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Eamonn Cannon (Ó Canainn)

Senior Lecturer (retired)

Eamonn's interests include: Design of concrete structures, prestressed concrete, composite structures, non-linear behaviour, bridge deck behaviour, instrumentation of structures, computer-aided learning, durability of concrete and concrete technology.

Professional Qualifications

BE, MEng(Milan), DIC MSc(London), CEng MIStructE, MICE

Membership of Professional Bodies

Membership Type	From	To

Chartered Member of Institution of Structural Engineers (MIStructE)	1980	Present
Chartered Member of the Institute of Civil Engineers (CEng MICI)	1977	Present
Chartered Member of the Institute of Engineers of Ireland (CEng MIEI)	1980	lapsed
Member of the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE)
Irish Concrete Society (previously Branch Chair)
Member, National Eurocodes Advisory Group
Irish Liaison Engineer for Eurocode 2	2006	Present

Professional Experience

Student engineer experience in New York and London as vibroflotation supervisor and contract draughtsman.
Consulting engineering experience (1971-82) in Dublin, Milan (prestressed concrete specialists) and London (design of overbridges for UK Channel Tunnel Terminal and of water supply, commercial & industrial building projects in UK, United Arab Emirates & Iraq).
Design of blast-resistant headquarters building for major chemical company, Fife, Scotland.
Site engineer for Ninian Field central platform, Kishorn, Scotland. Seconded for design of Corrib Quincentennial bridge, Galway (1988).

Professional Qualifications

B.E., Dip.Ing. (Milan), D.I.C., M.Sc. (Lond.), C.Eng., M.I.C.E. MI.Struct.E

Academic Qualifications

University College Dublin BE degree; Pierce Malone Scholarship in Civil Engineering (1971)
Politecnico di Milano, Italy Postgraduate course in concrete structures (MEng.) (1974)
Imperial College London Postgraduate course in Steel Structures (DIC, MSc) (1980)
Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany Research on composite steel-concrete structures (1991-92)
Politecnico di Milano, Italy Sabbatical period (2003)
Technical University, Wroclaw, Poland Exchange visit (2003)
Universities of Tampere and Helsinki Exchange visits (2003)

Awards / Prizes

Pierce Malone Scholarship in Civil Engineering (National University of Ireland) (1971)
Italian Government Scholarship (1972)
Drury Medal for Design - Institution of Structural Engineers (UK) (1977)
Elected Corporate (Chartered) Member of Institution of Civil Engineers (UK), (1977) with commendation for essay ’of exceptional merit’ at ICE professional interview
Association of Consulting Engineers of Ireland and Irish Concrete Society Awards for design of the Quincentennial Bridge over the river Corrib, Galway. (1988)
German Government (DAAD) Scholarship (1991)
Universität Kaiserslautern research award (1992)
Elected Foundation Member of ESDEP (1994), on behalf of European Steel Construction Industry’in recognition of contribution made to development of the first pan-European training resource’

Appointments

External Examiner:

Institute of Concrete Technology (UK) Advanced Diploma in Concrete Technology
NCEA Certificate and Diploma courses in Civil Engineering (1995 to present)
Dublin Institute of Technology (M.Phil.) (2001)
Cork Institute of Technology (M.Eng. Sc.) (2003)
TCD (MSc.)

ESDEP: European Steel Design Education Programme (1990-94)

Irish Member of International Advisory Committee
Member of ESDEP Working Group 10: Composite Construction
Editor of lectures (detailed elsewhere)
Elected Foundation Member of ESDEP, on behalf of European Steel Construction Industry’in recognition of contribution made to development of the first pan-European training resource’

ECSN - European Concrete Societies Network: Irish representative at Annual Board Meetings in Stockholm (1999), Berlin (2000), Helsinki (2001), Vienna (2002)

Institution of Structural Engineers:

Member of Structural Codes Committee, London
Regional representative on National Committee

Irish Concrete Society

Past Chairman, (Western Region Committee)
Member, National Council
Member Concrete Durability sub-committee (Through this organisation, in particular, I have organised many external lectures over the years on engineering, architectural and construction themes)

Research Interests

Concrete Technology

Publications

Cannon, E. & West., R. (2008) (Editors) Proc. BRI08_CRI08 Joint Symposium: Bridge Research in Ireland 2008/Concrete Research in Ireland 2008 (NUI, Galway)

Cannon, E. (2008) Elements in flexure: some comparisons between BS8110 and Eurocode 2 provisions
Cannon, E. (2008) R.C. column design – a comparison of BS8110 and Eurocode 2 provisions.

(both in Proc. BRI08_CRI08 Joint Symposium: Bridge Research in Ireland 2008/Concrete Research in Ireland 2008 (NUI, Galway)

West., R. & Cannon, E. (2006) Eurocode 2 – an Irish perspective .

