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D-Index
55
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9961
World Ranking
3044
National Ranking
16

Eugene J. O'Brien publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Eugene J. O'Brien sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 378 publications — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Eugene J. O'Brien D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Eugene J. O'Brien sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 55 D-Index — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Overview

Eugene J. O'Brien is affiliated with University College Dublin in Ireland and has a significant research profile in the field of Engineering, specializing in Civil and Structural Engineering. Their work encompasses a broad range of studies with a focus on structural health monitoring and infrastructure maintenance.

The main fields of study for O'Brien are:

  • Engineering

Within Engineering, their contributions are concentrated in these subfields:

  • Civil and Structural Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Ecology
  • Mechanics of Materials
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Key research topics addressed by O'Brien include:

  • Structural Health Monitoring Techniques
  • Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring
  • Railway Engineering and Dynamics
  • Concrete Corrosion and Durability
  • Structural Engineering and Vibration Analysis
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Transport Systems and Technology

O'Brien has published extensively in various well-regarded academic venues. Frequent publication outlets for their research are:

  • Applied Sciences
  • Journal of Bridge Engineering
  • Engineering Structures
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Civil Structural Health Monitoring

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Eugene J. O'Brien include:

  • "Bridge health monitoring using deflection measurements under random traffic" (2020), published in Structural Control and Health Monitoring
  • "Experimental Demonstration of a Mode Shape-Based Scour-Monitoring Method for Multispan Bridges with Shallow Foundations" (2020), published in Journal of Bridge Engineering
  • "Identifying damage on a bridge using rotation-based Bridge Weigh-In-Motion" (2020), published in Journal of Civil Structural Health Monitoring
  • "Extracting mode shapes from drive-by measurements to detect global and local damage in bridges" (2020), published in Structure and Infrastructure Engineering
  • "Developing Digital Twins to Characterize Bridge Behavior Using Measurements Taken under Random Traffic" (2021), published in Journal of Bridge Engineering

O'Brien frequently collaborates with a group of co-authors, reflecting ongoing partnerships in research projects. Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Shuo Wang
  • Daniel McCrum
  • Lu Deng
  • Vikram Pakrashi
  • Abdollah Malekjafarian

Best Publications

  • The use of vehicle acceleration measurements to estimate road roughness

    Arturo González;Eugene J. O'Brien;Yingyan Li;K. Cashell

  • Identification of damping in a bridge using a moving instrumented vehicle

    Arturo González;Eugene J. O'Brien;P. McGetrick

  • Identification of bridge mode shapes using Short Time Frequency Domain Decomposition of the responses measured in a passing vehicle

    Abdollah Malekjafarian;Eugene J. O'Brien

  • A Review of Indirect Bridge Monitoring Using Passing Vehicles

    Abdollah Malekjafarian;Patrick J. McGetrick;Eugene J. OBrien

  • The use of a dynamic truck-trailer drive-by system to monitor bridge damping

    Jennifer Keenahan;Eugene J. OBrien;Patrick John McGetrick;Arturo Gonzalez

  • Calculating an influence line from direct measurements

    Eugene J. O'Brien;Michael Quilligan;Raid Karoumi

  • Bridge deck analysis

    Eugene J OBrien;Damien L Keogh;Alan J O'Connor

  • Theoretical investigation of the use of a moving vehicle to identify bridge dynamic parameters

    P. McGetrick;Arturo González;Eugene J. O'Brien

  • Effect of Vehicle Velocity on the Dynamic Amplification of a Vehicle Crossing a Simply Supported Bridge

    Sean P. Brady;Eugene J. O'Brien

  • Structural displacement monitoring using deep learning-based full field optical flow methods

    Chuan Zhi Dong;Ozan Celik;F. Necati Catbas;Eugene J. O’Brien

  • Traffic load modelling and factors influencing the accuracy of predicted extremes

    Alan O'Connor;Eugene J O'Brien

  • Monte Carlo simulation of extreme traffic loading on short and medium span bridges

    Bernard Enright;Eugene J. OBrien

  • Application of empirical mode decomposition to drive-by bridge damage detection

    Eugene J. OBrien;Abdollah Malekjafarian;Arturo González

  • Reduction of bridge dynamic amplification through adjustment of vehicle suspension damping

    Niall K. Harris;Eugene J. O'Brien;Arturo González

  • A mode shape-based damage detection approach using laser measurement from a vehicle crossing a simply supported bridge

    Eugene J. OBrien;Abdollah Malekjafarian

  • Contactless Bridge Weigh-in-Motion

    T. Ojio;Ciaran Carey;Eugene J. O'Brien;C. Doherty

  • On the use of a passing vehicle for the estimation of bridge mode shapes

    Abdollah Malekjafarian;Eugene J. OBrien

  • A general solution to the identification of moving vehicle forces on a bridge

    Arturo González;C. Rowley;Eugene J. O'Brien

  • A review of probabilistic methods of assessment of load effects in bridges

    Eugene John O'Brien;Frank Rainer Schmidt;Donya Hajializadeh;Xiao-Yi Zhou

  • Modeling Same-Direction Two-Lane Traffic for Bridge Loading

    Eugene J. OBrien;Bernard Enright

  • Characteristic traffic load effects from a mixture of loading events on short to medium span bridges

    Colin Christopher Caprani;Eugene O'Brien;Geoff McLachlan

Frequent Co-Authors

James M. W. Brownjohn
James M. W. Brownjohn University of Exeter
F. Necati Catbas
F. Necati Catbas University of Central Florida
Andy Collop
Andy Collop De Montfort University
Barry Lehane
Barry Lehane University of Western Australia
Mark G. Stewart
Mark G. Stewart University of Newcastle Australia
Mark F. Green
Mark F. Green Queen's University
Kenneth Gavin
Kenneth Gavin Delft University of Technology
Dirk P. Kroese
Dirk P. Kroese University of Queensland
Alan Brown
Alan Brown Harvard University
John Andrews
John Andrews University of Nottingham

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