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Spring 2021

Li, Yueying

Pipelines are the safest and most efficient way to transport oil and gas products throughout the world. Thus, pipelines have to traverse long distances and are typically buried underground which are susceptible to damages with use. Potential threats to the integrity of a pipeline include metal...

Fall 2014

Komeili, Amin

The radiation dose and the associated lifetime risk of developing cancer is a problem justifying the use of surface topography (ST) as an alternative to radiographs for monitoring scoliosis. The current ST methods mainly rely on marker placement and fail to describe the 3D aspect of the scoliosis...

Spring 2019

Islam, Md T

unduly altering the mortar strength. On the other hand, applying nano-lime was most beneficial in limiting water permeability in the natural Hydraulic Lime Mortars. The microstructure of cementitious materials has great influence on their engineering properties such as permeability, strength, and

Spring 2018

Ghaneei, Maliheh

While the common method for diagnosing and monitoring adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) is X-ray radiographs from which a Cobb angle is measured, studies have shown that high radiation exposure is linked to high risk of cancer, particularly, for children and women. This thesis describes...

Fall 2016

Mori, Lomere

variables such as structural material, geometry of the structure, and the environment the structure is exposed to. The thermal response of the structure, which includes stresses and displacements, is also equally complex. There is currently a lack of design provisions in structural codes and literature that

Tunnel in Calgary, Alberta, which is a case study for this thesis. The aim of the study is to evaluate findings from the numerical analysis and sensor data with current structural code provisions that address design temperature and the location of movement joints. From the investigation, it was

Fall 2016

Zhang,Lihua

Under heavy and frequent train loads, large stresses can develop in the rail, of which the bending stress is an important portion. Bending stress may cause fatigue defects to grow and also result in rail breaks, which is the dominant failure mode according to the records of derailments caused by...

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 2023

Palizi, Mehrdad

Statistical Shape Models (SSMs) describe the shape variation in a family of similar objects in a computational format. An example of a shape family is the periphery of a specific bone for different individuals. SSMs have diverse applications in computer vision and medicine. In orthopaedics, SSMs...

Fall 2022

Khan, Mehsam T.

Self-tapping screws (STS) are widely used in wood-to-wood and wood-to-steel connections in timber structures. The premature failure of STS during the construction phase has been recently reported by structural engineers and contractors of several mass timber projects in North America due to the

Spring 2021

Zhenning Liu

was inaccurate. It was found that the perfect bonding assumption was inappropriate, and bond-slip needed to be taken into account. Furthermore, the dynamic response data from the shake-table tests were utilized for the nonlinear FEMU to help achieve an accurate prediction on the structural behavior