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The Life-Cycle Assessment of a Single-Storey Retail Building in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-26)In North America, the operation of buildings accounts for approximately one third of the total energy use and greenhouse gas emissions annually. Office buildings are responsible for roughly 35% of the total commercial/in ... -
Lightweight Cellular Concrete as Flexible Pavement Subbase Material: Field Performance and Sustainability Study
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-01)Enhancing the long-term performance of road infrastructure is an important goal for engineers in Canada, especially with changing climatic conditions. This has brought about varying approaches in design and construction ... -
Lightweight Cellular Concrete: Applicability of Pavement Subbase Layer Materials
(University of Waterloo, 2021-12-06)Canada is the second-largest country in the world and has over 1.04 million km of roads. Residents and industries rely on the road network as it contributes significantly to quality of life. Pavement structures built over ... -
LOAD PREDICTION FOR A MOORED CONICAL DRILLSHIP IN LEVEL UNBROKEN ICE: A DISCRETE ELEMENT AND EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION
(University of Waterloo, 2009-12-22)This thesis is composed of theoretical, experimental, and numerical studies. In Part I, it discusses fundamental challenges of the discrete element method, provides a set of algorithms for addressing them, and presents ... -
Local Calibration of AASHTOWare® Using Ontario Pavement Management System Data PMS2
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-23)Well designed built and maintained pavements will sustain the safe and comfortable transportation of people and goods. Effective monitoring requires information about evolving pavement condition, including details about ... -
Long Term Two-Phase Flow Analysis of the Deep Low Permeability Rock at the Bruce DGR Site
(University of Waterloo, 2011-04-27)Abnormal pressures have been measured in the deep boreholes at the Bruce site, southern Ontario, where a deep geologic repository for low and intermediate level radioactive waste disposal has been proposed. The pressure ... -
Long-term behaviour of GFRP prestressed concrete beams
(University of Waterloo, 2015-11-12)During the last two decades, fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites have emerged as prom-ising materials that can be used in lieu of steel for reinforcing concrete structures due to their corrosion-resistant properties, ... -
Machine-Learning Framework for Efficient Multi-Asset Rehabilitation Planning
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-25)While smart cities are viewed as the way of the future, the infrastructure assets expected to support the different smart services are currently managed using frameworks that are outdated, subjective, and inefficient. Such ... -
Material Modelling for Structural Analysis of Polyethylene
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-17)The purpose of this work was to develop a practical method for constitutive modelling of polyethylene, based on a phenomenological approach, which can be applied for structural analysis. Polyethylene (PE) is increasingly ... -
A Mathematical Model for Winter Maintenance Operations Management
(University of Waterloo, 2005)Scheduling of winter maintenance operations such as plowing or salting is a difficult and complex problem. Proper selection and timing of such operations is critical to their effectiveness, however scheduling decisions ... -
Mathematical Modeling of Extended Interface During Gravity Drainage With Application to CO2 Sequestration
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-25)Removal of CO2 directly from anthropogenic sources (capture) and its disposal in geological formations can take place for medium-term time periods (storage), or it can be permanent (sequestration), with the CO2 eventually ... -
Mathematical simulation of a dipole delivery system for in-situ remediation
(University of Waterloo, 2010-02-19)Abstract In-situ remediation using reactive zones is a promising groundwater contaminant treatment technology that involves the injection of a reagent(s) into the subsurface to destruct harmful target chemicals. For ... -
Measurement of Ventilation and Drying of Vinyl Siding and Brick Clad Wall Assemblies
(University of Waterloo, 2004)Control of moisture and heat flow through building enclosure assemblies is a critical component of overall building performance. This thesis shows that significant drying of moisture in wall assemblies is possible and ... -
Measuring and Visualizing Integrated Project Interface Status
(University of Waterloo, 2020-04-14)The overall goal of this thesis is to develop and validate ways to effectively measure and visualize integrated project interface status in terms of interface health, workload, and engineering progress. Collaboration, ... -
Measuring Work Zone Throughput and User Delays
(University of Waterloo, 2011-02-18)A larger amount of funding and attention are going toward highway infrastructure of Ontario for rehabilitation, maintenance and construction projects. These rehabilitation and maintenance activities on highways involve ... -
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 ... -
Mechanistic Framework for Risk Assessment of Cast Iron Water Main Fractures due to Moisture-Induced Soil Expansion
(University of Waterloo, 2021-07-09)North American water distribution networks are at significant risk of failure due to aging cast iron pipes. For instance, of the 650,000 kilometers of cast-iron pipes in active service in the United States and Canada, ... -
Mesoscale Hydrological Model Validation and Verification using Stable Water Isotopes: The isoWATFLOOD Model
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-11)This thesis develops a methodology for mesoscale model verification and validation that is founded on the rigorous constraint imposed by the need to conserve both water mass and isotopes simultaneously. The isoWATFLOOD ... -
A Method for Evaluating and Prioritizing Candidate Intersections for Transit Signal Priority Implementation
(University of Waterloo, 2010-06-18)Transit agencies seeking to improve transit service delivery are increasingly considering the deployment of transit signal priority (TSP). However, the impact of TSP on transit service and on the general traffic stream ... -
A Methodology for Design and Adaptation of Infrastructure Under Deep Climate Uncertainty
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-03)Proper decision-making in design, and adaptation management of infrastructure is essential, in the face of environmental uncertainties. As and example, current climate change models yield a range of widely diverging ...