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Lecturer in geotechnical engineering. Completed a PhD on the topic of piling in 1998. Has published widely on the topic and is a member of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering technical committee on pile foundations and past chairman of Geotechnical Society of Ireland. Currently supervising six post graduate students. |
| Research Interests: Foundation Systems, Effect of climate change on infrastructure, Offshore Soil Mechanics RESEARCH GRANTS EU FP7 (2011) SMART Rail project coordinator, UCD Budget, 570,000 Euro EU FP7 (2011) TRA 2010, Partner, UCD Budget 108,507 Euro Enterprise Ireland Innovation Partnership Fund (2011), Offshore Wind Turbines, 178,276 Euro PRTLI- Earth Science Institute (2011) Rate infrastructure project, 243,000 Euro. Science Foundation Ireland (2010) Research Frontiers Programme 202,758 Euro IPA Research Award (2010), 5,000 USD IRCSET Innovation Partnership (2010) 84,000 Euro IRCSET (2010) PhD Scholarship 72,000 Euro EU FP7 (2008) Asset Project, UCD budget 430,000 Euro. UCD Research Award - Small Equipment Grant (2007), 8,000 Euro. HMC Piling/Arup (2007) Piling Researcgh 7,000 Euro Use of In-Situ measurements techniques to determine the safety of railway slopes (2007) - 70,000 Euro, Irish Rail Reliability of Offshore Foundations for Wind Turbines (2006) 70,000 Euro, IRCSET/SEI Career Development Award (2006) - 10,000Euro award from Urban Institute University of Western Australia Travel Award (2005) - 4000 Euro Investigation of bored piles behaviour in glacial till. Value of fieldwork to Skanska and UCD 100,000 Euro, Sponsors Arup Consulting Engineers/Allied Irish Bank 2004. Research grant award for a study on the behaviour of wind turbine foundations, Value 80,000 Euro. Sponsors Sustainable Energy Ireland/ Aertech Ltd. 2003 Research grant award for a study of the stability of compacted slopes in glacial till, Value 40,000 Euro. Sponsors Irish Rail. 2002 UCD Presidents Research Award (2002) Project - Behaviour of Offshore Piles, 9000 Euro. HEA Capital Equipment Grant - Recipient of the Civil Engineering portion of this grant which was used to develop a number of instrumented model foundations and purchase a range of miniature stress sensors and data-logging equipment. |
| Sponsor : Enterprise Ireland (EI) Title : FP7 Coordinator Grant Start Date / End Date : 01-SEP-10 / 04-DEC-10 |
| Sponsor : Irish Research Council for Science Engineering and Technology (IRCSET) Title : Optimising the design of shallow foundations for the next generation of onshore wind turbines Start Date / End Date : 01-OCT-10 / 30-SEP-13 |
| Sponsor : Enterprise Ireland (EI) Title : Enterprise Ireland travel Fund Start Date / End Date : 08-SEP-10 / 31-DEC-10 |
| Sponsor : Irish Research Council for Science Engineering and Technology (IRCSET) Title : Improving the Efficiency and Reliability of Offshore Wind Turbine Foundations Start Date / End Date : 01-AUG-10 / 31-JUL-12 |
| Sponsor : Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Title : The development of offshore foundation systems for wind energy Start Date / End Date : 01-AUG-10 / 31-JUL-14 |
| Sponsor : University College Dublin (UCD) Title : A comparative investigation of the installation stresses on closed and open ended model piles in soft clay Start Date / End Date : 17-MAY-10 / 16-NOV-11 |
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| Sponsor : EC Framework Title : Advanced safety and driver support in essential road transport (ASSET Road) Start Date / End Date : 01-JUL-08 / 31-DEC-11 |
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| Sponsor : University College Dublin (UCD) Title : A mobile laboratory for field testing of offshore foundations systems Start Date / End Date : 01-JUN-07 / 01-DEC-08 |
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| Sponsor : Irish Research Council for Science Engineering and Technology (IRCSET) Title : Reliability analysis of foundations subjected to wind and wave loading Start Date / End Date : 01-OCT-06 / 01-OCT-09 |
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| Sponsor : Iarnrod Eireann Title : Stability of Man Made Slopes in Glacial Till Start Date / End Date : 01-JAN-03 / 31-DEC-08 |
