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- 1Andreev, Rodion
- 1Argüelles-Vivas, Francisco Javier
- 1Azadbakht, Saman
- 1Balideh, Saleh
- 1Barnett, Ryan M.
- 5Geostatistics
- 5Simulations
- 3Constructions
- 3Discrete Event Simulation
- 2Damage Detection
- 2Discrete fracture network
- 2Ahmed Bouferguene (Campus Saint-Jean)
- 2Babadagli, Tayfun (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- 2Dr. Vivek Bindiganavile
- 2El-Basyouny, Karim (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- 2Joseph, Tim (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- 2Mohamed Al-Hussein (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
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Spring 2015
Earth moving projects are commonly involved in the construction industry for tasks such as road construction, pipeline installation, surface mining, and so on. All the operations in earth moving projects are completed by a fleet of different construction equipment. Since earth moving projects...
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A Distributed Simulation Approach for Contractor Company Performance Management in the Construction Industry
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Acquiring and sustaining an edge over competitors in an era that is characterized by more complex and massive projects, scarce resources, more stringent client requirements, and higher expectations from board members is quite challenging for construction companies. It is believed that...
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A Framework for Measuring Accessibility as a Metric of Quality of Life in Polycentric Cities
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The concept of quality of life has been an ongoing subject of discussion—both theoretical and empirical—in the field of urban development. There is strong subjective (opinion-based) evidence suggesting the existence of a link between an individual’s perception of their living environment and...
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A Framework for Vibration based Damage Detection of Bridges under Varying Temperature Effects using Artificial Neural Networks and Time Series Analysis
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Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) has become a very important area in civil engineering for evaluating the performance of critical civil infrastructure systems such as bridges. One of the most important issues with continuous SHM is the environmental effects (such as temperature, humidity, wind)...
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A framework to quantify the economic impact of changing the road pavement standard and related municipal bylaws on housing affordability in cold weather regions
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Jurisdictions in winter regions impose restrictions on asphalt paving of neighbourhood roadways based on severity of cold weather. These limitations are imposed mainly to avoid the inadequate compaction of asphalt that results in poor performance of roads. Paving restrictions during the weather...
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A Fuel-Saving Green Light Optimal Speed Advisory for Signalized Intersection Using V2I Communication
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The research in this thesis introduces a connected vehicle environmental green light speed advisory which helps the vehicle to avoid unnecessary stops before intersections and improves the fuel consumption efficiency. Lots of works for Eco-driving on GLOSA (Green Light Optimal Speed Advisory)...
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Fall 2015
The interaction between operator input, machine and operating surface is highly complex and varied. Time based equipment evaluation metrics are limited in the type of information they can convey. A common alternative to time based evaluation is mechanical modeling, however; these models can be...
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A Hybrid Fuzzy Discrete Event Simulation Framework for Analysis of Stochastic and Subjective Uncertainties in Construction Projects
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Discrete event simulation (DES) has proven to be an indispensable tool for planning and analyzing construction projects. Appropriate consideration of uncertainties of the inputs of DES results in more realistic outputs. Uncertainty in general can be categorized as stochastic and subjective....
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Spring 2015
Although much academic research has been performed in the study of construction process simulation, this research has not seen mainstream application in the construction industry. Many factors play a deterrent role in the adoption of simulation by construction end users, mainly the time, cost and...
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Fall 2015
The objective of this thesis is to develop, implement and verify a theoretical framework based upon aggregation and mathematical programming for solving the long-term open pit production planning problem. The goal is to closely estimate the maximum net present value of the operation by providing...