Civil and Environmental Engineering Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains theses and dissertations from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, collected from the Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Numerical Models and Design Loads for Wind Turbines under Downbursts, Mostafa Mohamed Mohamed Ramadan Ahmed
Flexural Behaviour of Concrete Beams with High Strength Reinforcement, Sohaib Akbar
Behavior of Hybrid and Monopile Foundation Systems for OWT: Centrifuge testing and Numerical Modelling, Yazeed A. Alsharedah
The Novel Application of Electrical Resistivity Tomography for Spatiotemporal Monitoring of Urban Stormwater Bioretention Systems, Darren Alvarenga
Seismic Site Characterization and Response in Metropolitan Vancouver, Jamal Assaf
Design of Stick-Framed Wood Roofs Under Extreme Wind Loads, Caspar Bain
Hydrogen-Rich Syngas Derived from Smouldering Biomass and Hydrocarbon Wastes, Joshua K. Brown
Physical Investigation of Downburst Winds and Applicability to Full Scale Events, Federico Canepa
Evaluation of the Impacts of De-Icing Salts on the Performance of Bioretention Media in Retaining Phosphorus From Urban Stormwater, Brennan S. Donado Visbal
Comprehensive Study of Induced Drag Force on Integral Abutment Piles, Osama F. El Hadi Drbe
Performance and Ultimate Limit State of Large-Span Soil-Steel Structures, Kareem Embaby
Static liquefaction and critical state mechanics of gold mine tailings subjected to different stress paths, Amir reza Fotovvat
Exploring Valuable and Potentially Harmful By-Products Formed and/or Released from Smouldering Treatment of Sewage Sludge, Taryn Ashley Fournie
Evaluation of Fresh Groundwater Resources and Nitrogen Discharge to the Coastal Lagoon of an Atoll Island, James D. Gale
Self-sustaining Smouldering Combustion of Granular Activated Carbon Contaminated with Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances – Fluorine Mass Balance and Enhanced Methods of Mineralization, Brian Gerald Harrison
Simulation of non-homogeneous wind processes, comparison between numerical and experimental model of a bridge, Héctor Hernández Landero
Compound flooding analysis over the Canadian coastal regions, Farshad Jalili Pirani
Assessment of Geo-mechanical properties of lunar simulants, Devansh Joshi
Performance of Fouled Railroad Superstructure Subjected to Traversing Heavy Haul Trains, Majid Kh Touqan
A computational fluid dynamics-based surrogate wind turbine blade aerodynamic model for hybrid simulation, Eric Lalonde
Effect of Structural Nonlinearities on Flutter of Cable-Supported Bridges, Sébastien Maheux
Erosion Control of Steep Open Channels Using Articulated Concrete Blocks, MohammadOmid Marandi
Hydration Kinetics, Microstructure, and Mechanical Strength Development of Cement-based Composites Incorporating Phase Change Materials, Afshin Marani
Establishing second-generation total nitrogen removal for carbon-captured authentic wastewater using membrane biofilm reactor, Sadaf Mehrabi
Wind-Borne Debris Resistance of Façades: Identification of Alternative Impact Test Requirements, Angela Mejorin
Engineering Cooling Time and Waste Heat Recovery for Thermal Treatment Beds, Ryan B. Morales
Optimization of Advanced Building Integrated Photovoltaic and Thermal System with Dual Working Fluid, Barilelo E. Nghana
Characterizing the Concurrent Occurrence of Tornadoes and Flash Floods Across Canada, Yeu Deck Ngui
Wastewater Aeration Process Dynamic Modelling: Combined Mechanistic and Machine Learning Approach, Yuehe Pan
Spatiotemporal Changes of Lagged Compound Dry and Wet Spells in the Northwest North America Under Climate Change, Reza Rezvani
Liquefaction Susceptibility Assessment of Oil Sands Tailings, Grytan Sarkar
Improved Imaging Of Dense Non-Aqueous Phase Liquids With Three-Dimensional Surface-To-Horizontal Borehole Electrical Resistivity Tomography (S2HB ERT), Maxwell L. Servos
Assessment of Tropical Cyclone Wind and Wave Hazards and Their Effect on the Reliability of Wind Turbines, Chao Sheng
Effective wind area for the design of roof sheathing under wind loading, Nicole E. M. Szilagyi
Spatio-Temporal Variability of Phosphorus Near the Groundwater-Stream Interface, Meghan Vissers
Carbon Injection to Support In-Situ Smouldering Remediation, Gillian Wilton
Effects of Climate Change on the Probability of Urban Tree Failures from Wind Gusts, Samuel J. Woolsey
Modelling and Simulation of Nonstationary Non-Gaussian Wind Speed and Wind Pressure Coefficients, Minyu Xiao
Analysis of Standing Seam Metal Roofs Subjected to Extreme Wind Loads, Yuchao Xia
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Implication of city growth on wind-induced loads for cladding and structural design, Hadil M. Abdallah
Behavior of Wind Turbine Towers and Blades Under Tornado Wind Fields, Mohamed AbuGazia
Guidelines for designing the overhead transmission tower foundations adjacent to cohesionless slopes, Meshel Q. Alkahtani
Machine Learning Prediction of Structural Response for Reinforced Concrete Members under Blast Loading, Monjee Almustafa
Performance of Single and Grouped Helical Piles under Strong Earthquake Shaking, Abdelrahman F.F. Aly
Experimental simulation of tornado-like vortices and their impact on high-rise buildings, Arash Ashrafi
Structural Performance of Glass Façades Exposed to Fire, Mohamed Badr