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| Sponsor : University College Dublin (UCD) Title : Behaviour of Offshore Piles Start Date / End Date : 01-MAY-02 / 30-APR-03 |
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| Sponsor : ESB International Ltd. Title : Research on Wind Turbine Foundations Start Date / End Date : 01-AUG-03 / 31-OCT-08 |
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| Sponsor : MCOS Title : Candidate: David Gallagher. Experimental Investigation of the Axial Capacity of Piles in Clay Start Date / End Date : 01-DEC-02 / 31-MAR-04 |
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| Sponsor : RPS Group Ltd, Ireland Title : Experimental investigation of offshore piles Start Date / End Date : 01-OCT-06 / 01-OCT-07 |
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| Farrell, E.R., Long, M., Gavin, K. Henry, T.; (2006) 'Chapter 4: Geotechnics of Landslides' In: Creighton, R (eds). Landslides in Ireland. Dublin: Geological Survey of Ireland. [Details] |
| NiNuallain, Nora Aine, O'Connor, Alan and Gavin, Kenneth (Ed.). (2006) Proceedings of the 3rd National Bridge and Transportation Infrastructure Symposium. Dublin: [Details] |
| Kenneth Gavin, David Igoe and Lisa Kirwan (2012) 'The effect of ageing on the axial capacity of piles in sand'. Ice Geotechnical Engineering Journal, . [Details] |
| Tolooiyan, A. and Gavin, K.; (2012) 'The base resistance of non-displacement piles in sand. Part 2: finite element analysis'. Ice Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, . [Details] |
| Gavin, K., Cadogan, D., Tolooiyan, A. and Casey, P.; (2012) 'The Base Resistance of non-displacement piles in Sand. Part 1: Field Tests'. Ice Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, . [Details] |
| Paul Doherty and Kenneth Gavin (2012) 'Axial cyclic and rapid load tests on displacement piles in soft clay'. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 138 (8):1022-1026. [Details] |
Gavin. K , and Tolooiyan. A; (2012) 'An Investigation of Correlation Factors Linking Footing Resistance on Sand with Cone Penetration Test Results'. Computers and Geotechnics, 46 :84-92.  [Details] |
| Gavin, K, Igoe, D & Doherty, P; (2011) 'Piles for offshore wind turbines: A state of the art review'. Ice Geotechnical Engineering Journal, Volume 164 (4):245-256. [DOI] [Details] |
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| David Igoe and Kenneth Gavin; (2011) 'The Shaft Capacity of Pipe Piles in Sand'. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, . [DOI] [Details] |
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| Doherty, P & Gavin, K; (2011) 'The shaft capacity of displacement piles in clay: A state of the art review'. International Journal of Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, 29 (4):389-410. [DOI] [Details] |
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| Kenneth Gavin; (2011) 'Case study of an project based learning course in civil engineering design'. European Journal of Engineering Education, 36 (6). [DOI] [Details] |
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| Tolooiyan, A,Gavin, K; (2011) 'Modelling the Cone Penetration Test in sand using Cavity Expansion and Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian Finite Element Methods'. Computers and Geotechnics, 38 :482-490. [DOI] [Details] | |||||||||
| Paul Doherty and Kenneth Gavin; (2011) 'The shaft capacity of open-ended piles in clay'. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, . [Details] | |||||||||
| Donohue, S., Gavin, K. and Tolooiyan, A.; (2011) 'Geophysical and geotechnical assessment of a railway embankment failure'. Near Surface Geophysics, 9 (1):33-44. [DOI] [Details] |
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| Kenneth Gavin; (2010) 'Design of the curriculum for a second-cycle course in civil engineering in the context of the Bologna framework'. European Journal of Engineering Education, . [Details] | |||||||||
| Kenneth Gavin, David Gallagher, Paul Doherty and Bryan McCabe; (2010) 'Field investigation of the effect of installation method on the shaft capacity of piles in clay'. Canadian Geotechnical Journal, . [Details] | |||||||||
| Kenneth Gavin and Jianfeng Xue; (2010) 'Design charts for the stability analysis of unsaturated soil slopes'. International Journal of Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, . [Details] | |||||||||
