Publications 2008

Academic staff

Boyd, A.J. | Chouinard, L.E. | Chu, V.H. | Frigon, D. | Gaskin, S.J. | Gehr, R. | Ghoshal, S. | McClure, G. | Meguid, M.A. | Miranda-Moreno, L.F. | Mitchell, D. | Nguyen, V-T-V. | Nicell, J.A. | Rogers, C. | Selvadurai, A.P.S. | Shao, Y.

 

BOYD, A.J. (Hartell, J.A., Boyd, A.J. and Patel, V.) (2008) "Sorptivity testing to evaluate freeze-thaw behaviour of high performance concretes", JCI.JPCEA/fib, Tokyo, Japan 6 pp, CD-ROM.

 

CHOUINARD, L.E. (Rossset, P. and Chouinard, L.E.) (2008) "Characterization of site effects in Montreal, Canada", Natural Hazards, Accepted: 6 June 2008, published online: 1 July 2008, 14 pp.

(Conciatorici, D., Chouinard, L.E., Samson, E., and Marchand, J.) (2008) "A statististical analysis of the diffusion coefficient values evaluated from migration test", American Society for Testing and Materials "ASTM" Symposium on Tests for Measuring Concrete Resistance to Fluid Penetration, June, Norfolk, Virginia, 10 pp.

(Caron, D. and Chouinard, L.E.) (2008) "Indices de condition – Évacuateurs, Une method pour determiner l’état des évacuateurs", Colloque SHF – CFBR Dimensionnement et Fonctionnement des Évacuateurs de crues, Paris, France.

(Gervais, R., Peyras, L., Serre, D., Chouinard, L.E. and Diab, Y.) (2008) "Condition evaluation of water retaining structures as an aid to maintenance:Comparative practices of Hydro-Quebec and Cemagref", Canadian Dam Association Annual Conference, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 15 pp.

 

CHU, V.H. (Pinilla, C.E. and Chu, V.H.) (2008) "Waves and bed-friction effect on stability of transverse sheer flow in shallow waters", Journal of Coastal Research, Vol. S52, pp. 207-214.

(Li, X. and Chu, V.H.) (2008) "Turbulence and mixing across gravitationally unstable interface by tank-overturn experiment", Journal of Hydro-environment Research, Vol. 1, No. 3-4 pp. 176-186.

"Modelling and simulation in water resources and environment engineering", ICE Journal of Engineering and Computational Mechanics, Vol.1, Issue 1, pp. 46-47.

"Turbulence across gravitationally stable and unstable interfaces", Proceedings of the Engineering Mechanics Institute’s Inaugural Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 19-21, 1 p.

(Tan, L.W., Pinilla, C.E. and Chu, V.H.) (2008) "Simulation of water advancing over dry bed using lagrangian blocks on eulerian mesh", Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics, 6 pp.

(Pinilla, C.E., Bouhairie, S. and Chu, V.H.) (2008) "Frictional and radiation dampings on shear instability", Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on computational Fluid Dynamics, 6 pp.

(Tan, L.W. and Chu, V.H.) (2008) "Wave run-up using lagrangian blocks on eulerian mesh", Second International Symposium on Shallow Flow, 6 pp.

(Pinilla, C.E. and Chu, V.H.) (2008) "Wave and turbulence interaction in a square basin", Second International Symposium on Shallow Flow, 6 pp.

(Pinilla, C.E., Bouhairie, S., Tan, L.W., and Chu, V.H.) (2008) "Minimal Intervention to simulations using the shallow-water equation", Second International Symposium on Shallow Flow, 6 pp.

"Wave and turbulence simulations using the shallow water equations", Keynote Lecture, Second International Symposium on Shallow Flow, 12 pp.

 

FRIGON, D. (Lavallée, B., Frigon, D., Lessard, P., Vanrolleghem, P.A., Yuan, Z. and van Loosdrecht, M.C.M.) (2008) "Modelling using rRNA-structgured biomass models", 1st International Water Association/Water Environment Federation (IWA/WEF) Wastewater Treatment Modelling Seminar, Mont Sainte-Anne, Quebec, June, pp. 53-68.

 

GASKIN, S.J. Lavertu, T., Mydlarski, L. and Gaskin, S.J.) (2008) "Differential diffusion of high-Schmidt-number passive scalars in a turbulent jet", Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 612: 439-475.

(Carrera-Hernandez, J.J., and Gaskin, S.J.) (2008) "The Basin of Mexico Hydrogeological Database (BMHDB): Implementation, queries and interaction with open source software", Environmental Modelling and Software.

