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Spring 2012

Cui, Yifei

Direct shear tests were used to establish the shear behaviour of continuous planar-joints, discontinuous stepped-joints and discontinuous open-joints. The joints were cast in a Synthetic rock made of plaster, sand and water and tested under normal stresses that ranged from 50 kPa to 3.5 MPa. A...

Fall 2016

Hladky, Kateline J

Introduction: Expertise in motor skill develops through continued practice. Repetition of a task can lead to overall performance improving as well as an increase in the efficiency and effectiveness of a movement. Golf putting is an example of one such task that needs to be practiced in order to...

Fall 2012

Moolyk, Amy Nicole

The objective of this research was to study the work performed and distribution of work across the lower extremity in various landing tasks. Ten women performed jump landing and weightlifting tasks recorded in a motion analysis laboratory. Joint angles and moments were determined, from which...

Spring 2024

Subramanian, Arya

Orthodontics is the dental specialization focused on correcting tooth and jaw misalignments. The treatment is known to have positive effects on the quality of life of the public by improving personal aesthetics and oral health. A common fixed treatment option is orthodontic braces, composed of...

2010

Fok, Jonathan W., Carey, Jason P., Adeeb, Samer

Scoliosis affects about 1-3% of the adolescent population, with 80% of cases being idiopathic. There is currently a lack of understanding regarding the biomechanics of scoliosis, current treatment methods can be further improved with a greater understanding of scoliosis growth patterns. The...

Fall 2014

Nazief, Mohammed A

The current design practice is to ignore the interaction between masonry infill walls and containing frames due to the inadequate and incomplete guidance in current codes and standards. Most investigations on the behaviour of masonry infill shear walls were performed on scaled specimens and...

Fall 2017

Lee, Jungjin

A recent application of borehole thermal energy storage (BTES) technology to residential properties in Canada shows a significant reduction in the use of natural gas thereby saving energy consumption and reducing the generation of greenhouse gases. However, due to the construction principles of...

Spring 2013

Parashar, Avinash

Higher specific properties and corrosion resistance of fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) pipes make them a potential candidate for replacing metallic piping structures. This research project is concerned with adhesively bonded FRP pipe sections. The project can broadly be classified into three...

Spring 2016

Funabashi, Martha

Background: Low back pain is a prevalent condition commonly treated with conservative care, including spinal manipulative therapy (SMT). It is well known that forces applied by SMT are transfered to spinal tissues and that these forces inititate SMT’s benefitial (or possibly harmful) health...

Fall 2015

Lengyel, Tamran H.

The role of interfacial slippage on the deformation and stress fields near an interfacial crack are investigated in detail. First, the limiting extents of interfacial bonded friction, defined as the frictionless' andno-slip' cases, were modeled as hyperelastic elastostatic boundary value problems...