| Paul Doherty, Kenneth Gavin and David Gallagher; (2010) 'Field investigation of the base resistance of pipe piles in clay'. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers-Geotechnical Engineering, 163 (1):13-22. [Details] | |||||||||
| Igoe, D,Doherty, P,Gavin, K; (2010) 'The development and testing of an instrumented open-ended model pile'. Geotechnical Testing Journal, 33 (1):72-82. [Details] | |||||||||
| Gavin, K,Cadogan, D,Twomey, L; (2008) 'Axial resistance of CFA piles in Dublin Boulder Clay'. P I CIVIL ENG-GEOTEC, 161 :171-180. [DOI] [Details] | |||||||||
| Kenneth Gavin, Abidemi Adekunte and Brendan O'Kelly; (2009) 'A field investigation of vertical footing response on sand'. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers-Geotechnical Engineering, 162 (5):257-267. [DOI] [Details] | |||||||||
| Kenneth Gavin; (2009) 'Development of Design Practice for Piles in Stiff Glacial Till'. Journal of the deep foundations institute, 3 (1):22-31. [Details] | |||||||||
| Kenneth Gavin, David Cadogan and Patrick Casey; (2009) 'The Shaft Capacity of CFA piles in Sand'. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 135 (6):790-798. [Details] | |||||||||
| Kenneth Gavin and Jianfeng Xue; (2009) 'Use of a Genetic Algorithm to perform Reliability Analysis of unsaturated soil slopes'. Geotechnique, 59 (6):545-549. [DOI] [Details] | |||||||||
| Gavin, K., Xue, J. F., ; (2008) 'A simple method to analyze infiltration into unsaturated soil slopes'. Computers and Geotechnics, 35 (2):223-230. [Details] | |||||||||
| J.Xue and K.Gavin; (2008) 'Effect of rainfall intensity on infiltration into partly saturated slopes'. International Journal of Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, 26 (2):199-209. [DOI] [Details] | |||||||||
| K.G.Gavin & B.M.Lehane; (2007) 'Base Load-Displacement Response of Piles in Sand'. Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 44 (9):1053-1063. [Details] |
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| Xue, JF, Gavin, K, ; (2007) 'Simultaneous determination of critical slip surface and reliability index for slopes'. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 133 (7):878-886. [Details] | |||||||||
| Gavin, KG, OKelly, BC, ; (2007) 'Effect of friction fatigue on pile capacity in dense sand'. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 133 (1):63-71. [Details] | |||||||||
| Lehane, BM; Gavin, KG; ; (2004) 'Discussion of Determination of bearing capacity of open-ended piles in sand by Kyuho Paik and Rodrigo Salgado'. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 130 (6):656-658. [Details] | |||||||||
| K.G.Gavin & B.M.Lehane; (2003) 'The Shaft capacity of pipe piles in sand'. Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 40 (1):36-45. [Details] | |||||||||
| B.M.Lehane & K.G.Gavin.; (2001) 'Base Resistance of Jacked Pipe Piles in sand'. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 127 (6):473-480. [Details] | |||||||||
| Paul Doherty and Kenneth Gavin; (2012) 'A review of current monopile design practice for offshore wind turbines'. Proceedings of the ICE - Energy, 165 (EN1):7-17. [Details] | |||||||||
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| Doherty P., Casey B. and Gavin K. ; (2010) 'Laying foundations for sustainable energy Geotech challenges facing the offshore wind sector' The Engineers Journal 64 (6) :262-266. [Details] |
| Gavin, K,Gallagher, D.; (2005) 'Development of Shaft Friction on Driven Piles in Sand and Clay'' Trans Engineers Ireland . [Details] |
| K Gavin and B Lehane; (2000) 'Research on the axial capacity of pipe piles in sand' Proccedings of the Institution of Engineers of Ireland 124 :34-47. [Details] |
| Kenneth Gavin (2012) The use of case histories to encourage reflection by civil engineering design students . In: Bryan McCabe and Marina Pantazidou eds. Shaking the Foundations of Geotechnical Engineering Galway, , 05-JUL-12 - 07-JUL-12 [Details] |
| Tiernan Byrne, Paul Doherty, Ken Gavin and Robert Overy (2012) Pile driving measurements from offshore platforms Society of Underwater Technology [Details] |
| Shane Donohue, Kenneth Gavin and Ali Tolooiyan (2012) Railway earthwork stability assessment using geophysics International Conference on Site Characterisation [Details] |
