Novel Self-Expanding Stent Retractors for Neuroendoscopy"
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FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS
A number of other theses make use of Finite Element Analysis, but the following concentrate principally on this area of work.
- Burd, H.J. (1986) D.Phil. "A Large Displacement Finite Element Analysis of a Reinforced Unpaved Road"
Download from the ORA website - Teh, C.I. (1987) D.Phil. "An Analytical Study of the Cone Penetration Test"
Download from the ORA website - Yu, H.S. (1990) D.Phil. "Cavity Expansion Theory and its Application to the Analysis of Pressuremeters"
Download from the ORA website - Bell, R.W. (1991) M.Sc. "The Analysis of Offshore Foundations Subjected to Combined Loading"
Download from the ORA website - Brocklehurst, C.J. (1993) D.Phil. "Finite Element Studies of Reinforced and Unreinforced Two-Layer Soil Systems"
Download from the ORA website - Chaudhry, A.R. (1994) D.Phil. "Static Pile-Soil-Pile Interaction in Offshore Pile Groups"
Download from the ORA website - Chow, L. (1994) M.Sc. "The Prediction of Surface Settlements Due to Tunnelling in Soft Ground"
Download from the ORA website - Ngo Tran, C.L. (1996) D.Phil. "The Analysis of Offshore Foundations Subjected to Combined Loading"
Download from the ORA website - Yao, M. (1996) M.Sc. "A Study of the Effect of Length to Diameter Ratio on the Results of Pressuremeter Tests"
Download from the ORA website - Liu, G. (1997) D.Phil. "Numerical Modelling of Damage to Masonry Buildings Due to Tunnelling"
Download from the ORA website - Augarde, C.E. (1997) D.Phil. "Numerical Modelling of Tunnelling Processes for Assessment of Damage to Buildings"
Download from the ORA website - Zhou, J.-Q. (1998) D.Phil. "Numerical Analysis and Laboratory Test of Concrete Jacking Pipes"
Download from the ORA website - Bloodworth, A.G. (2002) D.Phil. "Three Dimensional Analysis of Tunnelling Effects on Structures to Develop Design Methods"
Download from the ORA website - Likitlersuang, S. (2003) D.Phil. "A Hyperplasticity Model For Clay Behaviour: An Application To Bangkok Clay"
Download from the ORA website - Dong, Y. (2014) D.Phil. "Advanced Finite Element Analysis of Deep Excavation Case Histories"
Download from the ORA website - Dunne, H.P. (2017) D.Phil. "Finite Element Limit Analysis of Offshore Foundations on Clay"
Download from the ORA website - Yiu, W.N. (2018) D.Phil. "Finite Element Analysis of Short-Term and Long-Term Building Response to Tunnelling"
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DISTINCT ELEMENT MODELLING
- Boon, C.W. (2013) D.Phil. "Distinct Element Modelling of Jointed Rock Masses: Algorithms and their Verification"
Download from the ORA website - Modenese, C. (2013) D.Phil "Numerical Study of the Mechanical Properties of Lunar Soil by the Discrete Element Method"
Download from the ORA website - Zhao, T. (2014) D.Phil "Investigation of Landslide-Induced Debris Flows by the DEM and CFD"
Abstract | Thesis (6.65Mb, pdf)
COMPUTATIONAL HYDRAULICS
- Kaar, E.T. (1991) D.Phil. "Curvilinear Systems Modelling of Pollutant Transport in Shallow Waters"
abstract - Akponasa, G.A. (1992) D.Phil. "Solution of the Contravariant Shallow Water Equations Using Boundary-Fitted Coordinate Systems"
abstract - Greaves, D.M. (1995) D.Phil. "Numerical modelling of laminar separated flows and inviscid steep waves using adaptive hierarchical meshes"
abstract - Saalehi, A. (1996) D.Phil. "Quadtree-based finite element modelling of laminar separated flow past a cylinder"
abstract - Cruz Leon, S. (1997) D.Phil. "Numerical Solution of the Shallow Water Equations on Quadtree Grids"
abstract - Chern, M.-J. (1999) D.Phil. "3-D pseudospectral model of free surface and viscous flows"
