Publications 2009

Academic staff

Boyd, A.J. | Chouinard, L.E. | Chu, V.H. | Frigon, D. | Gaskin, S.J. | 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. (Dham, M., Birgisson, B. and Boyd, A.J.) (2009) "The determination of bound water in waste phosphatic clay", Research Letters in Materials Science, Vol. 2009, Article 854701, 5 pp.

(Boyd, A.J., Ishee, C.A. and Ferraro, C.C.) (2009) "Dimensional stability and deformation – Chapter 14", The Institution of Civil Engineers Manual of Construction Materials, Thomas Telford Publishing, London, England, pp 145-151.

(Boyd, A.J., Banthia, N. and Mindess, S.) (2009) "Retrofit of shear strength deficient RC beams with sprayed CFRP – Keynote Paper", 9th International Symposium on Brittle Matrix Composites, Warsaw, Poland, pp 1-9.

 

CHOUINARD, L.E. (Rosset, P. and Chouinard, L.E.) (2009) "Characterization of site effects in Montreal, Canada", Natural Hazards, Vol..48, p. 295-308.

(Motazedian, D., Hunter, J.A., Pugin, A., Khaheshi Banab, K., Crow, H. Belvaux, M. Chouinard, L.E., Tremblay, M., Perret, D. and Rosset, P.) (2009) "Seismic microzonation of Montreal and Ottawa, Canada, 10th Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Toronto, Ontario, July 25-29.

(Saeed, S. and Chouinard, L.E.) (2009) "System identification using unsynchronized ambient vibration measurement using multiple data acquisition systems", Asian-Pacific Network of Centers for Earthquake. Engineering Research (ANCER) Workshop, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, August 13-14.

(Saeed, S. and Chouinard, L.E.) (2009) "On synchronization of ambient vibrations data from tests on large buildings obtained by multiple data acquisition systems", 10th Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Toronto, Ontario, July 25-29.

(Chouinard, L.E., Côté, P. and Larivière, R.) (2009) "Analysis of irreversible displacements of Daniel-Johnson Dam", 2nd International Conférence on Long Term Behaviour of Dams, Graz, Austria, October 12-13, 8 pages.

(Chouinard, L.E. and Roy, V.) (2009) "Performance of statistical models for analyzing the long term behaviour of dams", 2nd International Conférence on Long Term Behaviour of Dams, Graz, Austria, October 12-13, 8 pages.

(Caron, D. and Chouinard, L.E.) (2009) "Indices de condition – Évacuateurs, Une method pour determiner l’état des évacuateurs", Colloque SHF-CFBR Dimensionnement et Fonctionnement des Évacuateurs de crues, Paris, France, 9 pages.

 

CHU, V.H. (Tan, L.W. and Chu, V.H.) (2009) "Lauber and Hager’s dam-break wave data for numerical model validation", Journal of Hydro-Environment Research, Vol. 47(4), pp. 524-528.

(Tan, L.W. and Chu, V.H.) (2009) "Simulation of wave fonts on dry bed using Lagrangian blocks", J. Engineering and computational Mechanics, Vol. 162(EM2), pp. 57-66.

(Bouhairie, S. and Chu, V.H.) (2009) "Heat wake by deferred corrected ULTRA, Computational Fluid Dynamics 2006, H. Deconinck and E. Dicks Eds., ISBN 978-3-540-92778-5, pp. 291-296.

(Chu, V.H., Altai, W. and Pinilla, C.E.) (2009) "Buoyancy effect on turbulence using blocks", Computational Fluid Dynamics 2006, H. Deconinck and E. Dicks Eds., ISBN 978-3-540-92778-5, pp. 427-432.

(Tan, L.W., Pinilla, C.E. and Chu, V.H.) (2009) "Simulation of water advancing over dry bed using Lagrangian blocks on Eulerian mesh", Computational Fluid Dynamics 2008, H. Choi, H.G. Choi, J.Y. Yoo eds., Springer, ISBN 978-3-642-01272-3, pp. 579-584.

(Pinilla, C.E., Bouhairie, S. and Chu, V.H.) (2009) "Frictional and radiation damping on shear instability", Computational Fluid Dynamics 2008, H. Choi, H.G. Choi, J.Y. Yoo eds., Springer, ISBN 978-3-642-01272-3, pp. 341-348.

(Tan, L.W. and Chu, V.H.) (2009) "Block simulation of wave overtopping", Proceedings of the 33rd Congress of International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research "IAHR", ISBN 978-90-78046-08-0, August 9-14, Vancouver, British Columbia, 8 pp. in CD-ROM.