| David Igoe, Ken Gavin, Brendan O¿Kelly and Brian Byrne (2012) The use of in-situ site investigation techniques for the axial design of offshore piles International Conference on Site Characterisation [Details] |
| OBrien, E.J., Taheri, A., Gavin, K. (2012) Influence of Subgrade Subsidence on Train Track Dynamic Interaction CIVIL-COMP Gran Canaria, Spain, [DOI] [Details] |
| Gavin, K., O'Connor, A.J., OBrien, E.J., Tucker, M. (2012) Sustainable Maintenance and Analysis of Rail Transport Infrastructure (SMART rail) . In: A.J. O'Connor, C.C. Caprani eds. Bridge & Concrete Research in Ireland , pp.529-533 [Details] | |||||||||
| Kenneth Gavin (2012) Use of project based learning to teach geotechnical design skills to civil engineering students Shaking the Foundations of Geotechnical Engineering , 05-JUL-12 - 07-JUL-12 [Details] | |||||||||
| Doherty P., Gavin K. and Casey B.; (2011) The geotechnical challenges facing the offshore wind sector Geofrontiers Dallas, Texas, USA, , 13-MAR-11 - 16-MAR-11 [Details] | |||||||||
| S.Donohue, M.Long, K.Gavin & P.O'Connor; (2004) Shear Wave Stiffness of Irish Glacial Till International Conference of Site Characrterisation Porto, Portugal, , pp.459-466 [Details] | |||||||||
| Donohue, S., Long, M, O'Connor, P. and Gavin, K.; (2004) Use of multichannel analysis of surface waves in determining Gmax for soft clay Proc 2nd. Int Conf on Geotechnical Site Characterisation, ISC'2 Porto, , pp.459-466 [Details] | |||||||||
| Gavin, K. O'Kelly, B. Adekunte, A. and Donohue, S.; (2005) The use of the cone penetration test to derive parameters for shallow foundation design International Conference on Soil-Structure Interaction: Calculation Methods and Engineering Practice St. Petersburg, , 26-MAY-05 - 28-MAY-05 , pp.455-460 [Details] | |||||||||
| Gavin, K & Doherty, P; (2011) The importance of measuring small strain stiffness in site investigations for wind farm foundations Geophysical Association of Ireland, Seminar on Engineering Geophysics Dublin, , pp.46-49 [Details] | |||||||||
| Gavin K., Doherty P., Bevin J. and Twomey L.; (2010) Use of non-linear load-settlement model for predicting pile behaviour Proc. of the Bridge and Infrastructure Research Conference Cork, Ireland, [Details] | |||||||||
| Doherty P. and Gavin K.; (2010) The installation resistance of open-ended piles . In: S. Springman eds. Proc. of the International Conference on Physical Modelling Zurich, Switzerland, , 27-JUN-10 - 30-JUN-10 , pp.751-756 [Details] | |||||||||
| Doherty P., Igoe D. and Gavin K. ; (2010) Instrumented static pile load testing Field procedures, data interpretation and recent developments Proc. of the Bridge, Concrete and Infrastructure Conference Cork, Ireland, [Details] | |||||||||
| Pedro de Alba, Kenneth Gavin, Monica Prezzi and Theodoros Triantafyllidis; (2010) Dynamic Properties of Soil: Laboratory and Field Methods, Large Scale Testing, General Report on Session 1 . In: Shamsher Prakash eds. 5th International Conference in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics [Details] | |||||||||
| Ali Tolooiyan, Kenneth Gavin and David Cadogan; (2010) Finite element analysis of the Cone Penetration Test for the design of bored piles . In: Paul Mayne eds. 2nd International Symposium on Cone Pentration Tetstin (CPT10) [Details] | |||||||||
| David Igoe, Kenneth Gavin and Brendan O'Kelly; (2010) Field tests using an instrumented model pipe pile in sand . In: Springman, Laue and Seward eds. International Conference on Physical Modelling in Geotechnical Engineering Zurich, , 27-JUN-10 - 30-JUN-10 , pp.775-780 [Details] | |||||||||
| Paul Doherty and Kenneth Gavin; (2010) A comparative investigation of the installation stresses on closed and open-ended model piles in soft clay . In: Springman, Laue and Seward eds. International Conference on Physical Modelling in Geotechnical Engineering Zurich, , 27-JUN-10 - 30-JUN-10 , pp.751-756 [Details] | |||||||||
| David Cadogan, Kenneth Gavin and Ali Tolooiyan; (2010) Physical model testing and FE analyses of the base resistance of bored piles in sand . In: Springman, Laue and Seward eds. International Conference on Physical Modelling in Geotechnical Engineering Zurich, , 27-JUN-10 - 30-JUN-10 , pp.739-744 [Details] | |||||||||
| Paul Doherty and Kenneth Gavin; (2010) A statistical review of CPT data and the implications for pile design . In: Paul Mayne eds. 2nd International Symposium on Cone Pentration Tetstin (CPT10) California, , 10-MAY-10 - 13-OCT-10 [Details] | |||||||||