Carrera-Hernandez, J.J., and Gaskin, S.J.) (2008) "Spatio-temporal dynamics of potential aquifer recharge:Application to the Basin of Mexico", Journal of Hydrology, 353(3-4): 228-246.

(Khorsandi, B., Gaskin, S.J. and Mydlarski, L.) (2008) "The effect of background turbulence on the entrainment into an axisymmetric turbulent jet", Second International Symposium on Shallow Flows International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR), Hong Kong, December 10-12.

 

GEHR, R. (Gehr, R., Parent Uribe, S., Da Silva Baptista, I.F. and Mazer, B) (2008) "Concentrations of endotoxins in waters around the island of Montreal, and treatment options", Water Quality Research Journal of Canada, Vol. 43, No. 4, pp. 291-303.

Falsanisi, D., Gehr, R., Liberti, L., and Notarnicola, M.) (2008) "Effect of suspended particles on disinfection of a physicochemical municipal wastewater with peracetic acid", Water Quality Research Journal of Canada, Vol. 43, No. 1, pp. 47-54.

 

GHOSHAL, S. (Bernardez, L. and Ghoshal, S.) (2008) "Solubilization kinetics for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons transferring from a non-aqueous phase liquid to non-ionic surfactant solutions", Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 320:298-306.

(Keane, A., Lau, P.C.K. and Ghoshal, S.) (2008) "Novel use of the whole-cell bioluminescent biosensor PpF1G4 to assess the bioavailability enhancement of hydrophobic organic compounds in non-ionic surfactant solutions", Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 99:86-98.

 

MCCLURE, G. (Neurohr, T. and McClure, G.) (2008) "Shake table testing of museum display cases", Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, 35: 1-12.

(Ghafari Oskoei, S.A. and McClure, G.) (2008) "Dynamic analysis of cable roods under transient wind:A comparison between time domain and frequency domain approaches", Tsinghua Science and Technology, 13(S1): 53-57.

(Faridafshin, F. and McClure, G.) (2008) "Seismic response of tall guyed masts to asynchronous multiple-support and vertical grounds motions", American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Journal of Structural Engineering, 134(8): 1374-1382.

(Faridfshin, F., McClure, G. and Ghafari Oskoei, S.A.) (2008) "Response of tall guyed communication masts to seismic wave propagation", Proceedings of the 14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (14WCEE), October 12-17, Beijing, China. Paper No. 06-0089-8 p.

(Gilles, D., and McClure, G.) (2008) "Development of a period database for buildings in Montreal using ambient vibrations", Proceedings of the 14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (14WCEE), October 12-17, Beijing, China. Paper No. 12-03-0016, 8 p.

(Ghafari Oskoei, S.A., and McClure, G.) (2008) "Dynamic analysis of cable roods under transient wind: A comparison between time domain and frequency domain approaches", Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computing in Civil, and Building Engineering (ICCCBE-XII) and International Conference on Information Technology in Construction, October 16-18, Beijing, China. Paper No. 025, 6 p.

(McClure, G., Langlois, S. and Rogier, J.) (2008) "Understanding how overhead lines respond to high intensity wind storms", Proceeding of the 2008 American Society of Civil Engineers - Structural Engineering Institute (ASCE - SEI) Structures Congress, Crossing Borders, April 24-26, Vancouver, British Columbia, Paper No. 199, 10 p.

 

MEGUID, M.A. (Dang, H.K. and Meguid, M.A.) (2008) "The application of a multilaminate model to simulate the response of structured clays to shield tunnelling", Canadian Geotechnical Journal, Vol. 45, pp. 14-28.

(Meguid, M.A., Saada, O., Nunes, M. and Mattar, J.) (2008) "Physical modelling of shallow tunnels in soft ground:A review", Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology, Vol. 23, pp. 185-198.

(Kamel, S. and Meguid, M.A.) (2008) "An experimental study of soil erosion around leaking pipes, 2008 No-Dig Conference", North American Society of Trenchless Technology, Texas, USA, 10 pp.

(Dang, H.K. and Meguid, M.A.) (2008) "Investigating the properties of specimens generated using dynamic packing algorithms in Discrete Element Method", 61st Canadian Geotechnical Conference, Edmonton, Alberta, CD, 6 pp.

(Dang, H.K. and Meguid, M.A.) (2008) "3D simulation of the trap door problem using the discrete element method", 61st Canadian Geotechnical Conference, Edmonton, Alberta, CD, 6 pp.