(Pinilla, C.E., Bouhairie, S., Tan, L.W. and Chu, V.H.) (2009) "Minimal intervention strategy to turbulence simulations using the shallow-water equations", Proceedings of the 33rd Congress of International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR), ISBN 978-90-78046-08-0, August 9-14, Vancouver, British Columbia, 8 pp. in CD-ROM.

(Tan, L.W. and Chu, V.H.) (2009) "The role of wave radiation on instability of coastal current", Proceedings of the 33rd Congress of IAHR, ISBN 978-90-78046-08-0, August 9-14, Vancouver, British Columbia, 8 pp. in CD-ROM.

(Tan, L.W. and Chu, V.H.) (2009) "Wave run-up and overtopping simulations using Lagrangian blocks", Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, ISBN 978-0-7918-3844-0, May 31–June 5, Honolulu, Hawaii, ASME paper OMAE2009-79395, 8 pp.

(Pinilla, C.E. and Chu, V.H.) (2009) "Wave radiation and shear instability in rotating stratified flow", Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, ISBN 978-0-7918-3844-0, May 31–June 5, Honolulu, Hawaii, ASME paper OMAE2009-79416, 8 pp.

 

FRIGON, D. (Lavallée, B., Frigon, D., Lessard, P., Vanrolleghem, P.A., Yuan, Z. and van Loosdrecht, M.C.M.) (2009) "Modelling using rRNA-structured biomass models", Water Science and Technology, 59(4):661-671.

 

GASKIN, S.J. (Folifac, F., Lifongo, L., Nkeng, G. and Gaskin, S.J.) (2009) "Municipal drinking water source protection capacity in low income countries: case of Buea Municipality - Cameroon", International Journal of Ecology and the Natural Environment, 1(4):73-84.

(Carrera-Hernandez, J.J. and Gaskin, S.J.) (2009) "Water management in the Basin of Mexico:current state and alternative scenarios", Hydrogeology Journal, 17:1483-1494. (doi:10.1007/210040-009-0442-2).

(Suerich-Gulick, F., Gaskin, S.J., Villeneuve, M. and Parkinson, E.) (2009) "Predicting vortex stretching at hydropower intakes", 33rd International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR) Congress:Water engineering for a sustainable environment, Vancouver, British Columbia, August 9-14, pp. 4006-4013.

(Khorsandi, B., Gaskin, S.J. and Mydlarski, L.) (2009) "A laboratory study of noise in turbulence measurements using acoustic Doppler velocimetry", 33rd International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR) Congress:Water engineering for a sustainable environment, Vancouver, British Columbia, August 9-14, pp. 3551-3557.

(Moradi-Larmaei, M., Mahdi, T. and Gaskin, S.J.) (2009) "Vegetation and shallow water hydraulics", 33rd International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR) Congress:Water engineering for a sustainable environment,Vancouver, British Columbia, August 9-14, pp. 4417-4424.

(Biron, P., Carré, D. and Gaskin, S.J.) (2009) "Hydraulics of stream deflectors used in fish habitat restoration schemes, River Basin Management V", Wessex Institute of Technology (WIT) Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, 124:305-314, doi:10.2495/RM090281.

 

GHOSHAL, S. (Ghoshal, S. and Zeman, F.) (2009) "Carbon storage and sequestration for the cement and concrete industry, Chapter 15", Developments and Innovation in Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Technologies, Editor, Mercedes Maroto-Valer, Woodhead Publishers.

 

McCLURE, G. (Doudak, G., McClure, G., Smith, I. and Stathopoulos, T.) (2009) "Comparison of field and wind tunnel pressure coefficients for a light-frame industrial building", American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Journal of Structural Engineering, 135(10)1301-1304.

(Ghafari Oskoei, S.A. and McClure, G.) (2009) "Simplified dynamic analysis methods for guyed telecommunication masts under seismic excitation", Proceedings of the 2009 American Society of Civil Engineers - Structural Engineering Institute (ASCE - SEI) Structures Congress, Austin, Texas, April 30-May 2, 1020-1029.

 

MEGUID, M.A. (Ahmed, M. and Meguid, M.A.) (2009) "Patents and techniques of contact pressure measurement in geotechnical engineering", Recent Patents on Engineering, Bentham Science Publishers, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 210-219.

(Nunes, M.A. and Meguid, M.A.) (2009) "A study on the effects of overlying soil strata on the stresses developing in a tunnel lining", Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology, Vol. 24, No. 6, pp. 716-722.

