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Conference papers
Papers listed by year (international list, followed by national list). Many of these papers are available to download from the University of Galway ARAN repository here.
International
Fattahi Masrour, F., McCabe, B.A., Buggy, F.J., Kissane, P., & Long, M. (2024) Surcharged embankments over peat in north-west Ireland: primary consolidation behaviour, Proceedings of the 19th Nordic Geotechnical Meeting (NGM 2024), Gothenburg, Sweden.
Kissane, P., Buggy, F.J., Ward, G., McCabe, B.A., Fattahi Masrour, F. & Towey, F. (2024) Staged construction of surcharged embankments over peat for a national road in Co. Donegal, Ireland, Proceedings of 18th European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 2388-2393.
McCabe, B.A., O’Dwyer, K.G. & Sheil, B.B. (2022) Pipe-jacking stoppages modelled using direct shear interface tests, Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Physical Modelling in Geotechnics, Daejeon, Korea, pp. 722-727.
McCabe, B.A. & Flynn, K.E. (2017) Hydraulic pile driving hammers: an assessment of energy transfer ratio, Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Seoul, Korea, Vol. 2, pp. 2697-2690.
Duggan, A.R., McCabe, B.A., Goggins, J. & Clifford, E. (2015) Carbonation in stabilized peat: an accelerated pilot study, Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Edinburgh, U.K., Vol. 5, pp. 2383-2388.
Sexton, B.G. & McCabe, B.A. (2015) Settlement reduction potential of vibro stone columns in creep-prone soils, Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Edinburgh, U.K., Vol. 3, pp. 1275-1280.
Flynn, K.N., McCabe, B.A. & Egan, D. (2014) Driven cast-in-situ piles in granular soil: applicability of CPT methods to pile capacity estimation, Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Penetration Testing, Las Vegas, U.S.A., paper #3-03.
Flynn, K.N., McCabe, B.A. & Egan, D. (2013) Axial load behaviour of a driven cast in situ pile in sand, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering, Chicago, U.S.A., Paper No. 2.49.
Sexton, B.G. & McCabe, B.A. (2013) A method of modelling stone column installation for use in conjunction with unit cell analyses, Proceedings of the International Conference on Installation Effects in Geotechnical Engineering, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, pp. 226-232.
Sexton, B.G. & McCabe, B.A. (2012) A preliminary numerical study of the improvement to secondary settlement offered by granular columns, Proceedings of the International Conference on Ground Improvement and Ground Control (ICGI 2012), Wollongong, Australia, pp. 685-690.
Flynn, K.N., McCabe, B.A. & Egan, D. (2012) Residual load development in cast in place piles – a review and new case history, Proceedings of IS Kanazawa / 9th International Conference on Testing and Design Methods for Deep Foundations, Kanazawa, Japan, pp. 765-773.
Sheil, B.B. & McCabe, B.A. (2012) A 3D finite element study of pile groups in soft clay, Proceedings of IS Kanazawa / 9th International Conference on Testing and Design Methods for Deep Foundations, Kanazawa, Japan, pp. 537-544.
McCabe, B.A. & Jaksa, M.B. (2012) Sport and soil mechanics – analogies to aid student learning, Proceedings of Shaking the Foundations of Geo-engineering Education (SFGE 2012), Galway, Ireland, pp. 281-286.
Manton, R., Duggan, A.R., Goggins, J., McCabe, B.A. & Clifford, E. (2012) Use of carbon calculation tools for sustainable cycle network design, Proceedings of the 7th Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems (SDEWES), Ohrid, Macedonia, pp. 201-202
Sheil, B.B. & McCabe, B.A. (2012) Predictions of friction pile group response using embedded piles in PLAXIS, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on New Developments in Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Nicosia, Cyprus, pp. 679-686.
Finnegan, J., Regan, J.T., McCabe, B.A. & Healy, M.G. (2012) Use of brashmats for clearfelling of forestry on peat: an Irish perspective, Proceedings of the 14th International Peat Congress (IPC), Stockholm, Sweden (Abstract No. 8)
Timoney, M.J., Quigley, P. & McCabe, B.A. (2012) Some laboratory mixing trials of Irish peats, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Ground Improvement (IS-GI), Brussels, Belgium, Vol. 2, pp. 511-520.
Reilly, C.C., McCabe, B.A. & Orr, T.L.L. (2012) Analysis of microtunnel jacking forces in alluvium and glacial till in Mullingar, Ireland, Proceedings of the ITA-AITES World Tunnel Congress, Bangkok, Thailand, pp. 750-751 (2-page abstract version).
Gavigan, D., Goggins, J. & McCabe, B.A. (2012) Strength and durability performance of stabilised soil block masonry units, Proceedings of International Association of Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE) Conference: Global Thinking in Structural Engineering: Recent Achievement, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.
Timoney, M.J., Quigley, P. & McCabe, B.A. (2011) The stabilisation of Irish peats, International Conference on Advances in Geotechnical Engineering (ICAGE 2011), Perth, Australia, pp. 633-638.
