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Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains theses and dissertations of graduate students of the University of Alberta. The collection contains a very large number of theses electronically available that were granted from 1947 to 2009, 90% of theses granted from 2009-2014, and 100% of theses granted from April 2014 to the present (as long as the theses are not under temporary embargo by agreement with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies). IMPORTANT NOTE: To conduct a comprehensive search of all UofA theses granted and in University of Alberta Libraries collections, search the library catalogue at www.library.ualberta.ca - you may search by Author, Title, Keyword, or search by Department.
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Items in this Collection
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Spring 2019
Terror management theory proposes that the awareness of death conflicts with our desperate desire to live and that humans have attempted to resolve the problem of death by inventing and sustaining cultural worldviews that provide hope for literal or symbolic immortality. The present studies focus...
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Fall 2016
Helical piles have been used extensively in Western Canada to support the superstructures particularly with applications in power transmission towers, commercial buildings, camps, and so on. Extensive research in helical piles has been conducted using physical testing methods; however, there has...
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Fall 2023
Piles are commonly used in the Canadian Arctic as a foundation solution. Steel pipe shaft pile, which is a conventional pile type in the Arctic, is placed in an oversized pre-drilled hole and then the annulus is backfilled with gravel slurries or grout designed to cure (i.e., a process called...
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Axial Performance of Self-tapping Screws in Mass Timber Products Under Moisture Content Variation
DownloadFall 2022
Self-tapping screws (STS) are widely used in wood-to-wood and wood-to-steel connections in timber structures. The premature failure of STS during the construction phase has been recently reported by structural engineers and contractors of several mass timber projects in North America due to the...