| Doherty P. and Gavin K.; (2009) Experimental investigation of the effect of shearing rate on the capacity of piles in soft silt . In: Iskander M., Laefer D., and Hussein M eds. In, A.S.C.E. Contemporary Topics in Deep Foundations G.S.P. 185, Proc. of the International Foundation Congress and Equipment Expo Orlando, Florida, USA, , 15-MAR-09 - 19-MAR-09 , pp.575-582 [Details] | |||||||||
| Paul Doherty and Kenneth Gavin; (2008) Degradation of axial shaft resistance of piles in soft clay due to cyclic loading . In: Shamsher Prakash eds. 6th International Conference on Case Histories Arlington, Virginia, , 11-JUL-02 - 16-JUL-08 , pp.1-8 [Details] | |||||||||
| Rodrigo Salgado, Dipanjan Basu, Kenneth Gavin, Sanjeev Kumar, Gloria Alvarez and Syed Ahmad; (2008) Analysis, design, testing and performance of foundations . In: Shamser Prakash eds. 6th International Conference on Case Histories Arlington, Virginia, USA, , 11-JUL-08 - 16-NOV-08 , pp.1-24 [Details] | |||||||||
| David Igoe, Kenneth Gavin and Brendan O¿Kelly; (2008) Field measurement of the base resistance of a pipe pile in medium dense sand . In: Brown et al eds. 2nd International Conference on Foundation Behaviour Dundee, , 24-JUN-08 - 28-JUN-08 , pp.149-158 [Details] | |||||||||
| Doherty P. and Gavin K.; (2008) Degradation of axial shaft resistance of piles in soft clay due to cyclic loading . In: Prakash, S eds. In Proc. of the 6th International Conference on Case Histories Arlington, Virginia, USA, , 11-AUG-08 - 16-AUG-08 [Details] | |||||||||
| Bryan Mc Cabe, Kenneth Gavin and MAeve Kenneally; (2008) Installation of a reduced ¿scale pile group in silt . In: Brown et al eds. 2nd International Conference on foundation behaviour Dundee, , 24-JUN-08 - 28-JUN-08 , pp.607-616 [Details] | |||||||||
| Jianfeng Xue and Kenneth Gavin; (2008) Infiltration analysis in unsaturated soil slopes . In: David Toll eds. First European Conference on Unstaurated Soil Durham University, , 02-JUL-08 - 04-JUL-08 , pp.823-827 [Details] | |||||||||
| Donohue, S., Long, M., Gavin, K. and O'Connor, P.; (2004) The Use of multichannel analysis of surface waves in determining Gmax for soft clay Conference on International Site Characterization 2 (ISC 2) Porto, Portugal, , 19-SEP-04 - 22-SEP-04 , pp.459-466 [Details] | |||||||||
| David Gallagher and Kenneth Gavin; (2007) An investigation of the effect of partial plugging on the shaft capacity of open-ended piles in clay . In: Howard Olsen eds. GeoDenver 2007 Denver, [Details] | |||||||||
| Kenneth Gavin, David Gallagher and Bryan McCabe; (2007) Design of Piles in Soft Clay Proceedings of Seminar of Soft Ground Engineering [Details] | |||||||||
| Jianfeng Xue and Kenneth Gavin; (2007) Validation and application of reliability analysis of soil slopes using a global optimisation method First International Symposium on Geotechnical Risk and Safety Shanghai, [Details] | |||||||||
| Donohue, S., Gavin, K., Long, M. and O'Connor, P. ; (2003) Gmax from Multichannel Analysis of Surface Waves for Dublin Boulder Clay . In: Vanicek et al eds. XIIIth European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Vol. 2 Prague, , pp.515-520 [Details] | |||||||||
| Gavin, K., Xue, J.F. Jennings, P.; (2006) Assessment of the effect of pore pressures on the behaviour of railway foundations XIIth Danube-European Conference on Geotechnical Engineering Lubjana, [Details] | |||||||||
| Cadogan, D. Gavin, K.; (2006) Examination of Scale Effects During Field Tests on Model Bored Piles in Over-Consolidated Sand . In: Ng,Zhang and Wang eds. International Conference on Physical Modelling in Geotechnical Engineering Hong Kong, [Details] | |||||||||
| Gallagher, D. Gavin, K.; (2006) Experimental Investigation of Local Stress Changes on Closed Ended Pile in Silt During Load Testing International Symposium on Ultimate Limit States of Geotechnical Structures Paris, , 23-AUG-06 - 25-AUG-06 [Details] | |||||||||
| Gavin, K., Chatta, I. O'Kelly, B.; (2006) Field Measurements of Horizontal Stress on an Instrumented Pile in Sand . In: D.DeGroot eds. GeoCongress, Geotechnical Engineering in the Information Age Atlanta, , 21-FEB-06 - 24-FEB-06 [Details] | |||||||||
