Urbanisation is a phenomenon that has continued undisturbed since the rise of the industrial era. As the populations of cities increase so do the needs and demands associated with urban expansion. These include the provision of adequate infrastructure to support…

Cycling as a mode of travel is becoming more popular especially in urban areas like Montreal, Canada. With this reality come serious concerns for cyclist safety and health. These concerns have initiated the need to study the determinants of cyclist…

The research project presents a framework for developing a detailed Geographic Information System (GIS) inventory and condition rating of the water supply system at McGill Downtown Campus (MDC), based on the previous work by Sipos (2006), and Sipos and Mirza…

Telecommunication structures are essential components of communication and post-disaster networks that must remain operational after a design-level of earthquake. Although many studies have been done to evaluate the response of these structures when subjected to wind and earthquakes, almost all…

Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering necessitates the development of simulation models that can predict the nonlinear behavior of structural components as part of a building subjected to seismic loading. For reliable seismic assessment of buildings, these models need to be calibrated with…

The goal of this study is to examine the possibility of reducing the epistemic uncertainties in seismic vulnerability estimation methods, particularly when properties of simplified models utilized in these methods are fitted to those obtained, for example, from Ambient Vibration…

Waste biosolids disposal is an important environmental and economic burden to wastewater treatment plants, and the commercialization of new technologies to reduce biosolids production has been rising over the last decade. Ozonation of activated sludge (AS) biosolids is one of…

AbstractThe overall objective of this research is to evaluate significant mechanisms for deposition of surface-modified NZVI in granular subsurface media during transport. Although surface-modified NZVI have been shown to transport more easily than bare NZVI, there is a lack of…

Collapse of transmission towers can occur due to accidental loads such as conductor breakages, failures of insulators or other components, either under every day conditions (components with marginal strengths) or under extreme conditions such as ice storms, thunderstorms, tornadoes, fires,…