Publications

Journal Publications

Febrianto E, Butler LJ, Girolami MJ and Cirak F (2022). Digital twinning of self-sensing structures using the statistical finite element method. Data-Centric Engineering. Cambridge University Press, Vol. 3, E31. doi:10.1017/dce.2022.28.

Shaikh A & Butler LJ (2022). Self-Sensing Fabric Reinforced Cementitious Matrix Systems for Combined Strengthening and Monitoring of Concrete Structures. Construction and Building Materials 331.

Ye C, Butler LJ, Huseynov F, and Middleton CR (2021). Evaluating in-service structural behaviour of an operational railway bridge using fibre optic sensing and structural model updating. Engineering Structures 247.

Sun F, Hoult N, Butler LJ and Zhang M (2021). Distributed monitoring of rail lateral buckling under axial loading. Journal of Civil Structural Health Monitoring 12:757 – 774.

Ye C, Butler LJ and Middleton CR (2022). Implementing bridge model updating for operation and maintenance purposes: examination based on practitioner’s views. Structure and Infrastructure Engineering. DOI: 10.1080/15732479.2021.1914115.

Ye C, Butler LJ and Middleton CR (2020). Measuring prestress losses in a prestressed concrete girder railway bridge using distributed and discrete fibre optic sensors. Construction and Building Materials 247.

Gregory A, Lau F. D-H, Girolami MA, Butler LJ, and Elshafie MZEB (2019). The synthesis of data from instrumented structures and physics-based models via Gaussian processes. Journal of Computational Physics 392: 248 – 265.

Xu J, Butler LJ and Elshafie MZEB (2019). Experimental and numerical investigation of the performance of self-sensing concrete sleepers. Journal of Structural Health Monitoring 19(1): 66 – 85.

Lin W, Butler LJ, Elshafie MZEB and Middleton CR (2018). Performance assessment of a newly constructed half-through railway bridge through integrated sensing. Journal of Bridge Engineering, ASCE. Accepted for publication.

Butler LJ, Lin W, Xu J, Gibbons N, Elshafie MZEB and Middleton CR (2018). Monitoring, modelling and assessment of a self-sensing railway bridge during construction. Journal of Bridge Engineering, ASCE. Accepted for publication.

Lau FD-H, Butler LJ, Adams NM, Elshafie MZEB and Girolami MA (2018). Real-time statistical modelling of data generated from self-sensing bridges. Journal of Smart Infrastructure and Construction, ICE. Themed Issue on Big Data Analysis. Accepted for publication.

Davila Delgado JM, Butler LJ, Brilakis I, Elshafie MZEB, and Middleton CR (2018). Structural performance monitoring using data-driven and dynamic BIM environments. Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, ASCE, 32(3) https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)CP.1943-5487.0000749

Lau FD-H, Adams NM, Girolami MA, Butler LJ, Elshafie MZEB (2017). The role of statistics in data-centric engineering. Statistics and Probability Letters, Special Issue on the Role of Statistics in the Era of Big Data. Article in-press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spl.2018.02.035

Butler LJ, Xu J, Ping H, Gibbons N, Dirar S, Middleton CR, and Elshafie MZEB (2017). Robust fibre-optic sensor arrays for monitoring early-age performance of mass-produced concrete railway sleepers. Journal of Structural Health Monitoring. Online ahead of print. https://doi.org/10.1177/1475921717714615.

Davila Delgado JM, Butler LJ, Gibbons NJ, Brilakis I, Elshafie MZEB, and Middleton CR (2016). Management of structural monitoring data of bridges using BIM. ICE Bridge Engineering Themed Issue on Information Technology in Bridge Engineering and Construction, 170 (3): 204 – 218. https://doi.org/10.1680/jbren.16.00013.

Butler LJ, Gibbons N, Ping H, Elshafie MZEB, and Middleton CR (2016). Evaluating the early-age behaviour of full-scale prestressed concrete beams using distributed and discrete fibre optic sensors. Journal of Construction and Building Materials, 126: 894 – 912. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2016.09.086.

Butler LJ, West JS, and Tighe SL (2015). Bond of reinforcement in concrete incorporating recycled concrete aggregates. Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE Special Issue on Sustainable Building Structures, 141(3): 1 – 12.

https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)ST.1943-541X.0000928.

Butler LJ, West JS, and Tighe SL (2014). Towards the classification of recycled concrete aggregates: influence of fundamental aggregate properties on recycled concrete performance. Journal of Sustainable Cement-Based Materials, 3(2): 140 – 163. https://doi.org/10.1080/21650373.2014.909752.

Butler LJ, West JS, and Tighe SL (2013). Effect of recycled concrete coarse aggregate from multiple sources on the hardened properties of concrete with equivalent compressive strength. Journal of Construction and Building Materials, 47: 1292 – 1301. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2013.05.074.

Butler LJ, West JS, and Tighe SL (2013). Guidelines for the selection and use of coarse recycled concrete aggregates in structural concrete. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2335: 3 – 12.

https://doi.org/10.3141/2335-01.

Butler LJ, West JS, and Tighe SL (2012). Effect of recycled concrete aggregate properties on the mixture proportions of structural concrete. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2290: 105 – 114. https://doi.org/10.3141/2290-14.

Butler LJ, West JS, and Tighe SL (2011). The effect of recycled concrete aggregate properties on the bond strength between RCA concrete and steel reinforcement. Cement and Concrete Research, 41(10): 1037 – 1049.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cemconres.2011.06.004.

Conference Papers

Raut S, Olcun S, Butler LJ (2023). Evaluating the use of limestone calcined clay cement and recycled concrete aggregates for reducing the carbon footprint of concrete structures. 2nd International Construction Materials and Structures (ICCMS), held virtually, December 14 – 18, 2022.

