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Kenneth Gavin is affiliated with Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. Their primary area of research lies within the broad field of engineering, with a strong emphasis on civil and structural engineering. The scientist's work extends into various subfields including safety, risk, reliability and quality, ocean engineering, computational mechanics, and building and construction.

Their research focuses mainly on topics related to geotechnical engineering and underground structures, covering aspects such as soil mechanics, soil stabilization, and geotechnical analysis. Additional interests include fluid dynamics simulations and interactions, hydrology and sediment transport processes, as well as dam engineering and safety.

Recent papers authored by or involving Kenneth Gavin include:

  • Implications of climate change for railway infrastructure, 2021, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change
  • Influence of scour depth and type on p-y curves for monopiles in sand under monotonic lateral loading in a geotechnical centrifuge, 2020, Ocean Engineering
  • BIM-Enabled Infrastructure Asset Management Using Information Containers and Semantic Web, 2022, Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering
  • Assessment of long-term deformation of a tunnel in soft rock by utilizing particle swarm optimized neural network, 2021, Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology
  • Centrifuge Modeling of the Impact of Local and Global Scour Erosion on the Monotonic Lateral Response of a Monopile in Sand, 2020, Geotechnical Testing Journal

Kenneth Gavin has collaborated frequently with a number of coauthors over the course of their career. The most common collaborators include Amin Askarinejad, Kevin Duffy, Luke J. Prendergast, Meho Saša Kovačević, and Irina Stipanović.

Their publications have appeared predominantly in venues such as Ocean Engineering, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, Canadian Geotechnical Journal, and Road and Rail Infrastructure.

Best Publications

  • A review of bridge scour monitoring techniques

    Luke J. Prendergast;Kenneth Gavin

  • BASE RESISTANCE OF JACKED PIPE PILES IN SAND

    Barry Lehane;K.G. Gavin;K.G. Gavin

  • An investigation into the effect of scour on the natural frequency of an Offshore Wind Turbine

    Luke J. Prendergast;Kenneth Gavin;Paul Doherty

  • New design methods for large diameter piles under lateral loading for offshore wind applications

    Byron W. Byrne;Lidija Zdravkovic;Ross McAdam;Harvey J. Burd

  • Laterally loaded monopile design for offshore wind farms

    Paul Doherty;Kenneth Gavin

  • An Investigation of the Changes in the Natural Frequency of a Pile affected by Scour

    Luke J. Prendergast;David Hester;Kenneth Gavin;J. J. O'Sullivan

  • PISA: New Design Methods for Offshore Wind Turbine Monopiles

    B. W. Byrne;Ross A. McAdam;H. J. Burd;G. T. Houlsby

  • Case study of a project-based learning course in civil engineering design

    Kenneth Gavin

  • PISA design model for monopiles for offshore wind turbines: application to a stiff glacial clay till

    Byron W. Byrne;Guy T. Houlsby;Harvey J. Burd;Kenneth G. Gavin

  • PISA design model for monopiles for offshore wind turbines: application to a marine sand

    Harvey J. Burd;David M. G. Taborda;Lidija Zdravković;Christelle N. Abadie

  • A simple method to analyze infiltration into unsaturated soil slopes

    Kenneth Gavin;Jianfeng Xue

  • The shaft capacity of pipe piles in sand

    Kenneth G Gavin;Barry M Lehane

  • Effect of friction fatigue on pile capacity in dense sand

    Kenneth G. Gavin;Kenneth G. Gavin;Brendan C. O’Kelly;Brendan C. O’Kelly

  • Modelling the Cone Penetration Test in sand using Cavity Expansion and Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian Finite Element Methods

    Ali Tolooiyan;Kenneth Gavin

  • PISA: new design methods for offshore wind turbine monopiles

    Byron W. Byrne;Harvey J. Burd;Lidija Zdravković;Ross A. McAdam

  • Simultaneous Determination of Critical Slip Surface and Reliability Index for Slopes

    Jianfeng Xue;Kenneth Gavin

  • Numerical modelling of large diameter piles under lateral loading for offshore wind applications

    L. Zdravković;D. M G Taborda;D. M. Potts;R. J. Jardine

  • Finite-element modelling of laterally loaded piles in a dense marine sand at Dunkirk

    David M. G. Taborda;Lidija Zdravković;David M. Potts;Harvey J. Burd

  • Field testing of large diameter piles under lateral loading for offshore wind applications

    BW Byrne;RA McAdam;HJ Burd;GT Houlsby

  • Monotonic laterally loaded pile testing in a stiff glacial clay till at Cowden

    B Byrne;RA McAdam;HJ Burd;Wjap Beuckelaers

  • Effect of Rainfall Intensity on Infiltration into Partly Saturated Slopes

    Jianfeng Xue;Kenneth Gavin

  • Shaft Capacity of Open-Ended Piles in Clay

    Paul Doherty;Kenneth Gavin

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard J. Jardine
Richard J. Jardine Imperial College London
Byron W. Byrne
Byron W. Byrne University of Oxford
Harvey J. Burd
Harvey J. Burd University of Oxford
Guy T. Houlsby
Guy T. Houlsby University of Oxford
Lidija Zdravković
Lidija Zdravković Imperial College London
David M. Potts
David M. Potts Imperial College London
Barry Lehane
Barry Lehane University of Western Australia
Brendan C. O'Kelly
Brendan C. O'Kelly Trinity College Dublin
Eugene J. O'Brien
Eugene J. O'Brien University College Dublin
Patrick Doherty
Patrick Doherty King's College London

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