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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 2024

Al-Guhi, Helmi Ali Saleh

structures, guiding future research and practical applications in structural engineering.

bridges, and culverts, showcasing its adaptability across diverse infrastructure projects, from transportation networks to structural foundations. A profound understanding of FRC's compressive and flexural behaviour holds paramount importance in designing structural elements such as beams, slabs, columns

and 67 for GF), lengths (50 mm for SF and 36 mm for GF) and dosage (0.5, 1.0, and 1.5% by volume fraction). The findings reveal substantial reductions in slump with increased fibre content, offering nuanced insights crucial for concrete mixture designers and structural engineers. Moving to the

Spring 2024

Torres Acosta, Juan A.

Glass Fibre Reinforced Polymers (GFRP) have been commonly used as external or internal reinforcement of repaired or sound structures for some time in North America. GFRP-reinforced concrete (RC) technology has been implemented in bridge components like decks and barriers whose exposure to harsh...

Fall 2022

Smithaniuk, Caine

Embedded plates (embeds) are a common method of joining steel and concrete members in structures. Research at the University of Alberta emphasized the lack of consideration in the Canadian concrete design standard CSA A23.3:19 Annex D for the effect of reinforcement on anchorage capacity, as well...

Spring 2024

Egbon, Benedict N.

walls the inner and outer wythes are made entirely of concrete while that of double wythe cavity masonry walls are mostly made of bricks and Concrete Masonry Units, respectively. Overall, the structural performance of both walls is largely influenced by the shear connection system, and existing shear

connection systems are currently being challenged by larger insulation thicknesses needed to meet stricter energy requirements. At the core of these changes to the thermal requirement for building envelopes, the structural load on walls such as the dead and live load are relatively unchanged, which means

Spring 2024

Baron Bello, Ambar Lennon

Double wythe masonry cavity walls consist of two masonry wythes, an exterior layer typically made of clay-backed or ceramic bricks (veneer) and the inner layer composed of concrete masonry units (CMU), which serves as a structural backup. In typical cavity wall design, the two wythes are assumed to

Spring 2021

Chin, Ian Chong-Xian

Embedded plates are commonly used to facilitate connecting structural steel members to reinforced concrete building elements such as walls and columns. Due to a lack of readily available industry-wide standard embedded plate designs, embedded plates are often custom designed for each project. This

Spring 2024

Romero, Danny J.

Masonry connectors are used in wythe wall systems to either transfer lateral loads or increase composite behaviour. As future energy code requirements are updated, insulation is increasing which increases the cavity within walls which affects a connector’s behaviour. Due to a lack of masonry...

Fall 2023

Vendiola, Arnold

maintained structures are increasing in importance (Mirza, 2007). The use of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM), which uses sensor technology paired with data acquisition and analytical models to quantify various bridge parameters such as strain, vibration, and displacement, has been growing in popularity in

structural health monitoring and predicting the effects of various damage cases on the modal properties of the bridge using an analytical model. Twelve triaxial accelerometers were deployed in four locations along the bridge, and the modal properties were calculated from the acceleration data using a