- Park, K.-Y. (1999) D.Phil. "Quadtree grid numerical model of nearshore wave-current interaction"
- Turnbull, M. (1999) D.Phil. "The numerical modelling of steep waves interacting with structures"
Download from the ORA website - Ohl, C. (2000) D.Phil. "Free surface disturbances and non-linear run-up around offshore structures"
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WIND ENGINEERING
- Gumley, S.J. (1981) D.Phil. "Tubing Systems for the Measurement of Fluctuating Pressures"
abstract - Green, D.W. R. (1983) D.Phil. "A Wind Tunnel Study of Flow Over Hills"
abstract - Rutledge, K.W. (1984) D.Phil. "Wind Tunnel Modelling of Buoyant Plumes"
Download from the ORA website - Letchford, C.W. (1987) D.Phil. "Pneumatic Averaging and its Application in Wind Engineering"
abstract - Tasker, M.N. (1987) D.Phil. "The Effect of Heat Transfer on the Dispersion of Cold Dense Gases"
abstract - Parkinson, H.G. (1987) D.Phil. "Measurements of Wind Flow Over Models of a Hill"
abstract - Minson, A.J. (1993) D.Phil. "Use of Laser Doppler Anemometer Measurements near Model Buildings to Determine Wind Loading on Building Attachments"
abstract - Marwood, R. (1996) D.Phil. "An Investigation of Conical Roof-Edge Vortices"
Download from the ORA website - Marshall, B. J. (1999) D.Phil. "Wind Flow Structures and Wind Forces in Forests"
Download from the ORA website - Nelmes, S.J. (1999) D.Phil. "Design of Shetlerbelts"
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Tidal Power
- Draper, S. (2011) D.Phil. Tidal Stream Energy Extraction in Caostal Basins"
abstract | Thesis (8.38mb, pdf) - McAdam, R. (2011) D.Phil. "Studies into the Technical Feasibility of the Transverse Horizontal Axis Water Turbine"
Download from the ORA website - Consul, C.A. (2011) D.Phil. "Hydrodynamcis Analysis of a Tidal Cross-Flow Turbine"
Download from the ORA website - Ferrer, E. (2012) D.Phil. "A high order Discontinuous Galerkin - Fourier incompressible 3D Navier-Stokes solver with rotating sliding meshes for simulating cross-flow turbines"
Download from the ORA website - Belloni, C. (2013) D.Phil. "Hydrodynamics of Ducted and Open-Centre Tidal Turbines"
abstract | thesis (1.5Mb, pdf) - Serhadlioglu, S. (2014) D.Phil. "Tidal Stream Resource Assessment of Anglesey Skerries and the Bristol Channel"
Download from the ORA website - Fleming, C.F. (2014) D.Phil. "Tidal Turbine Performance in the Offshore Environment"
Download from the ORA website - Vogel, C.R. (2014) D.Phil. "Theoretical Limits to Tidal Stream Energy Extraction"
abstract | thesis (4.88Mb, pdf) - Schluntz, J. (2014) D.Phil. "Tidal Tubine Array Modelling"
Download from the ORA website - Hunter, W. (2015) D.Phil. "Actuator Disk Methods for Tidal Turbine Arrays"
abstract | thesis (5.8mb, pdf) - Cooke, S. (2016) D.Phil "Enhanced array design for tidal power generation"
Download from the ORA website - Gao, C. (2017) M.Sc. "Analysis of storm surge and tidal resonance in the Bristol channel"
abstract | thesis (4.65Mb, pdf) - Muchala, S. (2017) D.Phil. "Impact of Tidal Turbine Support Structures on Realizable Turbine Farm Power"
Download from the ORA website - Wimshurst, A. (2018) D.Phil. "Tip Flow Corrections for Horizontal Axis Wind and Tidal Turbine Rotors"
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Theses from other Universities
The following theses from other Universities are also available:
- Houlsby, G.T. (1981) Ph.D., Cambridge University "A study of plasticity theories and their applicability to soil"
Thesis (Cambridge Univeristy repository) - Williams, M.S. (1988) Ph.D., Bristol University "The cutting of unbonded prestressing tendons during demolition"
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