(Meguid, M.A. and Dang, H.K.) (2008) "A numerical framework for soft ground tunnelling applications", 61st Canadian Geotechnical Conference, Edmonton, Alberta, CD, 6 pp.

 

MIRANDA-MORENO, L.F. (Lee-Gosselin, M. and Miranda-Moreno, L.) (2008) "A week in the life of a baby boomers:How do they see the spatial-temporal organization of their activities and travel?" Transportation, 35(5), pp. 629-653.

(Lee-Gosselin, M. and Miranda-Moreno, L.) (2008) "What is different about spontaneous urban activities that were planned with the aid of ICTs? Some early evidence from Quebec, Canada?" The Third Specialist Meeting on ICT, Everyday Life and Urban Change, March 16-19, Coombe Lodge, Bristol, United Kingdom.

 

MITCHELL, D. (Bentur, A. and Mitchell, D.) (2008) "Materials performance lessons", Journal of Cement and Concrete Research, Vol. 38, No. 2, February, pp. 259-272.

(Lee, J.H., Yoon, Y.S. Lee, S.H., Cook, W.D. and Mitchell, D.) (2008) "Enhancing the Performance of Slab-Column Connections", American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Structural Journal, pp. 448-457.

(Collins, M.P., Mitchell, D., and Bentz, E.C.) (2008) "Shear design of concrete structures", The Structural Engineer, Vol. 86, No. 10, pp. 32-39.

(Aoude, H., Beghiti, M. and Mitchell, D.) (2008) "Predicting the shear resistance of SFRC beams, Paper GC-623-1", Proceedings Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE) Annual General Conference, Quebec City, Quebec, June 10-13, 7 p.

 

NGUYEN, V-T-V. (Dibike, Y.B., Gachon, P., St-Hilaire, A., Ouarda, T. and Nguyen, V-T-V.) (2008) "Uncertainty analysis of statistically downscaled temperature and precipitation regimes in Northern Canada", Theoretical and Applied Climatology, Vol. 91, No. 1-4, pp. 149-170.

(Nguyen, V-T-V., Desramaut, N., and Nguyen, T.D.) (2008) "Estimation of urban design storms in consideration of GCM-based climate change scenarios", in Water and Urban Development Paradigms, J. Feyen, K. Shannon and M. Neville (Eds.), Taylor and Francis Group, London, United Kingdom, pp. 347-356.

(Nguyen, V-T-V. and Nguyen, T.D.) (2008) "Statistical downscaling of daily precipitation process for climate-related impact studies", Chapter 16, Hydrology and Hydraulics, V.P. Singh (Ed.), Water Resources Publications, 12 pp.

(Nguyen, V-T-V. and Nguyen, T.D.) (2008) "A spatial-temporal statistical downscaling approach to estimation of extreme precipitations for climate-related impact studies at a local site", Proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) World Environmental and Water Resources Congress, May 12-16, Honolulu, Hawaii, 10 pp.

(Nguyen, V-T-V., Desramaut, N. and Nguyen, T.D.) (2008) "Estimation of design storms in consideration of climate variability and change", 11th International Conference on Urban Drainage, August 31 – September 5, Edinburgh, Scotland, 11 pp.

"Developing intensity duration frequency relations in consideration of climate change", National Workshop on Climate Scenarios of Extremes for Impact and Adaptation Studies, Montreal, Quebec, May 6-8.

(Nguyen, V-T-V. and Nguyen, T.D.) (2008) "On statistical modeling of extreme rainfall processes in consideration of climate change", Fifth Asia Oceania Geosciences Society Annual Meeting, Busan, Korea, June 16-20.

(Nguyen, V-T-V. and Hussain, A.) (2008) "On stochastic modeling of daily rainfall processes: A comparative study using data from different climatic conditions", Fifth Asia Oceania Geosciences Society Annual Meeting, Busan, Korea, June 16-20.

(Nguyen, V-T-V., Hussain, A. and Nguyen, T.D.) (2008) "On stochastic modeling of daily rainfall process in consideration of climate change and variability", Forty-second Congress of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanic Society, Kelowna, British Columbia, May 26-29.

(Nguyen, T.D. and Nguyen, V-T-V.) (2008) "A spatial-temporal downscaling approach to the construction of intensity-duration-frequency relations in consideration of climate change", Forty-second Congress of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanic Society, Kelowna, British Columbia, May 26-29.

