Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations from 2009 by Discipline "Engineering : Civil"
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Adapting modular structures for healthcare applications
(2022)COVID-19 has highlighted many vital factors to consider when it comes to the healthcare systems. Some challenges such as personnel, equipment, and space demands. Personnel demand can be met by calling retired doctors and ... -
Behavior of exposed column base plate connection subjected to combined axial load and biaxial bending
(2021)Column base plate (CBP) connections are one of the most crucial structural components of steel structures that act as a transfer medium for all the forces and moments from the entire building into the foundation. Importance ... -
BIM-based automated schedule generation in reinforced concrete-framed buildings
(2018)In the construction industry, project schedule has been regarded as a fundamental tool to complete a project under the targeted duration and cost. A sound schedule usually depends on schedulers’ construction management ... -
Building information modeling-enhanced visualization tool for structural health monitoring
(2018)With growing number of modern complex infrastructure, robust and autonomous condition assessment of large-scale structures under operational loads and extreme climatic events has garnered significant attention. Data-driven ... -
Durability and mechanical properties of Portland cement concrete that utilizes crumb rubber as an alternative fine aggregat
(2018)This research project investigated in an intensive experimental program the influence of using crumb rubber in the mechanical properties and durability of Portland cement concrete mixtures. Crumb rubber is produced from ... -
Dynamic stability of axially loaded beams on elastic foundations
(2019)Beams on elastic foundations have received great attention of researchers for its importance in civil engineering. The present work can be applied, for example, to the study of dynamically loaded finite columns which are ... -
Effect of organic carbon to nutrients (nitrogen and phosphorus) ratios on the performance of a novel microalgal-bacterial membrane photobioreactor
(2021)This thesis aims to investigate the impact of Chemical Oxidation Demand (COD) to Nitrogen (N) ratio (COD/N) in influent on the biological and membrane performance of a novel Microalgal-Bacterial Membrane Photobioreactor ... -
Embodied energy assessment of building structural systems using building information modeling
(2017)As the population of the world increases, the need to develop sustainable housing has gained worldwide attention. Although buildings contribute to socio-economic development, they are also among the biggest consumers of ... -
Entropy-based reliability analysis and design in slope engineering
(2018)Canada has a wide range of landslide types reflecting the diverse geomorphic and geologic environments in the nation’s landscape. Many civil engineering projects are located on or near sloping ground, and thus are ... -
Estimation of stripping by static immersion test using image processing and machine learning
(2019)Hot Mixed Asphalt (HMA) is one of the most common types of pavement, which exists on the surface of the roads, inside and outside of cities. One of the main destresses in HMA is moisture-related damage, which mainly occurs ... -
Examination of independent contributions of driver, crash, vehicle and geometric characteristics to driver fatalities
(2018)In 2016, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) had recorded a total of 37,461 road-related mortalities within the United States alone. To alleviate the effects of road fatalities concerning economy and ... -
Experimental determination of the residual compressive strength of concrete columns subjected to different fire durations and load ratios
(2019)The superior thermal property of concrete associated to its great capability of thermally insulating the embedded reinforcing steel rebar is the main reason for the good behavior of reinforced concrete structural elements ... -
Experimental investigations of sand-water coaxial and swirling jets in stagnant water
(2021)Sand jets and particle clouds are found in many engineering applications, such as marine bed capping, dredging material disposal, and discharge of wastewater. A coaxial jet is composed of an inner jet surrounded by an ... -
Experimental testing of geomechanical behavior of fiber-reinforced cemented paste backfill (FR-CPB) under warmer curing temperature
(2020)Backfilling techniques enable improved ore recovery and structural stability to underground mines employing a material to fill the voids after the excavation. Fiber-reinforced cemented paste backfill (FR-CPB) is this ... -
Flexural bending behaviour of built-up glulam box-selection beams at ambient and elevated temperatures
(2018)The recent increasing trend of sustainable construction and advancement in the manufacturing of engineered wood have made products such as glued-laminated timber (glulam) and cross-laminated timber (CLT) preferred building ... -
A hybrid approach to condition assessment of paved roads
(2021)Road reconstruction is drastically more expensive than an appropriate maintenance program. Performing targeted maintenance requires a comprehensive inventory of road conditions. To create and maintain a road condition ... -
Improved data compression techniques to analyze big data in structural health monitoring
(2018)With growing number of complex and slender structures worldwide, long-term structural health monitoring (SHM) has been intensively pursued to retrofit and control these structures under extreme climatic events. Modern ... -
An improved multi-variate empirical mode decomposition method towards system identification of structures
(2018)Structural health monitoring (SHM) plays a key role towards condition assessment of large-scale civil structures using modern sensing technology. Once the rich vibration data is collected, important system information ... -
Non-destructive testing to monitor the strength increase of electrokinetically treated soil
(2018)Electrokinetics in geotechnical engineering is used to increase the shear strength of soft soils and the load carrying capacity of piles embedded in these soils. This is achieved by decreasing the water content of the soil ... -
Predictive and explanatory assessments of traffic-related pedestrian injuries
(2019)Pedestrians are an integral part of the modern transportation system but are often considered as the most vulnerable to severe traffic-related injury when compared to other road users. Between 1975 and 2009, annual pedestrian ...