Enhanced Primary Sludge Fermentation and Anaerobic Digestion for Integrated Carbon Upgrade and Resource Recovery, Gholamreza Bahreini
Practical Issues in Floodplain Mapping Over Large Regions, James Eric Braden
Anammox process for nitrogen removal: development of sustainable gel beads and its application in fluidized bed reactors (FBRs), Mohammad M I Chowdhury
A Case Study on Medium and High Rise Timber Buildings, Moustafa EL-Assaly
Cellulose biodegradability and its impact on enhanced biological phosphorus removal, Moustafa Ibrahim Elbahrawi
Multi-Objective Optimization of Green Transportation Operations in Supply Chain Management, Nayera Elgharably
Full-Scale Field Study of a Geogrid-Reinforced Unpaved Road System, Abdalla El Tawati
Scaled Physical Modeling of the Dynamics of Granular Flow in Hopper Silos, Hagos Eman
New Experimental Methods For modelling Canopy Problems, Marilena Enus
Effects of the soil spatial variability on pipelines, Jose Luis Espinosa Mendez
Behaviour of Transmission Lines Subjected to Tornadoes Through Aeroelastic Testing and Numerical Modeling, Nima Ezami
Probabilistic seismic landslide mapping for western Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Ali Fallah Yeznabad
Estimation of tropical cyclone rain hazard for sites in coastal region of mainland China, Jiyang Gu
A partial-turbulence approach to estimate peak wind loads on low-rise building roofs, Yitian Guo
Active fluids: rheological properties and response to light of suspensions of Synechocystis sp. CPCC 534, Zahra Habibi
Towards Realistic Simulation of Penetration Tests and Instability Analysis of Sand: A Micromechanical Perspective, Seyedshayan Hashemi
Long-term Field Performance of Geomembrane-Lined Cover Systems at Mine Waste Rock Piles, Deanna Hersey
Seismic Response of Driven and Helical Piles in Non-liquefiable and Liquefiable Soils, Ahmed Fouad Hussein
Experimental Study of Tornado-Induced Pressures, Aya Kassab
Time-dependent fragility assessment of aged concrete gravity dam subjected to seismic load-with application to a dam in Korea, Jungmyung Kim
Uncertainties in internal pressure of oil pipelines and implications for the reliability analysis, Yue Liu
Assessment of the impacts of climate change, land cover transition, and internal climate variability on the hydrology of a forested watershed, Vahid Mehdipour
Assessing the Evolution of Mine Water Quality With Empirical 'First-Flush' Models, Patrick J. Merritt
Performance Assessment and Design Guidelines for RC Three-Sided Culverts, Safwat Hassan Ramadan
Inter-disciplinary Characterization of Streambed Heterogeneity and its Influence on Groundwater-Stream Water Interactions, Kyle Robinson
Urban Heat Mitigation for Current and Future Conditions: A case study for downtown London ON, Maryam Shams
Towards Multiclass Damage Detection and Localization using Limited Vibration Measurements, Sandeep Sony
Considerations for the Tornado-Resilient Structural Design of Low-Rise Buildings, Cody J. Van Der Kooi
Behaviour of Transmission Line Conductors under Tornadoes, Dingyu Yao
Impact of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining on Water bodies and Treatment: The Case of Birim River Basin in Ghana, Adwoa Boadua Yirenkyi Fianko
Static liquefaction of oil sand tailings: an experimental investigation into the effect of saturation and fines content, Farshad Zehforoosh
Burst Capacity Evaluation of Corroded Pipelines under Internal Pressure and Internal Pressure Combined with Longitudinal Compression, Shulong Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Progressive Failure of Transmission Line Towers under Different Tornado Wind Fields, Wesam AbdElhamid Mohamed
Seismic Performance of Superelastic Shape Memory Alloy Reinforced Concrete Shear Wall Systems, Emad A. Abraik
System Reliability Analysis of Defected Pile group Foundations, Abdalla E. Adlan Alhashmi
Biodegradability Of Cellulose And Its Impact On Oxygen Transfer Efficiency And Biological Nutrients Removal, Ahmed Shawki Ahmed
Effect of the C-source and COD/N on Nitrite and Partial Nitrate Denitrification, Ahmed Fathy Elyas Badia
Finite Element Analyses and Random Field Modeling of Naturally Corroded Underground Energy Pipelines, Ji Bao
Machine Learning Prediction of Shear Capacity of Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete, Wassim Ben Chaabene
Water Supply Capacity Development in the Context of Global Change, Patrick Breach
New Model And Simulation Algorithm Of Nonstationary Non-gaussian Ground Motions Based On S-transform, Xizhong Cui
Biomechanics of Trees under Extreme Wind Loading Events, Mojtaba Dargahi
Joint Wind and Ice Effects on Transmission Lines in Mountainous Terrain, Daniel Davalos Arriaga
Smouldering Combustion Treatment of Soils and Granular Activated Carbon Contaminated with Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances, Alexandra L. Duchesne
Material evaluation and structural monitoring of early-age masonry structures, Kyle Dunphy
Assessment of the Performance of Field-Scale Bioretention Systems to Reduce Phosphorus Loads from Urban Stormwater, Jaeleah J. Goor
Ultimate and serviceability limit states of large shallow foundations under combined loading, Pengpeng He
Tornado Occurrence Modelling and Equivalent Tornado Design Wind Profile for Canada, Qian Huang