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Spring 2024

Baron Bello, Ambar Lennon

Double wythe masonry cavity walls consist of two masonry wythes, an exterior layer typically made of clay-backed or ceramic bricks (veneer) and the inner layer composed of concrete masonry units (CMU), which serves as a structural backup. In typical cavity wall design, the two wythes are assumed...

Spring 2024

Torres Acosta, Juan A.

Glass Fibre Reinforced Polymers (GFRP) have been commonly used as external or internal reinforcement of repaired or sound structures for some time in North America. GFRP-reinforced concrete (RC) technology has been implemented in bridge components like decks and barriers whose exposure to harsh...

Spring 2024

Vasquez Aldana, Adriana Marcela

Oil Sands Process Water (OSPW) is a byproduct generated during the extraction of bitumen from oil sands deposits in Northern Alberta, Canada. This matrix presents a critical environmental and industrial challenge due to its toxic nature, primarily associated with its complex mixture of...

Spring 2024

Moussa, Tamer

Hydraulic fracturing combined with horizontal drilling is the key to unlocking tight reservoirs. However, understanding the relationship between reservoir characteristics, completion design and well productivity remains challenging. In the past decade, over 40,000 multi-fractured horizontal wells...

Spring 2024

Mohammadi, Marzieh

The escalating energy consumption of buildings highlights the significance of adopting energy-efficient building design and construction practices. The growing demand for higher thermal resistance within building envelopes also necessitates innovative solutions for energy-efficient building...

Spring 2024

Zhang, Xinfang

Axial cracking is a major integrity threat for oil and natural gas transmission pipelines in Canada since its presence can lead to detrimental oil leaks or ruptures, resulting in pipeline incidents, and eventually causing severe damage to the property and the environment. Therefore, periodically...

Spring 2024

Li, Yikun

Hydraulic fracturing plays an essential role in producing unconventional hydrocarbon resources. The success of hydraulic fracturing operations and the performance of developing unconventional hydrocarbon resources strongly depend on the distribution of proppants in the induced fractures....

Spring 2024

Yu, Haisheng

Solvent injection processes offer a promising alternative to steam-based techniques for heavy oil recovery. Multiple mass transfer mechanisms, including interphase mass transfer, diffusion, and convection, would affect the process efficiency and recovery performance. Understanding the mass...

Spring 2024

Zhang, Xin

Clathrate hydrate is a multi-component system in which the “guest” gas molecules are accommodated by the “host” water. It has many potential applications in CO2 capture and sequestration, gas separation and others. We wish to promote the formation of clathrate hydrate in these applications since...

Spring 2024

Afaghi, Mohammad

Wildfires occurring in proximity to urban areas pose a potential risk to the safety and wellbeing of the population, while also carrying the potential for substantial economic damage through the destruction of infrastructure and private property. Canada, given its unique geographical and climatic...