
Professor Colin Taylor
FICE, B.Sc., PhD, C.Eng
Current positions
Emeritus Professor
School of Civil, Aerospace and Design 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
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
Identification of the dynamic behaviour of a cable-stayed bridge from full scale testing during and after construction
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
21/03/2024Promoting sustainable urban freight through stakeholder engagement to co-create decarbonisation pathways in the UK
Research in Transportation Economics
Digital twins for civil infrastructure
Life-Cycle of Structures and Infrastructure Systems
Multi-scale structural integrity assessment of a series of identical components in cultural-heritage structures
Life-Cycle of Structures and Infrastructure Systems - Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering, IALCCE 2023
A mathematical framework for evaluation of column shape profiles for an advanced gas-cooled reactor core model subject to seismic excitation
Nuclear Engineering and Design
Towards Civil Engineering 4.0
Automation in Construction