Search

Fall 2020

Mirdad, Md Abdul H

Mass Timber Panels (MTP) are a new generation of engineered wood panels that are available in large plane dimensions to facilitate fast floor construction with the obvious environmental benefit of being from a renewable material. In floor construction, concrete slab or topping is often applied...

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...

Fall 2017

Moosavi Nanehkaran, Seyed Abdol Hadi

Although the reliability levels of structural steel and reinforced concrete structures designed to the Canadian codes and standards have been investigated substantially in the past four decades, studies on the reliability of masonry structures are limited. Based on some preliminary studies in...

2008

Sadeque, Muhammad Abdul Faheem

Fall 2022

Gonzalez Mariscal, Rafael De Jesus

Slender masonry walls are often found in school gymnasiums, warehouses and other low-rise buildings. According to current North American masonry design standards, a slender wall is defined to have a height-to-thickness ratio of 30 or greater. These walls must satisfy several stringent...

Fall 2012

Veerabhadrappa, Santhosh K

Polymer flooding is the simplest and one of the most widely used chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) techniques. Viscoelasticity of polymers is known to contribute significantly towards improved displacement efficiency in polymer flood operations. But the contribution of elasticity of...

2007

He, Ming

Fall 2019

Teng, Bailu

Hydraulic fracturing treatment has been widely applied to enhance the well productivity in tight/shale formations, and history matching method is one of the most commonly used technique to help us obtain the information (e.g., fracture geometry and fracture conductivity) of the induced fractures....

Fall 2010

Jin, Jing

This thesis aims mainly at investigating the potential oxidizing abilities and possible applications of the UV/Chlorine process as an Advanced Oxidation Process (AOP). Several organic compounds were used and added into the samples as challenging radical scavengers to investigate the possibilities...

Spring 2019

Zhu, Lei

With rapid development of Canadian Oil Sands industry, concerns about adverse impacts of oil sands process-affected water (OSPW) on aquatic resources are magnified. It has been found that biological process for removing organic chemicals in the oil industrial wastewater is environmentally...