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Assessment of Blast Energy Usage and the Extent of Blast Damage in Hard Rock Open-pit Mines
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Blasting fragmentation influences the cost and productivity of downstream processes such as loading, hauling, crushing, and milling. Interaction between the rock mass and explosive energy determines blast outcomes. This research aims to enhance the understanding of the blasting process by...
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Assessment of Current State of Guidelines, Codes, and Legislation for Deployment of Fibre Optic Cable in Canada
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Fibre optic technology has become the primary network infrastructure and a communication medium, which provides higher bandwidth capacity for current and next-generation technologies. While the demand for new technology and services increases, fibre optics technology brings the promise of a...
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Assessment of Drilling Fluid Hole Cleaning Capacity in Horizontal Directional Drilling – A Parametric Study of the Effects of Drilling Fluid Additives
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Horizontal directional drilling (HDD) as one of the most popular trenchless technology has seen a rapid growth during the past decades. Hole cleaning has been one of the most challenging problems of the directional well drilling in the oil and gas industry. As an outgrowth of the directional...
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Fall 2019
Geomechanical properties of caprock shale formations for SAGD operations play a critical role in its integrity and must be well characterized. As a component of the development of a SAGD project, numerical simulations are used extensively to understand the uncertainties and forecast the economics...
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Spring 2015
The Eliminator is a new guided boring machine developed to address the market need for Pilot Tube Microtunneling (PTMT) installations in non-displaceable soils. This study is part of a multi-phase research project sponsored by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada...
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Spring 2024
Despite recent advances in automotive research, a fully autonomous system operating in open, unconstrained road environments has not yet been realized. Recently, several types of autonomous vehicle (AV) failures were reported, such as run-of-the-road collisions and failure to stop for occluded...
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Spring 2016
A study was implemented to evaluate different alternatives of soil cover systems for the closure of approximately 1539 Mt of waste rock at the Antamina Mine (Peru). The soil covers were designed to limit water percolation to the underlying waste rock, by combining a store/release and low...
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Assessment of the regulatory response to complaints related to unconventional oil and gas operations
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Unconventional oil and gas development in Alberta has been rapidly expanding over the past couple of decades and has raised public concerns regarding the potential public health impacts and environmental contamination. The objectives of this thesis were to identify the types of unconventional oil...