Curran, B.G. & McCabe, B.A. (2011) Measured jacking forces during slurry-shield microtunnelling in a boulder clay at Kilcock, Ireland, Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Athens, Greece, Vol. 3, pp. 1627-1632.
McCabe, B.A. & Egan, D. (2010) A review of the settlement of stone columns in soft soils, Ground Improvement and Geosynthetics: Proceedings of GeoShanghai 2010 International Conference, Shanghai, China; also ASCE Geotechnical Special Publication No. 207, Ground Improvement and Geo-synthetics, pp. 197-204.
Killeen, M.M. & McCabe, B.A. (2010) A numerical study of factors affecting the performance of stone columns supporting rigid footings on soft clay, Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering, Trondheim, Norway, pp. 833-838.
Killeen, M.M. & McCabe, B.A. (2009) Numerical modelling of pad footings supported by stone columns, Proceedings of the 4th International Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference, Alexandria, Egypt, pp. 2B 91-94.
Egan, D., Scott, W. & McCabe, B.A. (2008) Observed installation effects of vibro- replacement stone columns in soft clay, Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on the Geotechnics of Soft Soils - Focus on Ground Improvement, Glasgow, U.K., pp. 23-29.
McCabe, B.A., Gavin, K.G. & Kennelly, M.E. (2008) Installation of a reduced-scale pile group in silt, Proceedings of the 2nd BGA International Conference on Foundations, Dundee, U.K., Vol. 1, pp. 607-616.
McCabe, B.A., Phillips, D.T., Orr, T.L.L. & Murray, S.P. (2008) Geo-engineering education in Ireland – 2008 national report, Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Education and Training in the Geo-sciences, Constanza, Romania, pp. 203-208.
McCabe, B.A. & Phillips, D.T. (2008) Is geotechnical education meeting 21st century industry demands? The Irish position, Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Education and Training in the Geo-sciences, Constanza, Romania, pp. 493-497.
Phillips, D.T. & McCabe, B.A. (2008) Taking geotechnical education into the 21st century, Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Education and Training in the Geo-sciences, Constanza, Romania, pp. 439-442.
McCabe, B.A. & Phillips, D.T. (2008) Design lessons from full-scale foundation load tests, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Site Characterization, Taipei, Taiwan, pp. 615-620.
McCabe, B.A. & Lehane, B.M. (2008) Measured and predicted t-z curves for a driven single pile in lightly overconsolidated silt, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Site Characterization, Taipei, Taiwan, pp. 487-491.
Black, J.A., Sivakumar, V., Brown, J. & McCabe, B.A. (2007) An investigation into the performance of vibrated stone columns under triaxial loading conditions, Proceedings of the 14th European Conference of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Madrid, Spain, Vol. 3, pp 1433-1438.
Brown, W., Black, J.A., McCabe, B.A. & Sivakumar, V. (2006) Use of waste materials in ground improvement applications, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Problematic Soils, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
McCabe, B.A. & Lehane, B.M. (2006) Prediction of pile group response using a simplified non-linear finite element model, Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering, Graz, Austria, pp. 589-594.
Gallagher, D., Gavin, K. & McCabe, B. (2005) Use of in situ test methods to model the installation process of closed ended piles in soft clays, Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Pressuremeters, Paris, France, 519-526.
Gallagher, D., Gavin, K., McCabe, B., & Lehane B. (2004) Experimental investigation of the response of a driven pile in soft silt, 18th Australasian Conference on the Mechanics of Structures and Materials, Perth, Australia, Vol. 2, pp. 991-996.
Lehane, B.M., Jardine, R.J. & McCabe, B.A. (2004) Response of a pile group in clay to first-time one-way cyclic tension loading, Proceedings of the Skempton Memorial Conference, Advances in Geotechnical Engineering, London, K., Vol. 2, pp. 700-709.
McCabe, B.A. (2003) The behaviour of pile groups driven in Belfast soft silt, Proceedings of the 2nd International Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference, Constanza-Mamaia, Romania, pp. 43-44.
Lehane, B.M., Jardine, R.J. & McCabe, B.A. (2003) One-way axial cyclic tension loading of driven piles in clay, Proceedings of the 1st BGA International Conference on Foundations: Innovations, Observations, Design & Practice, Dundee, U.K., pp. 493-505.
McCabe, B.A. & Lehane, B.M. (2003) Stress changes associated with driving pile groups in clayey silt, Proceedings of the 13th European Conference of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Prague, Czech Republic, Vol. 2, pp. 271-276.
Lehane B.M. & McCabe B.A. (1999) Interaction effects in laterally loaded pile groups, Advances in Civil and Structural Engineering Practice, Edinburgh, U.K., Vol. 1, pp. 393-399.
National
O’Dwyer, K.G., Wadood, A., McCabe, B.A., Sheil, B.B. & Phillips, B.M. (2024) Selected collective learnings from a pipe-jacking drive database, Proceedings of the Civil Engineering Research in Ireland (CERI 2024) Conference, University of Galway, pp. 226-231.
