Professor Colin Taylor
FICE, B.Sc., PhD, C.Eng
Current positions
Emeritus Professor
Department of Civil Engineering
Contact
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Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Urban Living Partnership: The Bristol Urban Area Diagnostics Pilot.
Principal Investigator
Description
Although the Bristol Urban Area can legitimately claim to be in the vanguard of urban transformation, its development pathway is also characterised by paradox and it needs to deal with…Managing organisational unit
School of EducationDates
15/06/2016 to 30/09/2017
Urban Living Pilot
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Civil EngineeringDates
01/06/2016 to 31/03/2018
Network Grant - Redistributed Manufacturing
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Mechanical EngineeringDates
01/04/2015 to 30/06/2017
Infrastructure Business Models
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Civil EngineeringDates
30/06/2013 to 29/04/2017
UK NETWORK FOR EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING SIMULATION (UK-NEES)
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Civil EngineeringDates
01/09/2006 to 01/09/2008
Thesis supervisions
A systems approach to asset management in the hydro-electric sector
Supervisors
Dynamic finite element modelling, measurement and updating of cable stayed bridges
Supervisors
Identification of the dynamic behaviour of a cable-stayed bridge from full scale testing during and after construction
Supervisors
Contributions to the understanding of deep excavations in stiff clay and stiffness anisotropy also pile shaft friction and sand-steel interfaces
Supervisors
The characterisation and optimisation of earthquake shaking table performance
Supervisors
Publications
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Recent publications
01/05/2022A mathematical framework for evaluation of column shape profiles for an advanced gas-cooled reactor core model subject to seismic excitation
Nuclear Engineering and Design
Digital Twins for civil engineering: the Clifton Suspension Bridge (UK)
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure, SHMII 10
Design and calibration of a hall effect system for measurement of six‐degree‐of‐freedom motion within a stacked column
Sensors
Design and Calibration of a Hall Effect System for Measurement of Six Degree-of-Freedom Motion within a Stacked Column
Sensors
Measurement techniques for column interface monitoring in an advanced gas cooled reactor model
Nuclear Engineering and Design
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