Sun F, Butler LJ, Hoult N (2022). Distributed Monitoring of the thermal response of Continuous Welded Rail (CWR) using fiber optic sensors. 11th International Conference on Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure (SHMII 11) Proceedings, Montreal, Canada, August 8 – 12, 2022.

Ye S, Huseynov F, Butler LJ, Middleton C (2022). Evaluating and visualising structural utilisation of an operational railway bridge using fibre optic sensing. 11th International Conference on Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure (SHMII 11) Proceedings, Montreal, Canada, August 8 – 12, 2022.

Olcun S, Santorsola J, and Butler LJ (2021). Design and trade-off optimization for reduction of carbon emissions in concrete structures using recycled materials. fib Symposium Proceedings, Lisbon, Portugal., 14 – 16, June 2021.

Malik A, Abogadil K, Khan UT, Butler LJ (2021). Artificial intelligence-based prediction of permeable pavement surface infiltration rates. CSCE Annual Conference 2021 Proceedings, held remotely, 26 – 29, May 2021.

Santorsola J and Butler LJ (2021). Experimental assessment of low carbon concrete Produced using coarse and fine recycled concrete aggregates and high-volume supplementary cementitious materials. fib Symposium 2021 Proceedings, Lisbon, Portugal., 14 – 16, June 2021.

Ye C, Butler LJ, Huseynov F, Middleton C (2021). The creation and application of monitoring oriented structural utilisation heatmaps for a multi-girder concrete bridge, 10th International Conference on Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure (SHMII 10) Proceedings, Porto, Portugal, 14 – 16, June 2021.

Ye C, Kuok SC, Butler LJ, Middleton CR (2020). Challenges of implementing bridge model updating in industry practice, IABSE Congress Christchurch 2020 Proceedings, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Ye C, Butler LJ, Calka B, Iangurazov, Lu Q, Gregory A, Girolami M and Middleton CR (2019). A digital twin of bridges for structural health monitoring. 12th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring Proceedings, Stanford, United States, September 10 – 12, 2019.

Havemann G, Kearsley E, Skorpen S, Butler LJ, Elshafie MZEB (2020). Temperature Effects in a Precast Bridge Beam. FIB Symposium 2020, Concrete Structures for Resilient Society Proceedings, Shanghai, China, October 21 – 24, 2020.

Butler LJ, Elshafie MZEB and Middleton CR (2018). Pervasive fibre-optic sensor networks in bridges: a U.K. case study. The 9th International Conference on Bridge Maintenance, Safety and Monitoring Proceedings, Melbourne, July 9 – 13, 2018.

Kusel F, Kearsley E, Butler LJ, Skorpen S and Elshafie MZEB (2018). Measured temperature effects during the construction of a prestressed precast concrete bridge beam. The 5th International Conference on Concrete Repair, Rehabilitation and Retrofitting, Cape Town, November 19 – 21, 2018.

Butler LJ, Gibbons N, Middleton CR, Elshafie MZEB (2016). Integrated fibre-optic sensor networks as tools for monitoring strain development in bridges during construction. The 19th Congress of IABSE Proceedings, Stockholm, September 21 – 23, 2016:1767 – 1775.

Butler LJ, Gibbons N, Ping H, Xu J, Crowther P, and Elshafie MZEB (2016). Development of self-sensing concrete sleepers for next-generation rail infrastructure. International Conference on Smart Infrastructure and Construction Proceedings, Robinson College, Cambridge, UK, June 27 – 29, 2016, Institution of Civil Engineering Publishing:15 – 20.

Gibbons N, Butler LJ, Williamson M, Elwood A, Platt R, Henwood M, Oliver J, Holland P, Dirar S, Arthurs S, Middleton CR, and Elshafie MZEB (2015). Monitoring the early age behaviour of prestressed concrete beams using fibre optic sensors, 16th European Bridge Conference and Exhibition Proceedings, June 23 – 25, Edinburgh.

Butler LJ, West JS, and Tighe SL (2013). Guidelines for the selection and use of coarse recycled concrete aggregates in structural concrete, Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board Proceedings, Washington D.C., United States, January 22 – 26.

Butler LJ, West JS, and Tighe SL (2012). Effect of RCA properties on the mixture proportions of RCA concrete developed for structural applications, Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board Proceedings, Washington D.C., United States, January 22 – 26.

Butler LJ, West JS, and Tighe SL (2011). Quantification of recycled concrete aggregate properties for usage in bridges and pavements: an Ontario case study, Annual Conference of the Transportation Association of Canada Proceedings, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, September 11 – 14.

Invited Publications

Butler LJ and de Battista N (2017). Railway bridge condition monitoring through integrated fibre optic sensing. Rail technology magazine. Cognitive Publishing Ltd. Invited article.

Lin W and Yoda T (2017). Bridge engineering: classifications, design loading, and analysis methods. 1st Ed. Butterworth-Heinemann. Oxford, UK. 292 pages. Contributing Author to Chapter 13, Butler LJ, Case study: Railway bridge monitoring using fiber optic sensors. ISBN 9780128044339.

Middleton CR, Fidler PRA, and Vardanega PJ (2016). Bridge monitoring: a practical guide. ICE Publishing. Contributing Author of Chapter 10, Butler LJ, Case study: Stafford area improvements programme railway bridges. ISBN 978-0-7277-6059-3.

Butler LJ (2016). Smart alliances make for smarter infrastructure. Infrastructure Intelligence Magazine. Association for Consulting and Engineering, 21, November/December, pg. 30. Invited article.