(Menaa, M., Meguid, M.A. and Assaf, J.G.) (2009) "On the effects of subgrade erosion on the contact pressure distribution under rigid surface structures", American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, Vol. 135, No. 10, pp. 1538-1542.

(Meguid, M.A. and Mattar, J.) (2009) "An investigation of tunnel-soil-pile interaction in cohesive soils", American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, Vol. 135, No. 7, pp. 973-979.

(Meguid, M.A. and Dang, H.K.) (2009) "The effect of erosion voids on existing tunnel linings", Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology, Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 278-286. Ranked by Science Direct among the Top 25 Most Downloaded Articles published in the TUST Journal in 2009.

(Hussein, M. and Meguid, M.A.) (2009) "On the three-dimensional modeling of soil-geogrid interaction", 62nd Canadian Geotechnical Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, September, CD, 6 pages.

(Ahmed, M. and Meguid, M.A.) (2009) "The effect of subsurface volume loss on the bearing capacity of reinforced granular material", 62nd Canadian Geotechnical Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, September, CD, 6 pages.

(Tobar, T. and Meguid, M.A.) (2009) "Distribution of earth pressure on vertical shafts", 62nd Canadian Geotechnical Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, September, CD, 6 pages.

 

MIRANDA-MORENO, L.F. (Miranda-Moreno, L.F., Fu, L., Lord, D. and Ukkusuri, S.) (2009) "How to incorporate accident severity and vehicle occupancy into the hotspot identification process?" Journal of the Transportation Research, Records 2102, 53-60.

(Barla, P., Lamonde, B., Miranda-Moreno, L.F., and Boucher, N.) (2009) "Traveled distance, stock and fuel efficiency of private vehicles in Canada”, Transportation, 36, 389-402.

(Francisque, A., Rodriquez, M., Miranda-Moreno, L.F., Sadiq, R.) (2009) "Prioritizing monitoring locations in a water distribution network: a fuzzy risk approach", Journal of water supply:Research and technology, 58(7), pp. 488-509.

(Lee-Gosselin, M. and Miranda-Moreno, L.F.) (2009) "What is different about spontaneous urban activities that were planned with the aid of ICTs? Some early evidence from Québec, Canada", Journal of Transport Geography, 17, 104-114.

(Francisque, A., Rodriquez, M.J., Miranda-Moreno, L.F., Sadiq, R.) (2009) "Modeling of bacteria counts in a water distribution system", Water Research, 43, 1075-1987.

(Montenegro, P., Rodriquez, M.J., Miranda-Moreno, L.F., Joerin, F. and Proulx, F.) (2009) "Occurrence of citizen complaints concerning drinking water: a case study in Quebec City", Journal of Water Supply:Research and Technology, 58(4) pp. 257-266.

(Francisque, A., Rodriguez, M., Sadiq, R., Miranda-Moreno, L.F.) (2009) "Prioritizing monitoring locations in a water distribution network:a fuzzy risk approach", Journal of Water Supply:Research and Technology, 58(7) pp. 488-509.

(Miranda-Moreno, L.F. and Fu, L.) (2009) "Traffic safety study:Empirical Bayes or Full Bayes?" Transportation Statistics, edited by Brian W. Sloboda, J. Ross Publishing, Inc.

 

MITCHELL, D. (Aoude, H., Mitchell, D. and Cook, W.D.) (2009) "Behavior of columns constructed with fibers and self-consolidating concrete", American Concrete Institute (ACI) Structural Journal, Vol. 106, S34, May/June, 9 p.

(Paultre, P. and Mitchell, D.) (2009) "Background to seismic design provisions in CSAA23.3-04 for high-strength concrete", Canadian Journal Civil Engineering, Vol. 36, pp. 565-579.

(Lee, J.-H., Yoon, Y.-S., Cook, W.D. and Mitchell, D.) (2009) "Improving punching shear behavior of glass fiber-reinforced polymer reinforced slabs", American Concrete Institute (ACI) Structural Journal, Vol. 106, No, 4, July/August, pp. 427-434.

(Aoude, H., Cook, W.D. and Mitchell, D.) (2009) "Influence of fibres in improving core confinement and cover contribution in columns", Proceedings Canadian Society for Civil Engineering "CSCE" Annual General Conference, St. Johns, Newfoundland, May 27-30, Paper GC-069, 10 p.

 

NGUYEN, V-T-V. "Recent advances in statistical modelling of extreme rainfall events and floods", International Journal of Hydropower and Dams, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 65-70.

