Professor Colin Taylor
FICE, B.Sc., PhD, C.Eng
Current positions
Emeritus Professor
Department of Civil Engineering
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Positions
University of Bristol positions
Emeritus Professor
Department of Civil Engineering
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Urban Living Pilot
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Civil EngineeringDates
01/06/2016 to 31/03/2018
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
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
Recent publications
01/06/2021Measurement techniques for column interface monitoring in an advanced gas cooled reactor model
Nuclear Engineering and Design
Design and Calibration of a Hall Effect System for Measurement of Six Degree-of-Freedom Motion within a Stacked Column
Sensors
Decarbonisation of the South West Peninsula’s Infrastructure System
Experimental and computational synergy for modelling an advanced gas‐cooled reactor core under seismic excitation
Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics
THEORETICAL FRAMING OF THE SEISMIC ROBUSTNESS AND RESILIENCE OF SMART CITIES AND INFRASTRUCTURE
Related people
Dr Matt Dietz
Research Fellow
Department of Civil Engineering
Dr Luiza Dihoru
Research Fellow
Department of Civil Engineering
Professor Adam Crewe
Professor of Earthquake Engineering
Department of Civil Engineering
Professor George Mylonakis
Chair in Geotechnics and Soil-Structure Interaction
Department of Civil Engineering
Dr Tony Horseman
Research Fellow
Department of Civil Engineering
