Engineering (Faculty of)
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Mechanical Characterization of Soft Materials Using Volume-Controlled Cavitation
(University of Waterloo, 2020-03-31)The mechanical properties of soft materials are used in a wide range of fields and applications including biomedical engineering, sports, and automobile industry, in addition to medical applications. Therefore, several ... -
Microwave Near-Field Imaging and Material Characterization
(University of Waterloo, 2020-03-27)In recent years, microwave imaging has attracted many researchers from various fields such as medical imaging, remote sensing, and industrial ones because of its high degree of penetration, non-ionizing and safe nature, ... -
Defining Haptic Experience: Foundations for Understanding, Communicating, and Evaluating HX
(ACM, 2020-04-25)Haptic technology is maturing, with expectations and evidence that it will contribute to user experience (UX). However, we have very little understanding about how haptic technology can influence people’s experience. ... -
Measuring wellbeing performance of carbon emissions using hybrid measure and meta-frontier techniques: Empirical tests for G20 countries and implications for China
(Elsevier, 2019-11-10)A quantitative measure of performance that integrates national-level carbon emission profiles with key parameters of social and economic wellbeing can provide an effective management tool for policy interventions. This ... -
Energy Consumption Analysis of XRP Validator
(2020)The XRP Ledger is an open-source payment system with a primary focus on providing an efficient cross-border payment network. The network achieves distributed consensus and prevents double-spending all while remaining ... -
A low-power dynamic comparator for low-offset applications
(Elsevier, 2019-11)In this paper, a low-power method for double-tail comparators is introduced. Using the proposed method, the power consumption of the pre-amplifier which is the dominant part is reduced considerably. Thanks to this method, ... -
Investigation of Whiplash Associated Disorders using Finite Element Neck Models with Active Musculature in Frontal, Rear and Lateral Impact
(University of Waterloo, 2020-03-19)Whiplash associated disorders (WAD) represent one of the most frequent injuries following a motor vehicle collision, with a significant economic cost of $29 billion in the United States and €10 billion in Europe. Although ... -
Determination Of Thermal Properties Of Mineral Wool Insulation Materials For Use In Full-Scale Fire Modelling
(University of Waterloo, 2020-03-19)Temperature-dependent materials properties are required for use in many contexts in fire safety engineering. While property values for many materials do exist, we often are limited in our understanding of how representative ... -
“My pharmacist”: Creating and maintaining relationship between physicians and pharmacists in primary care settings
(Elsevier, 2020-01)Background Pharmacists and physicians are being increasingly encouraged to adopt a collaborative approach to patient care, and delivery of health services. Strong collaboration between pharmacists and physicians is known ... -
Fuzzy levels of preference strength in a graph model with multiple decision makers
(Elsevier, 2019-12-15)A new hybrid preference structure combining multiple-level strength of preference and fuzzy preference is proposed to facilitate the modeling and analysis of strategic conflicts involving multiple decision makers (DMs) ... -
Intelligent Microwaves-Based Modalities for Breast Cancer Detection
(University of Waterloo, 2020-03-13)Breast cancer is considered to be one of the major causes of mortality in women worldwide. Detection of breast tumors in their early stage is the key factor for possible successful treatment and can significantly reduce ... -
Finding a New Commons: Re-Inhabiting the School in Post-Urban Japan
(University of Waterloo, 2020-03-13)Japan’s megacities are often captured as dense, dynamic and ever-expanding. These images, disseminated in popular media, belie a growing national phenomenon; urban migration, a declining birthrate and an aging population ... -
Compensated Row-Column Ultrasound Imaging System
(University of Waterloo, 2020-03-12)Ultrasound imaging is a valuable tool in many applications ranging from material science to medical imaging. While 2-D ultrasound imaging is more commonly used, 3-D ultrasound imaging offers unique opportunities that can ... -
Improving Passive Magnetic Inspection for Reinforced Concrete Condition Assessment
(University of Waterloo, 2020-03-06)Life quality, industrial productivity, and community safety can be assured by the reliability and the safety of infrastructure such as highways, bridges, and energy-supply systems. Reinforced concrete is the most-commonly ... -
Numerical Modeling of Permafrost in Heterogeneous Media
(University of Waterloo, 2020-03-05)Interest in numerical modeling of permafrost has increased over the past decade due to accelerating rates of permafrost thaw. Discontinuous permafrost regions are particularly susceptible to climate change since small ... -
Modelling and Optimization of a Pilot-Scale Entrained Flow gasifier using Artificial Neural Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2020-03-04)In this research, the construction and validation of both ANN and RNN models was presented to accurately and efficiently predict both steady state and dynamic performance of a pilot-scale gasifier unit. The corresponding ... -
Stability-based fire resistance duration of unbraced steel frames
(Journal of Structural Fire Engineering, 2020)Purpose The collapse of a structure resulting from the instability of steel frames due to fire is the worst failure mode to consider in fire-structural engineering, and should be avoided. The purpose of this paper is to ... -
APPENDIX to DRAMbulism: Balancing Performance and Predictability through Dynamic Pipelining
(2020-03-02)Worst-case execution bounds for real-time programs are highly impacted by the latency of accessing hardware shared resources, such as off-chip DRAM. While many different memory controller designs have been proposed in the ... -
A density functional theory analysis on syngas adsorption on NiO (100) surface
(Elsevier, 2019-12-31)Oxygen carrier (OC) design can effectively improve the performance of chemical looping combustion (CLC) and realize fossil fuel combustion at low energy-cost CO2 capture. This study describes the adsorption principles of ... -
Nonlinear model predictive control of a multiscale thin film deposition process using artificial neural networks
(Elsevier, 2019-11-02)The purpose of this study was to employ Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) to develop data-driven models that would enable the shrinking horizon nonlinear model predictive control of a computationally intensive stochastic ...
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