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Spring 2019

Karsten, Lloyd Andrew Maurice

Traffic signs play a critical role in the safety and efficiency of any roadway, but with limited information on the current status of traffic sign inventories, the placement and condition of traffic signs goes largely unchecked. Therefore, the collection of a complete traffic sign inventory (TSI)...

Spring 2019

Itani, Anas

Industry 4.0 has sparked rapid changes in the manufacturing and construction sectors, leading to a major shift in how prefab construction machines are designed and manufactured in a concurrent engineering environment. Design for X (DFX) is one of the most effective methods for implementing in...

Fall 2019

An, Shi

As offsite construction is trending, an increasing number of construction products are fabricated in a controlled factory environment. By using automated machinery, the productivity and accuracy of construction-oriented products have been improved. However, as BIM models do not provide...

Fall 2019

Tian, Yichen

In the current practice, cabinets (in kitchen, bathroom, and closet) are designed and manufactured using different software and tools. Sales use simple visualization tools (i.e. Sketchup) to communicate with their clients while the same cabinets are re-drafted for estimation, permits, and...

Spring 2019

Yu, Haisheng

Cold heavy oil production with sand (CHOPS) is a non-thermal primary process that is widely adopted in many weakly consolidated heavy oil deposits around the world. However, only approximately 5 to 15% of the initial oil in place is typically recovered. Several solvent-assisted schemes are...

Spring 2019

Moradi Afrapoli, Ali

This PhD thesis has two main objectives. The first objective is to develop, implement, and verify an integrated simulation and optimization framework to study surface mining operations to address important drawbacks of currently available surface mining simulation models. These drawbacks include...

Spring 2019

Ndubuaku, Onyekachi H.

The buckling instability phenomenon in shell structures is inherently influenced by a variety of parameters which may exhibit direct nonlinear relationships with the resultant stress and consequent deformation in the structure, as well as complex interrelationships, under various loading...

Spring 2019

Bryant, Seth

Responding to rising disaster damages and shrinking budgets, Canadian cities are looking for ways to maximize protection from flood damages while minimizing costs. To inform such mitigation investments, quantitative decision-making tools have been used for decades to evaluate structural...

Fall 2019

Vasylchuk, Yaroslav Valentynovych

Grade control in open pit mines establishes the final destination for mined material (e.g., plant, leach pad, stockpile, waste dump, etc.). In contrast to long- and medium-term mine planning, errors at this stage of a mine operation cannot be changed in the future; correct decisions bring a...

Spring 2019

Mohsenijam, Arash

Accounting for seven percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the construction industry is the fifth largest contributor to the Canadian economy (Statistics Canada 2019). Structural steel is one of the primary materials used in the construction industry for providing structural stability in...