McCabe, B.A., Buggy, F.J. & Fattahi Masrour, F. (2024) Embankments over blanket peat in Co. Donegal: interpretation of piezometer data, Proceedings of 44th International Association of Hydrogeologists (Irish group) Annual Conference, Tullamore, No. 5, pp. 9-15.
McCabe, B.A., Flynn, K.N. & Baxter, S. (2022) Correlation between uniaxial compression strength and point load index for Irish Caledonian granites, Proceedings of the Civil Engineering Research in Ireland (CERI 2022) Conference, TU Dublin/TCD, pp. 329-334.
O’Conchubhair, I., McCabe, B.A. & Timoney, M.J. (2018) Laboratory Push-In Resistance Tests (PIRT) in a cement-stabilised pseudo fibrous peat, Proceedings of the Civil Engineering Research in Ireland (CERI 2018) Conference, UCD, pp. 277-282.
O’Dwyer, K.G., McCabe, B.A., Sheil, B.B. & Hernon, D. (2018) Blackpool South Strategy project: analysis of pipe-jacking records, Proceedings of the Civil Engineering Research in Ireland (CERI 2018) Conference, UCD, pp. 265-270.
Zhang, W., McCabe, B.A. & Morrison, L. (2018) Stabilisation of a dredged marine sediment: geotechnical and contaminant leaching properties, Proceedings of the Civil Engineering Research in Ireland (CERI 2018) Conference, UCD, pp. 295-300.
McKeon, E.P, McCabe, B.A., Sexton, B.G., Cavalcante, M., Ibañez-Valle, J.L. & O’Connell, A.M. (2016) Heave-ho! A laboratory model of an underfloor environment incorporating pyritiferous fill, Proceedings of the Civil Engineering Research in Ireland (CERI 2016) Conference, NUI Galway, pp. 451-456.
Quigley, P., McCabe, B.A., Hunt, P. & Rodgers, M. (2016) Some geotechnical characteristics of soft soil deposits along the Terryland River Valley, Galway. Proceedings of the Civil Engineering Research in Ireland (CERI 2016) Conference, NUI Galway, pp. 439-444.
Flynn, K.N. & McCabe, B.A. (2016) Energy transfer ratio of hydraulic pile-driving hammers. Proceedings of the Civil Engineering Research in Ireland (CERI 2016) Conference, NUI Galway, pp. 703-708.
Baily, E., McCabe, B.A., Goggins, J. & Kieran, P. (2014) Real time monitoring and performance of retaining structures, Proceedings of the Civil Engineering Research in Ireland (CERI 2014) Conference, Queens University Belfast, pp. 229-234.
Gavigan, G., Goggins, J. & McCabe, B.A. (2012) Stabilised soil blocks for use in a European context, Proceedings of the Bridge and Concrete Research in Ireland Conference, DIT/TCD, pp. 301-306.
Duggan, A.R., McCabe, B.A., Goggins, J. & Clifford, E. (2012) Factors affecting embodied carbon and embodied energy associated with ground improvement techniques for construction on peat, Proceedings of the Bridge and Concrete Research in Ireland Conference, DIT/TCD, pp. 147-152.
Timoney, M.J., McCabe, B.A., Faherty, M. & Mac an tSearraigh, C. (2012) Dry soil mixing trials and scaled column testing with an Irish organic silt, Proceedings of the Bridge and Concrete Research in Ireland Conference, DIT/TCD, pp. 463-468.
Sexton, B.G., Killeen, M.M. & McCabe, B.A. (2012) Appraisal of current settlement prediction methods applicable to vibro replacement design, Proceedings of the Bridge and Concrete Research in Ireland Conference, DIT/TCD, pp. 141-146.
Curran, B.G. & McCabe, B.A. (2010) Prediction of surface settlements above shallow tunnels in Mullingar, Proceedings of the Joint Symposium on Concrete Research in Ireland (CRI10) and Bridge and Infrastructure Research in Ireland (BRI10), UCC/CIT, pp. 273-280.
Nimmons, G.J. & McCabe, B.A. (2008) A review of stone column field settlement data, Proceedings of the Joint Symposium on Concrete Research in Ireland (CRI08) and Bridge and Infrastructure Research in Ireland (BRI08), NUI Galway, pp. 401-408.
McCabe, B.A., Killeen, M.M. & Egan, D. (2008) Challenges faced in 3D finite element modelling of stone column construction, Proceedings of the Joint Symposium on Concrete Research and Bridge and Infrastructure Research in Ireland, NUI Galway, pp. 393-400.
Gavin, K., Gallagher, D. & McCabe, B. (2007) Design of piles in soft clay, Proceedings of Engineers Ireland Soft Ground Engineering Seminar, Portlaoise, 15th February 2007 (Paper 1.5).
McCabe, B.A. & Lehane, B.M. (2006) Prediction of pile group response using a simplified non-linear finite element model, Proceedings of the 3rd National Symposium on Bridge and Infrastructure Research in Ireland, TCD/UCD, Dublin, pp. 91-98.
