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Fall 2020

Azim, Md Riasat

Railway bridges are critical components of the railway infrastructure system. These bridges are subjected to various potential hazards resulting in different levels of damage. Therefore, developing operational response-based robust damage investigation strategies specifically tailored to railroad...

2008

Kerkhoven, Ernst Nicolas, 1969-

Spring 2021

Chung, Tae Hyun

With a large number of oil deposits in Canada, Alberta oil sands industries are currently conducting bitumen extraction processes using hot water. In oil sands process water (OSPW) from these oil sands operations, naphthenic acids (NAs) are identified as one of the primary sources of acute...

Fall 2020

Zain, Akram M

Modularization of buildings comes in several types, from prefabricated members to full volumetric models. Recently, the introduction of modular construction methods brought numerous benefits to the construction industry. Reducing construction time and costs together with improving quality and...

Fall 2013

Vafakhah,Hooman

A new and cost effective technique is developed to measure the rheological properties of cement paste and is validated through experiment and analytical analysis with the use of flow table. Instead of conventional methods, such as free flow test and modified mini slump test without drops, the...

Fall 2023

Islam, Md Saiful

Panelized fabrication of light-frame wood buildings has higher productivity than the traditional stick-built method. However, the roof production process is inefficient due to the structural system and construction method. This research proposes a novel roof system to improve the productivity of...

Fall 2011

Ren, Shujie

Microelectrodes can be used for profiling environmental biofilms. Currently there is no sulfate microelectrode available for studying sulfate reduction in biofilms. In this study, a sulfate microelectrode was fabricated and tested in measurement of environmental biofilms for the first time. The...

Spring 2015

Beier, Nicholas A

This research aims to assist in the assessment of tailings management technologies through the development of a dynamic simulation model. The developed model (TMSim) incorporates the mine plan, various stages of dewatering including classification, pre- and post-deposition dewatering, and an...

Spring 2019

Zheng, Xiaochuan

This thesis aims to demonstrate the feasibility of using System Dynamics (SD) techniques to develop a transparent, open-source and reproducible model capable of simulating long-term soil water dynamics in a tailings-cap system subject to upward flux from a consolidating tailings substrate. The...

Fall 2017

Shi, Jialin

Cubic equations of state (CEOS) are frequently used to predict the phase behavior and volumetric properties of pure compounds and mixtures encountered in the field of chemical and petroleum engineering. Volume translation is proposed to further improve the accuracy of density predictions by CEOS....