Civil and Environmental Engineering
This is the collection for the University of Waterloo's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering .
Research outputs are organized by type (eg. Master Thesis, Article, Conference Paper).
Waterloo faculty, students, and staff can contact us or visit the UWSpace guide to learn more about depositing their research.
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Infrastructure Asset Management Readiness Assessment of Ontario Municipal Water Utilities
(University of Waterloo, 2020-02-26)The safety and quality of services provided by municipal water utilities depend on sound water and wastewater infrastructure. Nevertheless, according to the 2016 Canadian Infrastructure Report Card, about 12% of this ... -
The Storey-Based Stability of Steel Frames Subjected to Variable Gravity and Fire Loading
(University of Waterloo, 2020-02-20)The concept of storey-based stability has been developed over the past several decades, and includes powerful methods to holistically assess the structural integrity of unbraced and semi-braced steel frames. Recently, it ... -
Direct Method for Floor Response Spectra Considering Soil-Structure Interaction
(University of Waterloo, 2020-02-19)Soil-Structure Interaction (SSI) analysis is required in structural dynamic analysis under seismic excitations in the current standards, and it significantly influences the Floor Response Spectra (FRS),which are used in ... -
A hybrid Bayesian network model for predicting delays in train operations
(Elsevier, 2019-01)We present a Bayesian network-(BN) based train delay prediction model to tackle the complexity and dependency nature of train operations. Three different BN schemes, namely, heuristic hill-climbing, primitive linear and ... -
Towards a comprehensive framework for foam concrete mix design
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-23)Foam concrete is a low-density, highly workable cementitious material, created by blending a fine-aggregate paste with a foaming agent. Properties of foam concrete suggest potential for commercial exploitation of the ... -
Full-Depth Reclamation with Hydraulic Road Binders
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-20)According to a recent report, 16.4% of Canadian roads are in a poor or very poor condition. This means 146,255 km of the Canadian roads are either unfit for service or are approaching the end of their service life. The ... -
Pavement Flooding Risk Assessment and Management in the Changing Climate
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-15)Flooding, which can cause substantial infrastructure damages resulting in adverse social, environmental, and economical consequences, is a rising concern in the changing climate. Road networks consisting of interconnected ... -
Numerical considerations for the simulation of proppant transport through fractures
(Elsevier, 2019-09)Injection of a proppant slurry (fluid mixed with granular material) into a reservoir to keep fractures open is a common procedure in hydraulic fracturing treatments. This article presents the numerical methodology for ... -
Assessment of Regional Flood Frequency Analysis Frameworks for Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-10)Floods are a devastating natural disaster causing economic loss and even threatening human lives. A better understanding of floods can lead to improved design of flood mitigation measures. The Natural Sciences and Engineering ... -
Regional Frequency Analysis Estimates of Extreme Rainfall Events under Climate Change
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-09)Extreme rainfall events have a long history of causing large economic damages in urban areas and even loss of human life. Reliable estimates of extreme rainfall intensities for different rainfall durations are essential ... -
Impacts of Climate Change on Canadian Airport Pavements
(University of Waterloo, 2019-12-20)Greenhouse gasses (GHG) emitted by the burning of fossil fuels and supplementary anthropogenic activities are on the rise since the industrial revolution. The world is becoming warmer and more polluted with such gases, ... -
Hydraulic Road Binder (HRB) and Its Use for Subgrade Stabilization in Ontario, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2019-12-18)The term “subgrade” refers to the in-situ material composed of natural soil located underneath the pavement structural layers. The quality of natural subgrade is highly influenced by soil type, moisture content, and organic ... -
Typologies of Nitrogen Surplus Across Continental US: Shifting Hotspots and Dominant Controls
(University of Waterloo, 2019-12-17)Flows of reactive nitrogen (N) have significantly increased over the last century, corresponding to increases in the global population. The pressures on the N cycle include human waste, fossil fuel combustion as well as ... -
Work Zone Safety Assessment and Throughput Analysis for High Volume Highways Using Random Parameter Models
(University of Waterloo, 2019-12-12)Highways and freeways could be considered the most important transportation infrastructure in North America; these vital routes are necessary for the efficient haulage of huge amounts of goods and services. Several factors ... -
Estimates of gridded relative changes in 24-h extreme rainfall intensities based on pooled frequency analysis
(Elsevier, 2019-10)The potential effect of climate change needs to be considered in urban infrastructure design and risk assessment to improve reliability. The present study proposes a methodology for obtaining grid-scale relative changes ... -
Automatic feature selection and weighting for the formation of homogeneous groups for regional IDF estimation
(Elsevier, 2019-08)The intensity-duration frequency (IDF) curve has been used as an effective tool to quantify the risk associated with the impact of extreme rainfall on civil infrastructure. However, recent changes in the rainfall climatology ... -
Bedload sediment transport regimes of urban gravel-bed rivers under different management scenarios
(University of Waterloo, 2019-12-09)Watershed urbanization profoundly alters the hydrologic characteristics of urban rivers compared to their rural counterparts. This change in hydrologic conditions in combination with alterations to the sediment supply ...
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