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Dr. John Hickey
Assistant Professor, Civil Struct & Env. Eng.

Publications and Further Research Outputs

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Susam Boral, John Hickey, Biswajit Basu, Modelling and simulation of periodic dynamics of submarine cables with bending stiffness using time-domain and multi-harmonic balance methods, Proceedings of the Royal Society Pa, 482, (2331), 2026 Journal Article, 2026 URL

Hollie Moore , John Hickey , Brian Broderick , Breiffni Fitzgerald, Damping ratio identification of a volumetric modular high-rise building, Engineering Structures, 352, (122011), 2026 Journal Article, 2026 DOI URL TARA - Full Text

John Hickey, Mateo Pimoult, Fengshuo Liang, Ian O'Connor, Examining electricity demand profiles to inform sustainable on-site construction practices, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering Sustainability, 178, 2025 Journal Article, 2025 URL DOI

Hollie Moore, John Hickey, Brian Broderick, Breiffni Fitzgerald, Signal Processing of Acceleration Responses for Damping Ratio Identification of a High-Rise Modular Building, 17th IFAC Symposium on Large Scale Complex Systems: Theory and Applications, Dublin, Ireland, 2025 Conference Paper, 2025 TARA - Full Text DOI

Hollie Morre, John Hickey,Brian Broderick, Breiffni Fitzgerald,Vincent Barrett, Shane Linehan, Wind-induced vibration response of modular high-rise buildings, The Structural Engineer, 103, (5), 2025, p8 - 10 Journal Article, 2025 URL

James McAuliffe, Brian Broderick, John Hickey & Breiffni Fitzgerald, MITIGATING SEISMIC VULNERABILITY OF WIND TURBINES USING TUNED MASS DAMPERS AND INERTERS, 18th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Milan, Italy, 30th June - 5th July, 2024 Conference Paper, 2024 URL TARA - Full Text

Brian Broderick; John Hickey, Design for Manufacture and Assembly with Design for Reuse, CI-AHARDD01-TCD-R-01.01, Construct Innovate, February, 2024 Report, 2024 URL TARA - Full Text

Brian Broderick, Hollie Moore, Breiffni Fitzgerald, John Hickey, Validation of Acceleration Response Modelling for Modular High Rise Structures through Full Scale Monitoring, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Eurodyn 2023, 2647, IOP Publishing, 2024, pp242007 Conference Paper, 2024 URL

John Hickey, Tore Butlin, An Efficient Method for Calculating Hysteretic Dry Friction Response of Dynamic Systems Subjected to Combined Harmonic and Random Excitation, Journal of Structural Dynamics, 2024 Journal Article, 2024 TARA - Full Text URL

Hollie Moore, Breiffni Fitzgerald, John Hickey, Brian Broderick, The Effect of Acceleration Signal Length on the Outputs from Modal Identification Methods, 34th Irish Signals and Systems Conference (ISSC), 2023 Conference Paper, 2023 DOI TARA - Full Text

Brian Broderick, Hollie Moore, Breiffni Fitzgerald and John Hickey, Validation of Acceleration Response Modelling for Modular High Rise Structures through Full Scale Monitoring, XII International Conference on Structural Dynamics (EURODYN), Delft, 2023 Conference Paper, 2023 TARA - Full Text URL DOI

John Hickey, Tore Butlin, Robin Langely, Naoki Onozato, A time and ensemble equivalent linearization method for nonlinear systems under combined harmonic and random excitation, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, 2023 Journal Article, 2023 TARA - Full Text URL

John Hickey, Hollie Moore, Brian Broderick & Breiffni Fitzgerald, Damping Ratio Estimation for a Slender Modular Building from Full Scale Ambient Response Monitoring, Experimental Vibration Analysis for Civil Engineering Structures, Milan, 2023 Conference Paper, 2023 TARA - Full Text DOI

John Hickey, Hollie Moore, Brian Broderick, Breiffni Fitzgerald, Structural damping estimation from live monitoring of a tall modular building, The Structural Design of Tall and Special Buildings, 2023 Journal Article, 2023 DOI TARA - Full Text

John Hickey, Robin Langley, Alternative metrics for design decisions based on separating aleatory and epistemic probabilistic uncertainties, MECHANICAL SYSTEMS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, 2022 Journal Article, 2022 TARA - Full Text URL

John Hickey, Brian Broderick, Breiffni Fitzgerald, Hollie Moore, Mitigation of wind induced accelerations in tall modular buildings, Structures, 2022 Journal Article, 2022 DOI TARA - Full Text

J Hickey, B Broderick, Regression models for predicting the inelastic seismic response of steel braced frames, J of Constructional Steel Research, 194, (107338), 2022 Journal Article, 2022 TARA - Full Text DOI

R Banuru, B Broderick, J Hickey, SB Singh, Vibration serviceability of modular tall buildings, Stability and Failure of High Performance Composite Structures, 2022, p221 - 248 Journal Article, 2022 DOI

Hickey, J. and Broderick, B., Rapid Seismic Economic Loss Assessment for Steel Concentrically Braced Frames Designed to Eurocode 8, ce/papers, Eurosteel 2021, Sheffield, 4, (2-4), 2021, pp1856 - 1863 Conference Paper, 2021

Hickey, J. and Broderick, B., Influence of mean period of ground motion on inelastic drift demands in CBFs designed to Eurocode 8, Engineering Structures, 182, 2019, p172-184 Journal Article, 2019 URL

Hickey, J. and Broderick, B., Loss impact factors for lifetime seismic loss assessment of steel concentrically braced frames designed to EC8, Journal of Structural Integrity and Maintenance, 4, (3), 2019, p110-122 Journal Article, 2019 DOI TARA - Full Text

Terence Ryan, Brian Broderick, Suhaib Salawdeh, John Hickey, 11.44: An integrated experimental and numerical assessment of force-based design for concentrically braced steel frames, ce/papers, 1, (2-3), 2017, p3190 - 3199, p3190-3199 Journal Article, 2017 DOI

John Hickey, Brian Broderick, 11.49: Lifetime seismic performance assessment of steel frame structures, ce/papers, 1, (2-3), 2017, p3229 - 3238, p3229-3238 Journal Article, 2017 DOI

Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications

Anupam Das, Hoa Nguyen, John Hickey, Biswajit Basu, Comparison of Numerical and Analytical Models of Dynamic Cables for Floating Offshore Wind Turbines, 17th IFAC Symposium on Large Scale Complex Systems: Theory and Applications, Dublin, 12-14 August 2025 Conference Paper,

Research Expertise

Description

Structural dynamics and vibrations Dynamics problems in novel civil engineering structures Dynamics problems in renewable energy applications Uncertainty quantification and propagation in structural dynamics Nonlinear vibrations Wind induced vibrations of tall buildings Seismic response of steel frame buildings

Projects

  • Title
    • InDyCORE
  • Summary
    • Innovation in Dynamic Cables for Offshore Renewable Energy
  • Funding Agency
    • SEAI
  • Title
    • Vibration Control of Tall and Slender Strucutres
  • Funding Agency
    • Naughton Faculty Accelerator Fellowship

Recognition

Representations

a. Serving as the University Representative on the committee of the Irish regional branch of the Institution of Structural Engineers and as student liaison officer at TCD

Awards and Honours

Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE) Research Into Practice Award 2024

Memberships

Institute of Structural Engineers (IStructE)