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Spring 2022

Elshabrawy, Mohamed Mansour

Wildland fires are natural occurrences in the woodland landscape that play a vital ecological role in Canada's boreal forest region. However, they also endanger human life and can disrupt timber resources and other economic assets. Recently, wildfires have ravaged areas of British Columbia,...

Spring 2022

Lin, Zichao

An ideal cement job is expected to provide a perfect zonal isolation during the entire production life and even after the abandonment of the oil and gas wells. Variations of downhole stress conditions due to, for example, pressure cycles during the multistage hydraulic fracturing operations and...

Spring 2022

Zhang, Lei

This thesis focuses on the structural performance of mass timber panel-concrete composite floors with notches. Mass timber panels (MTPs) such as cross-laminated timber, glue-laminated timber, and nail-laminated timber, are emerging construction materials in the building industry due to their high...

Spring 2022

Sharma, Davesh

In countries like Canada and the United States, where most of the population lives in snowy regions, winter road maintenance (WRM) has become a significant challenge. Hundreds of people are killed, and thousands are injured every year due to inclement winter weather conditions. To combat this,...

Spring 2022

Yu, Yang

Low Impact Improvement (LID) had received great interest in the past decades to achieve sustainable urban stormwater management and improve urban ecological systems. Numerical studies were conducted in this thesis to improve the understanding of LID benefits in cold regions and explore the...

Spring 2022

Laberge, Scott L

Managing fluid fine tailings (FFT) is a defining challenge of the oil sands industry in Alberta due to low solids content, and extremely slow self-weight consolidation. One technology to increase the solids content of these tailings is centrifugation to produce centrifuged fluid fine tailings...

Spring 2022

Keshavarzi, Reza

During hydraulic fracturing in unconventional tight formations a high percentage of the injected fluid may remain in the formation and only a small portion of the fracturing fluid is typically recovered. Although spontaneous imbibition is mainly introduced as the main dominating mechanism, a...

Spring 2022

Wang, Jingwen

As the leading cause of nonfatal occupational injuries, work-related musculoskeletal disorders account for approximately 33% of all occupational injuries and illnesses in the United States and approximately 44% of such injuries in Alberta, Canada. The risk of developing a work-related...

Fall 2022

Shuvo,Badhon Das

Fabrication operations produce made-to-order structural components (such steel elements or precast concrete) for multiple construction projects, which require crews to repeat their work at a number of workstations or locations in a special manufacturing facility. Scheduling these interdependent...

Fall 2022

Khidri, Mujtaba

A micro screw pile is a multi-sectional pile that consists of a smooth segment at the top, a threaded segment in the middle and a tapered segment at the bottom. Due to limited information on the performance, design and behaviour of micro screw piles, further research is required to study the...