| Gavin, K, Adekunte, A.; (2006) Physical Modelling of Onshore Wind Turbine Foundation Behaviour . In: Ng,Zhang and Wang eds. International Conference on Physical Modelling in Geotechnical Engineering Hong Kong, China, [Details] | |||||||||
| David Gallagher and Kenneth Gavin; (2006) Investigation of depth effects on shaft friction of piles in Clay 19th Australasian Conference on the Mechanics of Structures and Material [Details] | |||||||||
| Jianfeng Xue and Kenneth Gavin; (2006) Infiltration analysis for partly saturated soil slopes 3rd National Bridge and Transportation Infrastructure Symposium [Details] | |||||||||
| David Igoe, Kenneth Gavin and Brendan O'Kelly; (2006) The base resistance of an open-ended pile installed in medium dense sand Proceedings of the 3rd National Bridge and Transportation Infrastructure Symposium [Details] | |||||||||
| David Cadogan, Kenneth Gavin and Lloyd Twomey; (2006) Axial Capacity of CFA piles 3rd National Bridge and Transportation Infrastructure Symposium [Details] | |||||||||
| Paul Doherty, Paul Casey and Kenneth Gavin; (2006) Suitability of Macamore clay as an embankment fill and the role of soil suction in embankment stability 3rd National Bridge and Transportation Infrastructure Symposium [Details] | |||||||||
| David Gallagher and Kenneth Gavin; (2006) Experimental Investigation of Open and Closed Ended Piles in Clay 19th Australasian Conference on the Mechanics of Structures and Material [Details] | |||||||||
| Long, M., Brangan, C. and Gavin, K.; (2002) Behaviour of cantilever retaining walls 4th. Int. Sym. on Geotechnical Aspects of Underground Construction in Soft Ground (IS-Toulouse 2002), Toulouse, France, October Toulouse, France, [Details] | |||||||||
| Gavin, K. Lehane, B.; (2005) Estimating the end bearing resistance of pipe piles in sand using the final filling ratio . In: S.Gouvernec and M.Cassidiy eds. Proceedings of International Symposium on Offshore Geotechnics Perth, , 26-SEP-05 - 28-SEP-05 [Details] | |||||||||
| Abidemi Adekunte, K.Gavin & Bernard Casey; (2005) Comaprison of monitored wind turbine behaviour with design prediction International Conference on Soil-Structure Interaction: Calculation Methods and Engineering Practice Saint Petersburg, , 26-MAY-05 - 28-MAY-05 [Details] | |||||||||
| Gavin K., O'Kelly B., Adekunte A., Casey B. and Donohue S.; (2005) Use of the Cone Penetration Test to derive parameters for shallow foundation design International Conference on Soil-Structure Interaction: Calculation Methods and Engineering Practice Saint Petersburg, , 26-MAY-05 - 28-MAY-05 , pp.455-460 [Details] | |||||||||
| Cadogan, D. Gavin, K.; (2005) Field Tests on Model Bored Piles in Over-Consolidated Sand' 2nd International Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference Osaka, [Details] | |||||||||
| K.Gavin and B.Lehane; (2005) Estimating the end bearing resistance of pipe piles in sand using the final filling ratio International Symposium on Offshore Geotechnics Perth, [Details] | |||||||||
| David Gallagher, Kenneth Gavin and Bryan Mc Cabe; (2005) Use of in-situ test methods to model the installation process of closed ended piles in soft clay International Symposium on Pressuremeter Testing Paris, France, [Details] | |||||||||
| D.Gallagher, K.Gavin, B.McCabe & B.Lehane; (2004) Experimental investigation of the Response of a Driven Pile in Soft Silt 18th Australasian Conference on the Mechanics of Structures and Material Perth, [Details] | |||||||||
| O'Sullivan and Gavin; (2004) Exploring the micro mechanisms of open ended piles via discrete element modelling SPECIAL PUBLICATION- ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY, 2004, VOL 292, pages 193-204 ISSN: 0260-6291 , pp.193-204 [Details] | |||||||||
| K.Gavin & BM Lehane; (2003) End Bearing Resistance of Small Diameter Pipe Piles in Dense Sand Proceedings of the International Conference on Foundation Behaviour Dundee, , pp.321-230 [Details] | |||||||||
| K.Gavin; (2003) Construction Technologies-Chairman's Report Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering Prague, Czech Republic, , pp.375-378 [Details] | |||||||||
| K.G.Gavin, C Prieto, and B.M.Lehane; (2003) The development of skin friction on pipe piles in sand Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering Prague, Czech Republic, , pp.161-166 [Details] | |||||||||