(Harding, A., Gachon, P. and Nguyen, V-T-V.) (2008) "The development of spatially coherent multisite, multivariate statistical downscaling models for Canada", Forty-second Congress of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanic Society, Kelowna, British Columbia, May 26-29.

 

NICELL, J.A. (Trinh Tan, F., Cooper, D., Maric, M. and Nicell, J.A.) (2008) "Biodegradation of a synthetic c-polyester by aerobic mesophilic microorganisms", Polymer Degradation & Stability, 93, 1479-1485.

(Barnabé, S., Beauchesne, I., Cooper D.G. and Nicell, J.A.) (2008) "Plasticizers and related toxic degradation products in wastewater sludges", Water Science & Technology, 57:3, 367-374.

(Kurniawati, S. and Nicell, J.A.) (2008) "Characterization of trametes versicolor laccase for the oxidation of aqueous phenol", Bioresource Technology, 99, 7825-7834.

(Li, H.M. and Nicell, J.A.) (2008) "Biocatalytic oxidation of bisphenol A in a reverse micelle system using horseradish peroxidase", Bioresource Technology, 99, 4428-4437.

(Barnabé, S., Beauchesne, I., Cooper, D.G. and Nicell, J.A.) (2008) "Plasticizers and their degradation products in the process streams of a large urban physicochemical sewage treatment plant", Water Research, 42, 153-162.

(Firlotte, N., Cooper, D.G., Maric, M., and Nicell, J.A.) (2008) "Methods for evaluating the performance of "green" plasticizers", 58th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, Ottawa, Ontario, October 19-22.

(Kermanshahi pour, A., Cooper, D.G., Maric, M., and Nicell, J.A.) (2008) "Effect of alkyl branches and ether functions on the biodegradability of dibenzoate plasticizers and their metabolites", 58th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, Ottawa, Ontario, October 19-22.

(Kermanshahi pour, A., Cooper, D.G., Maric, M., and Nicell, J.A.) (2008) "Does the ether function contribute to the persistence of dibenzoate plasticizer’s metabolites?" 10th Ontario-Quebec Biotechnology Meeting, Ottawa, Ontario.

(Khan, U. and Nicell, J.A.) (2008) "Prediction of micropollutant concentrations along the wastewater collection and treatment train", 58th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, Ottawa, Ontario, October 19-22.

 

ROGERS, C.A. (Al-Kharat, M. and Rogers, C.A.) (2008) "Inelastic performance of screw connected cold-formed steel strap braced walls", Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol. 35, No. 1, 11-26.

(Mastrogiuseppe, S., Rogers, C.A., Nedisan, C.D. and Tremblay, R.) (2008) "Influence of non-structural components on roof diaphragm stiffness and fundamental periods of single-storey steel buildings", Journal of Constructional Steel Research, Vol. 64, No. 2, 214-227.

(Valchev, K., Comeau, G., Balh, N. and Rogers, C.A.) (2008) "Inelastic performance and design of CFS walls braces with straps having reduced width fuses", 19th International Specialty Conference on Cold-Formed Steel Structures, St. Louis, Missouri, 391-408.

(Tremblay, R., Nedisan, C.D., Lamarche, C.P. and Rogers, C.A.) (2008) "Periods of vibration of a low-rise building with a flexible steel roof deck diaphragm", 5th International Conference on Thin-Walled Structures, Brisbane, Australia, 615-622.

(Comeau, G., Velchev, K., Balh, N. and Rogers, C.A.) (2008) "Inelastic performance of weld-connected cold-formed steel strap braced walls", 5th International Conference on Coupled Instabilities in Metal Structures, v. 2: Gregory J. Hancock Symposium, Sydney, Australia, 131-142.

 

SELVADURAI, A.P.S. "Mechanics of fragmentable geomaterials", Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational and Experimental Engineering Science (ICCES 08), (Murakawa, H., Okada, H., Dowling, J.P., Lee, S.W., Tang, D. And Tewary, V., Eds.) Honolulu, Hawaii, pp. 1037-1041.

"Normal stress-induced permeability reduction of a fracture in a large granite cylinder", GeoProc 2008, Third International Conference on Coupled T-H-M-C Processes in Geo-Systems, (Shao, J.F. and Burlion, N., Eds.) Wiley, United Kingdon, pp. 211-218.

"Analysis of pulse tests in the light of residual hydraulic potentials", GeoProc 2008, Third International Conference on Coupled T-H-M-C Processes in Geo-Systems, (Shao, J.F. and Burlion, N., Eds.) Wiley, United Kingdom, pp. 25-266.