Proc. Bridge and Infrastructure Research in Ireland: Symposium (TCD)

Cannon, E. (2005) An explicit approach to reinforced concrete column design.

Proc. 4 ^th Colloquium on Concrete Research in Ireland (UCD)

Cannon, E . & O’Byrne, C. (2004) Early-age temperature effects in a concrete box-girder bridge.

Proc. 2 ^nd Symposium on Bridge Engineering in Ireland, Queen’s University Belfast.

Cannon, E . & O’Byrne, C. (2003) In-situ instrumentation of concrete structures: a case study.

Proc. 3 ^rd Colloquium on Concrete Research in Ireland, Queen’s University Belfast.

Cannon, E. & Conneely, M. (2001) Development of a computer-aided learning application for reinforced concrete detailing. Proc. 2 ^nd Colloquium on Concrete Research in Ireland, NUI, Galway.
Cannon, E. & Waters, R . (2001) Aspects of the durability of a 95-year-old concrete bridge in an estuarine environment. Proc. 2 ^nd Colloquium on Concrete Research in Ireland, NUI, Galway.
Barrett, D. & Cannon, E . (2001) The influence of creep on the risk of thermal cracking in concrete at early ages. Proc. 2 ^nd Colloquium on Concrete Research in Ireland, NUI, Galway.

Cannon, E. (Editor) (2001) Proceedings of 2 ^nd Colloquium on Concrete Research in Ireland, (NUI, Galway)
Barrett, D., Cannon, E. (2001) Consistent thermal-elastic analysis using finite elements

Colloquium, Irish Society for Scientific and Engineering Computation, UCD

Cannon, E. (1997) Concrete reinforcement detailing: self-tutoring using Hypertext

Proc. Inaugural Colloquium on Concrete Research in Ireland, TCD, Dublin

Cannon, E., Mc Hugh, G. (1997) AutoLISP – an application to reinforced concrete design

Proc. Inaugural Colloquium on Concrete Research in Ireland, TCD, Dublin

Cannon, E., Coyle, B. (1997) Structural design in concrete – spreadsheet applications

Proc. Inaugural Colloquium on Concrete Research in Ireland, TCD, Dublin

ESDEP lectures

Volumes published by the Steel Construction Institute (UK) and Delft University of Technology (NL) resulting from the European Steel Design Education Programme (ESDEP). English language version 1994; Selected lectures translated into German, French, Spanish.

Cannon E. (author)

1. Vol. 10 Composite Construction: Design for Serviceability – I (Chap.5, Sect1, 33p.)

2. Vol. 10 Composite Construction: Design for Serviceability – II (Chap.5, Sect2, 31p.)

Cannon, E. et al. (authors)

3. Vol. 14 Structural systems - Buildings: Special single-storey structures (Chap.6, 40p.)

4. Vol. 1A Steel construction - economic & commercial factors: the European Building Market

(Chap.4, 52p.)

Cannon, E. et al. (editors)

5. Vol. 10 Composite Construction (15 Chaps., 464p.)

6. Vol. 14 Structural systems – Buildings (15 Chaps., 630p.)

7. Vol. 15A Structural systems – Offshore (11 Chaps., 298p.)

8. Vol. 15C Structural systems – Miscellaneous (5 Chaps., 139p.)

9. Vol. 5 Computer-aided design and manufacture (2 Chaps., 57p.)

10. Vol. 1A Steel construction - economic & commercial factors (4 Chaps., 113p.)

Reports

Cannon, E. Durability Investigation of Flannery Bridge, Report, Galway Co. Council ( 2002)

Cannon, E. Durability Study of Wolfe Tone Bridge , Report, Galway Corporation 2000

Cannon E. SATTLER1: Ein allgemeines Berechnungsverfahren für Tragwerke mit elastichem Verbund –

Programm 1. (The analysis of composite beams with elastic shear connection – Programme 1)

Computer programme and Report, Fachgebiet Stahlbau, Univ. Kaiserslautern, Germany. (Dec. 1991)

Cannon E. A Non-linear analysis of a simply supported composite beam having shear connection only at the

ends – with reference to Wostrack Traglastversuch SV2. Report, Fachgebiet Stahlbau, Universität

Kaiserslautern, Germany. (June 1991)

Cannon, E., Bode, H., Becker, J., Kronberger, H.J., Sauerborn, I., Sauerborn, N . & Stengel, J.

EuroCode 4: Composite Structures in Steel and Concrete: Short Version Draft commissioned by TCII

of the European Convention on Constructional Steelwork. Fachgebiet Stahlbau, Universität Kaiserslautern,

Germany. (Nov. 1991)

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