Alexandra Micu from CCIR won the best student paper in Bridge stream at CERI2018

Civil Engineering Research in Ireland (CERI2018) conference was jointly held with the Irish Transport Research Network (ITRN2018) conference at University College Dublin on 29-30 August. Mrs Alexandra Micu from UCD Civil Engineering won the best student paper award in Bridge Steam for the paper entitled ‘Estimation of traffic load effects on Forth Road Bridge using camera measurements’. She received a cash prize of €200 and a €750 travel bursary to present at an international conference in the next two years. The paper was co-authored by Ross McKinstray (Amey Consulting), Ewan Angus (Amey Consulting), Eugene O’Brien (University College Dublin), Abdollah Malekjafarian (University College Dublin), Myra Lydon (Queen’s University Belfast).