| Prieto, C.P, and Gavin, K.G; (2002) Research on the base capacity of pipe piles in sand European Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference Dublin, Ireland, [Details] | |||||||||
| K.Gavin; (2000) The Shaft Capacity of Pipe Piles Proceeding of First International Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference southampton, [Details] | |||||||||
| K.G. Gavin and B.M. Lehane; (1998) Estimating end bearing capacities of driven piles in sand using In-situ tests Proceedings VII International Conference On Piling and Deep Foundations Vienna, Austria, [Details] | |||||||||
| K.G. Gavin and B.M. Lehane; (1997) The Behaviour of open and closed ended piles jacked into loose sand Proceedings of the XIV International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering Hamburg, Germany, , pp.1159-1162 [Details] | |||||||||
| K.G. Gavin and B.M. Lehane; (1996) The reliability of conventional design methods for driven piles in sand Proceedings VI International Conference On Piling and Deep Foundations Bombay, , pp.51-56 [Details] | |||||||||
| Kenneth Gavin, Paul Doherty, Lloyd Twomey and Jaime Bevin; (2011) Installation and static load resistance of pipe piles in glacial till 15th European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering Athens, Greece, , 12-SEP-11 - 15-SEP-11 [Details] | |||||||||
| Paul Doherty, Kenneth Gavin and Bernard Casey; (2011) A parametric study on pile drivability for large diameter offshore monopiles 15th European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering Athens, Greece, , 12-SEP-11 - 15-SEP-11 [Details] | |||||||||
| Paul Doherty, Kenneth Gavin and Weichao Li; (2011) The impact of soil autocorrelation on pile load-displacement behaviour 2011 Pan-Am CGS Geotechnical Conference Toronto, , 02-OCT-11 - 06-OCT-11 [Details] | |||||||||
| Doherty, P & Gavin, K; (2011) Aged reloading of piles in clay Deep Foundations Institute 36th Annual Conference 2011 Boston, , 18-OCT-11 - 21-OCT-11 [Details] | |||||||||
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| David Cadogan and Kenneth Gavin; (2008) Application of recent research to design of piles in sand and gravel. Institution of Structural Engineers: Invited Seminars [Details] |
| T. Orr, E. Farrell, T. Paul and K Gavin; (2000) National Report on Limit State Design in Geotechnical Engineering: Ireland. Workshops [Details] |
| Association: Chartered Engineer, Secretary of the Geotechnical Society of Ireland, Function/Role: * |
| Association: Member of International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering Technical Committees on Pile Foundations and Unsaturated Soil Mechanics, Function/Role: * |
| Committee : First Year Co-Ordinators Committee |
| Employer: Ove Arup & Partners Position: Senior Geotechnical Engineer |
| Employer: Trinity College Dublin Position: Post Graduate Research Assistant |
| Year 1998 Institution: Trinity College Dublin Qualification: PhD Subject: |
| Year 1994 Institution: Queens University Belfast Qualification: BEng Subject: Civil Engineering |
| My teaching philosophy is informed by my experience as a researcher and practicing engineer. The modules I coordinate incorporate the widespread use of Enquiry Based Learning (EBL) and optimize the use of the following; (i) Student centred active learning, (ii) the use of case histories, and (iii) research oriented teaching. |
| 201200 CVEN40430 Civil Engineering: Soil-Structure Interaction |
| 201200 CVEN40170 Civil Engineering: Civil Engineering Design |
| 201200 CVEN40440 Civil Engineering: Professional Work Experience |
| In 2010 I developed a module, Soil-Structure Interaction, focused on student centred learning. The technical content is delivered through formal lectures. Weekly workshops accounting for >50% of the contact hours are held in which students predict the response of real structures. These proved to be effective in encouraging student participation in the module, promoting an even workload through the semester and encouraging peer to peer teaching. Feedback on student performance in each workshop was provided at the beginning of the next class and an (anonymous) review of each group¿s prediction was compared to the actual response at the start of the class. Thus detailed feedback and feed-forward was available to students throughout. Student feedback in an end of