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Fall 2024

Vecchio Castillo, Valeria Veronica

The building and construction industry aims to reduce its CO2 emissions to reach Net-Zero goals by the year 2050. However, the industry faces the challenge of a possible increase in its CO2 emission levels due to rapid global population growth. Consequently, researchers and practitioners have...

Fall 2022

Smithaniuk, Caine

Embedded plates (embeds) are a common method of joining steel and concrete members in structures. Research at the University of Alberta emphasized the lack of consideration in the Canadian concrete design standard CSA A23.3:19 Annex D for the effect of reinforcement on anchorage capacity, as well...

Fall 2017

Mutsuddy, Rupak

For any reinforced concrete structure, the bond between concrete and the reinforcement bar is the most important parameter from structural standpoint. Notwithstanding numerous prior studies on describing this interaction for different reinforcing bars, not enough understanding exists for fibre...

Spring 2012

Mahoutian, Mehrdad

The present study has focused on the effects of Powdered Activated Carbon (PAC) in fly ash on the air-entraining admixture demand and consequent properties of concrete. An extensive laboratory test program was completed during this investigation. Three series of mixes were designed to evaluate...

Fall 2024

Ramon Rivera, Alejandro

The increasing demand for more ef ficient and eco-f riendly building practices has led to developing and improving traditional construction methods to address building issues concerning environmental impacts and costs. However, alongside the incorporated benefits, they introduce new obstacles...

Fall 2019

Goncalves, Jose Roberto

The most common detrimental processes that lead to reduction in durability in reinforced concrete elements are shrinkage, sulphate attack and chloride attack. Shrinkage is a dimensional instability chiefly caused by a loss of moisture in the hydrating cement paste. Soluble sulphate ions take part...

Fall 2010

Ormberg, Grant

This study assesses the suitability of four sectional shear methods for predicting the shear capacity of reinforced concrete members which do not comply with S6-06 Section 14 stirrup spacing and area requirements. The results of the evaluations indicate that the sectional shear provisions in...

Fall 2019

Arevalo, Sergio, I

Precast concrete insulated wall panels (IWP) are thermally and structurally efficient systems commonly used in construction. Although their flexural performance has been studied extensively, there are limited studies on thermal bowing in IWP. Bowing causes unwanted deflections, stresses on the...

Spring 2015

Setayesh Gar, Parisa

This study is part of a joint Canada-India research program to effect sustainable construction. Alberta generates a significant amount of waste from agricultural- and forest-based industries. Similarly, India has lots of sugar cane bagasse waste. Researchers in both countries want to use these...

Fall 2017

Garcia Ramirez, Bernardo

Although significant progress in the modelling of the nonlinear response of reinforced - concrete (RC) structures at the element level has been achieved in the past decades, reliable and accurate analysis models at the system level for RC structures are scarce. Due to the complexity of elements...