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Citations
4494
World Ranking
2860
National Ranking
209

Overview

John H G Macdonald was affiliated with the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. Their research focused predominantly on Engineering, with a considerable emphasis on Civil and Structural Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Control and Systems Engineering, Computational Mechanics, and Aerospace Engineering as subfields.

Their work covered a spectrum of topics related to structural behavior and dynamics, including Structural Engineering and Vibration Analysis, Vibration and Dynamic Analysis, Fluid Dynamics and Vibration Analysis, Structural Health Monitoring Techniques, Railway Engineering and Dynamics, Seismic Performance and Analysis, and Icing and De-icing Technologies.

Macdonald published multiple papers in well-known scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets included Structures, Journal of Sound and Vibration, Engineering Structures, EURODYN, and Journal of Fluids and Structures.

Some of the recent papers attributed to their research contributions included:

  • Towards Civil Engineering 4.0: Concept, workflow and application of Digital Twins for existing infrastructure (2022) - Automation in Construction
  • Emergence of the London Millennium Bridge instability without synchronisation (2021) - Nature Communications
  • Seismic fragility models for typical non-engineered URM residential buildings in Malawi (2021) - Structures
  • Enhancing pantograph-catenary dynamic performance using an inertance-integrated damping system (2021) - Vehicle System Dynamics
  • Fragility curves for non-engineered masonry buildings in developing countries derived from real data based on structural surveys and laboratory tests (2021) - Soft Computing

Throughout their career, Macdonald collaborated frequently with several notable coauthors. These included R.E. White, Nicholas A Alexander, Raffaele De Risi, Mateusz Bocian, and Hisato Matsumiya.

Best Publications

  • Design of monopiles for offshore wind turbines in 10 steps

    Laszlo Arany;S. Bhattacharya;John Macdonald;S.J. Hogan

  • Closed form solution of Eigen frequency of monopile supported offshore wind turbines in deeper waters incorporating stiffness of substructure and SSI

    Laszlo Arany;Suby Bhattacharya;John H G Macdonald;John Hogan

  • Lateral excitation of bridges by balancing pedestrians

    John H.G Macdonald

  • Towards Civil Engineering 4.0: Concept, workflow and application of Digital Twins for existing infrastructure

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  • A unified approach to aerodynamic damping and drag/lift instabilities, and its application to dry inclined cable galloping

    John H G Macdonald;GL Larose

  • One-to-two global-local interaction in a cable-stayed beam observed through analytical, finite element and experimental models

    Vincenzo Gattulli;Marco Lepidi;John H.G. Macdonald;Colin A. Taylor

  • Variation of modal parameters of a cable-stayed bridge identified from ambient vibration measurements and FE modelling

    John H.G. Macdonald;Wendy E. Daniell

  • Simplified critical mudline bending moment spectra of offshore wind turbine support structures

    László Arany;Subhamoy Bhattacharya;John Macdonald;S. John Hogan

  • An analytical model to predict the natural frequency of offshore wind turbines on three-spring flexible foundations using two different beam models

    Laszlo Arany;Suby Bhattacharya;Sondipon Adhikari;S J Hogan

  • Two-degree-of-freedom inclined cable galloping—Part 1: General formulation and solution for perfectly tuned system

    John H.G. Macdonald;Guy L. Larose

  • Biomechanically Inspired Modeling of Pedestrian-Induced Vertical Self-Excited Forces

    Mateusz Bocian;John H. G. Macdonald;Jeremy F. Burn

  • Biomechanically-inspired modelling of pedestrian induced forces on laterally oscillating structures

    Mateusz Bocian;John H G Macdonald;J Burn

  • Pedestrian-induced vibrations of the Clifton Suspension Bridge, UK

    J. H. G. Macdonald

  • Improved finite element modelling of a cable-stayed bridge through systematic manual tuning

    Wendy E. Daniell;John H.G. Macdonald

  • Modal stability of inclined cables subjected to vertical support excitation

    Alicia Gonzalez-Buelga;Simon A Neild;DJ Wagg;John H G Macdonald

  • Two-degree-of-freedom inclined cable galloping: Part 2. Analysis and prevention for arbitrary frequency ratio

    John H.G. Macdonald;Guy L. Larose

  • Dynamic measurements of the Second Severn Crossing

    John H G Macdonald;EL Dagless;BT Thomas;Colin Anthony Taylor

  • Generalised modal stability of inclined cables subjected to support excitations

    John H G Macdonald;Matt S Dietz;Simon A Neild;Alicia Gonzalez-Buelga

  • Wind-induced response and excitation characteristics of an inclined cable model in the critical Reynolds number range

    JB Jakobsen;TL Andersen;John H G Macdonald;Nikolaos Nikitas

  • Vortex-induced vibrations of the Second Severn Crossing cable-stayed bridge—full-scale and wind tunnel measurements

    John H G Macdonald;P.A. Irwin;M. S. Fletcher

  • Evaluation of buffeting predictions of a cable-stayed bridge from full-scale measurements

    John H.G. Macdonald

  • Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Structural Dynamics, EURODYN 2011

    Mateusz Bocian;John H G Macdonald;J Burn

Frequent Co-Authors

Katsuichiro Goda
Katsuichiro Goda University of Western Ontario
Simon A Neild
Simon A Neild University of Bristol
David J. Wagg
David J. Wagg University of Sheffield
Alan R Champneys
Alan R Champneys University of Bristol
Subhamoy Bhattacharya
Subhamoy Bhattacharya University of Surrey
Joao Pombo
Joao Pombo University of Huddersfield
Michael I. Friswell
Michael I. Friswell Swansea University
Juliet Biggs
Juliet Biggs University of Bristol
Michael R Wisnom
Michael R Wisnom University of Bristol
Robert D. Adams
Robert D. Adams University of Bristol

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