term questionnaire was very positive with 86% of the class giving the module an overall rating of 4 or 5 (on a scale of 1-5) and a similar number identifying the workshop's efficacy. A peer observation was conducted by Dr. Tim McMahon from UCD's centre for teaching and learning who summarized his report as follows: "Overall, it was clear that Dr Gavin has an effective and professional working relationship with his students and an approach to teaching that encourages active learning in class. He knows how to plan and deliver lectures to the highest professional standards. In the post-observation tutorial, Dr Gavin showed the ability and willingness to use critical reflection to identify possible enhancements to the learning experiences of his student through a honing of his already exemplary teaching skills". |
| My most significant contribution to curriculum design was in the development of a new ME programme in Civil Engineering between September 2008 and the launch of the course in September 2009. To aid the process I enrolled on the course Curriculum Design in the Centre for Teaching and Learning (CTL) at UCD. As part of the CTL course I reviewed global experience in the development of curricula for engineering courses, with particular reference to increasing student engagement and how to match learning outcomes to course design. This taught me the importance of establishing clear goals for the programme, consideration of the educational philosophy, course content, organization and sequence and evaluation/assessment in a holistic approach to the design of a programme to meet staff and student expectations. The goals of the programme were clearly set out in three concise graduate attributes. The educational philosophy adopted encouraged student centred learning by combining the delivery of core technical content through traditional lectures with enhanced use of enquiry based learning, design projects (with industry input) and the introduction of a significant research project. The content was designed so that all aspects of Fink¿s (2003) taxonomy of significant learning were addressed in the programme. The learning objectives set out by the professional accreditation body were mapped to content, with alignment of the assessment method adopted (e.g. summative exam, continuous assessment, thesis, presentation/interview etc.) and the teaching and learning activities, e.g. formal lecture, group work, design project etc with a core principle being that non-technical skills such as team-building, presentation skills etc. should be taught as integral components of technical modules, rather than as add on modules. The content and sequence design have shown to provide progression and opportunities for reflection at a programme level. |
| In 2010 I completed a Graduate Diploma in University Teaching and Learning at UCD. I have attended a number of workshops, conference sessions and conferences of geotechnical engineering education including most recently a special session at the European Conference of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Education in Athens, September 2012, and the International Conference Shaking the Foundations of Geotechnical Engineering, held at NUI Galway from the 4th to 6th of July 2012. I am a reviewer for the European Journal of Engineering Education and was a member of the scientific committee for the International Conference of Geotechnical Engineering Education held at NUI Galway in July 2012. In 2009 I trained as a peer observer of teaching at the UCD Centre for Teaching and Learning. As part of the training I was peer reviewed and I have performed a number of peer reviews for colleagues in the School. Whilst I benefited from being observed when teaching, acting as a reviewer has in many ways been more beneficial as I observe our programme through the eyes of our students. |
| My contributions to teaching during my time at UCD include the development of student centred modules that make significant use of enquiry based learning and reflective practice. To keep developing my teaching I have completed a diploma in teaching and learning at UCD, publish papers and review work in leading education journals. I also publish and participate in conferences on education. I continue to provide peer observation of teaching to colleagues. |
