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Flexural Behavior and Strength of Cold-formed Steel L-Headers
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-25)Cold-formed steel framing of residential and light commercial buildings continues to grow in popularity due to its structural and material advantages. The North American steel industry is actively performing research ... -
Flexural Behaviour of Partially Bonded CFRP Strengthened Concrete T-Beams
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-26)Fibre-reinforced-polymer (FRP) composites have been widely used for the flexural strengthening of reinforced concrete (RC) structures. Flexural strengthening methods with FRP include external bonding of FRP composites (EB ... -
Flexural Behaviour of Stay-In-Place PVC Encased Reinforced Concrete Walls with Various Panel Types
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-06)The use of stay-in-place (SIP) formwork has become an increasingly popular tool for concrete structures, providing advantages in construction scheduling and labour reduction. Stay-in-place formwork made of strong materials ... -
Flexural Fatigue Behaviour of Corroded Pretensioned Beams and Their Repair Using Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymer Sheets
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-24)The study presented in this thesis investigated the flexural fatigue behaviour of non-corroded and corroded pretensioned beams and examined the use of externally bonded Carbon Fibre Reinforcement Polymer (CFRP) sheets as ... -
A Floating Ball and Two Asymptotic Problems in Capillarity
(University of Waterloo, 2021-06-02)The study of capillary phenomena can be traced back to the age of Aristotle. In this thesis, a floating ball and two asymptotic problems in capillarity are considered, all of which include surface tension and gravity. The ... -
Floating Bodies in the Absence of Gravity
(University of Waterloo, 2011-04-20)The study of infinitely long cylinders of constant cross-section floating in an infinite fluid bath in zero-gravity environments has primarily been focused on bodies whose cross-sections are strictly convex and sufficiently ... -
Floating Bodies with Surface Tension
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-18)Capillary phenomena have been studied by mathematicians and physicists for hundreds of years. In this thesis, both two-dimensional(2D) and three-dimensional(3D) bodies floating on an unbounded reservoir are studied based ... -
Flocking for Multi-Agent Dynamical Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-24)In this thesis, we discuss models for multi-agent dynamical systems. We study the tracking/migration problem for flocks and a theoretical framework for design and analysis of flocking algorithm is presented. The interactions ... -
Flood risk and sanitation service delivery in informal settlements under climate change: a case study of Cape Town, South Africa
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-31)Informal settlements are home to 32 per cent of urban dwellers worldwide. Access to sanitation in these spaces is amongst the most pressing needs and contentious issues in cities in developing countries. Shack dwellers, ... -
Flood Risk Management in Canada: A Political Discourse Analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-02)Floods are Canada’s most frequent and expensive natural catastrophe; they are associated with the largest losses of any climate-related disaster in Canada (Nastev & Todorov, 2013). As the impacts of climate change take ... -
Flooded with terror: Identifying existential threat in water crisis communication and exploring gender bias in the depths of water management
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-30)The purpose of this dissertation was to advance understanding of gender inequity in water management and the ways in which threatening water communication may contribute to that inequity. Water crises are increasing with ... -
Flora Tristan: Rethinking the Intersection of 19th Century French Women’s Travel Writing and History of Anthropology
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-21)Flora Tristan was a 19th century French socialist and feminist writer and activist. During her lifetime, Tristan published two works of travel writing, Pérégrinations d'une paria (Tristan 1838a; 1838b) and Promenades ... -
Flow and Sediment Routing in Urban Channels with Flashy Hydrographs
(University of Waterloo, 2023-10-20)Urbanization has a major impact on flow and erosion in open channels. By replacing rural land surfaces with impervious surfaces, urbanization causes a decrease in infiltration and an increase in surface runoff and faster ... -
A Flow Calorimetric Study of Adsorption of Dibenzothiophene, Naphthalene and Quinoline on Zeolites
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-20)The purpose of this work is to develop a reliable procedure for determination of liquid phase heats of adsorption via a flow calorimetric technique. The second objective is to study heats of adsorption of target sulfur ... -
A Flow Cytometry Based Assay for the Quantification of Viruses Using Changes in Infected Cell Granularity
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-21)A need exists for rapid, low-cost, and accurate infectious viral quantification method in the bio-pharmaceutical field for the production of vaccines and virus-based therapeutics. Two of the most common and traditionally ... -
Flow Down a Wavy Inclined Plane
(University of Waterloo, 2011-03-29)Under certain conditions, flow down an inclined plane destabilizes and a persistent series of interfacial waves develop. An interest in determining under what conditions a flow becomes unstable and how the interface ... -
Flow Dynamics and Aeroacoustics of Flow-induced Vibration of Bluff Bodies
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-17)Flow-induced vibration (FIV), a common phenomenon of fluid-structure interaction (FSI), is found everywhere and at all scales in the applications of marine, civil, aeronautical, and power engineering. The study of FIV ... -
Flow in the Vascular System Post Stent Implantation: Examining the Near-Stent Flow Physics to Guide Next-Generation Stent Design
(University of Waterloo, 2014-04-24)The prevalence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) has increased dramatically due in part to the increased rates of obesity in North America. Atherosclerosis, the most prevalent type of CVD, is a progressive disease characterized ... -
Flow Separation on the β-plane
(University of Waterloo, 2009-05-15)In non-rotating fluids, boundary-layer separation occurs when the nearly inviscid flow just outside a viscous boundary-layer experiences an appreciable deceleration due to a region of adverse pressure gradient. The fluid ... -
Flow-Induced Vibration of Elastically Mounted Cylinder-Plate Assemblies
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-17)The transverse flow-induced vibration (FIV) of an elastically supported cylinder-plate assembly (viz., a rigid splitter-plate attached to the downstream side of a cylinder) is investigated deeply and systematically in this ...