(Schmidt, H., Selvadurai, A.P.S. and Wilner, K.) (2008) "Separation at a pre-compressed frictionless interface due to asymmetric localized loads", Eighth World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM 8) ISBN, 978-84-96736-55-9.

(Turin, S., Hanss, M. and Selvadurai, A.P.S.) (2008) "An approach to uncertainty analysis of landslide problems", Proceedings of the Leuven Symposium on Applied Mechanics in Engineering (LSAME 08), Leuven, Belgium, pp. 1-9.

(Selvadurai, A.P.S. and Ghiabi, H.) (2008) "Continuum poro-elasto-plasticity of geomaterials composites", Proceedings of the Third Canadian Conference on Non-Linear Solid Mechanics, Toronto, Ontario, (E. Croitoro, Ed.), pp. 335-344.

"Analytical and computational results for the interpretation of cable-jacking tests on rock masses", Proceedings of the 12th International Conference of the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics, (Singh, D.N., Eds.), pp. 92-100.

"Fragmentation of ice during contact", Advances in Contact Mechanics:A Tribute to J.J. Kalker (Scarpas. T., Vuik, K. and Y. Sutijiadi, Eds) TU Delft, The Netherlands, pp. 69-70.

(Selvadurai, A.P.S., Kringos, N. and Scarpas, A.) (2008) "Bond stress development at a surface coating-elastic substrate interface due to the action of a nucleus of thermoelastic strain", Surface and Coatings Technology, Vol. 202, pp. 1704-1711.

(Selvadurai, A.P.S. and Glowacki, A.) (2008) "Evolution of permeability hysteresis of Indiana Limestone during isotropic compression", Ground Water, Vol. 46, pp. 113-119.

(Dong, W. and Selvadurai, A.P.S.) (2008) "A Taylor-Galerkin approach for modeling a spherically symmetric advective-dispersive transport problem", Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering, Vol. 24, pp. 49-63.

(Selvadurai, A.P.S. and Ghiabi, H.) (2008) "Consolidation of a soft clay composite: Experimental results and computational estimates", Computer Modeling in Engineering and Science, Vol. 23, pp. 53-73.

(Kringos, N., Scarpas, T., Casbergen, C. and Selvadurai, A.P.S.) (2008) "Modelling of combined physical-mechanical moisture-induced damage in asphaltic pavements, Part 1, Governing processes and formulations", International Journal of Pavement Engineering, Vol. 9, pp. 115-128.

(Edwards, M.P., Hill, J.M. and Selvadurai, A.P.S.) (2008) "Lie group symmetry analysis of transport in porous media with variable transmissivity", Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, Vol. 341, pp. 906-921.

(Selvadurai, A.P.S. and Yu, Q.) (2008) "Mechanics of polymeric membranes subjected to chemical exposure", International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, Vol. 43, pp. 264-276.

(Selvadurai, A.P.S., Scarpas, T. and Kringos, N.) (2008) "A winkler ligament contact between a rigid disc and an elastic halfspace", Journal of Mechanics of Materials and Structures, Vol. 3, pp. 1875-1883.

"On non-classical analytical solutions for advective transport problems", Water Resources Research, Vol. 44, doi:1029/2007WR006312.

(Kringos, N., Scarpas, T. and Selvadurai, A.P.S.) (2008) "Simulation of mastic erosion from open-graded asphalt mixes using a hybrid lagrangian-eulerian finite element approach", Computer Modeling in Engineering and Science, Vol. 28, pp. 147-160.

 

SHAO, Y. (Chang, J., Wang, S. and Shao, Y.) (2008) "Manufacture of electric arc furnace slag aggregate and concrete through carbonation curing", Journal of Chinese Ceramic Society, 35(9), pp. 1264-1269.

(Wu, Z., and Shao, Y.) (2008) "Wet-bond of concrete to FRP formwork using epoxy adhesive", American Concrete Institute (ACI) Symposium Publication, FRP stay-in-place forms for concrete structures, CD-ROM.

(Shao, Y. and Bdeir, Z.) (2008) "Deflection based design of composite sheet pile walls", Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Advanced Composite Materials in Bridges and Structures, Winnipeg, Manitoba, CD-ROM.

(Shao, Y. and Logan, C.) (2008) "Characterization of concrete exposed to carbonation at different ages", Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Advances in Concrete and Structures, Changsha, China, CD-ROM.

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