(Nguyen, V-T-V., Nguyen, T-D. and Hussain, A.) (2009) "Stochastic modelling of daily rainfall processes in the context of climate change", Proceedings of World City Water Forum, August 18-21, Incheon, Korea, pp. 2353-2360.

(Nguyen, T-D. and Nguyen, V-T-V.) (2009) "On the construction of rainfall intensity-duration-frequency curves in consideration of GCM-based climate change scenarios", Proceedings of World City Water Forum, August 18-21, Incheon, Korea, pp. 2266-2273.

(Nguyen, V-T-V., Desramaut, N. and Nguyen, T-D.) (2009) "On estimation of urban design storms in the context of climate change", Proceedings of World City Water Forum, August 18-21, Incheon, Korea, pp.2254-2261.

(Nguyen, V-T-V., Desramaut, N. and Nguyen, T.D.) (2009) "Modeling of extreme rainfall processes in urban areas in the context of climate change", International Workshop on the Impacts of Climate Change on Urban Flooding, June 24-25, Ho-Chi-Minh City, Vietnam, 11 pages.

(Nguyen, V-T-V., Desramaut, N. and Nguyen, T.D.) (2009) "Optimal rainfall temporal patterns for urban drainage design in the context of climate change", 8th International Conference on Urban Drainage Modelling, September 7-12, Tokyo, Japan, 8 pages.

(Willems, P., Ambjerg-Nielson, K. Olsson, J. and Nguyen, V-T-V.) (2009) "Climate change impact assessment on urban rainfall extremes and urban drainage: methodologies and difficulties", Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Precipitation in Urban Areas, December 10-13, St-Moritz, Switzerland, pp. 151-156.

(Artlert, K., Chaleeraktrakoon, C. and Nguyen, V-T-V.) (2009) "Downscaling of daily rainfall processes in Khong, Chi, and Mun River Basins", 6th Annual Meeting of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society, Singapore, Asia, August 11-15.

(Nguyen, V-T-V.., Yeo, M. and Nguyen, T.D.) (2009) "Statistical downscaling of daily rainfall and temperature processes in consideration of climate change:a case study using data from Seoul Station, Korea", 6th Annual Meeting of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society, Singapore, Asia, August 11-15.

 

NICELL, J.A. (Firlotte, N., Cooper, D.G. Maric, M .and Nicell, J.A.) (2009) "Characterization of 1,5-pentanediol dibenzoate as a potential "green" plasticizer for poly(vinyl chloride)", Journal of Vinyl Additives and Technology, 15, 99-107.

(Kermanshahi pour, A., Cooper, D.G., Mamer, O.A., Maric, M. and Nicell, J.A.) (2009) "Mechanisms of biodegradation of dibenzoate plasticizers", Chemosphere, 77, 258-263.

(Kermanshahi pour, A., Cooper, D.G., Mamer, O.A., Maric, M. and Nicell, J.A.) (2009) "Metabolites from the biodegradation of 1,6-hexanediol dibenzoate, a potential green plasticizer", Rhodococcus rhodochrous, Journal of Mass Spectrometry, 44, 662-671.

(Kurniawati, S. and Nicell, J.A.) (2009) "A comprehensive kinetic model of laccasse-catalyzed oxidation of aqueous phenol", Biotechnology Progress, 25:3, 763-773.

"Approaches for assessing and regulating the impacts of odours on communities", Atmospheric Environment, 43:1, 196-206.

(Sauvageau, D., Cooper, D.G. and Nicell, J.A.) (2009) "Relative rates and mechanisms of biodegradation of diester plasticizers mediated", Rhodococcus rhodochrous, Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, 87, 499-506.

 

ROGERS, C.A. (Tremblay, R., Léger, P., Rogers, C.A., Bouaanani, N., Massicotte, B., Khaled, A., Lamarche, C-P.) (2009) "Experimental testing of large scale structural models and components using innovative shake table, dynamic, real-time hybrid simulation and multi-directional loading techniques", 3rd International Conference on Advances in Experimental Structural Engineering, San Francisco, California.

(Shrestha, K., Franquet, J., Rogers, C.A. and Tremblay, R.) (2009) "OpenSees modeling of the inelastic seismic response of steel roof deck diaphragms", 6th International Conference on the Behaviour of Steel Structures in Seismic Areas, STESSA2009, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 775-780.

 

SELVADURAI, A.P.S. (Dong, W. and Selvadurai, A.P.S.) (2009) "A combined finite and infinite element approach for modelling spherically symmetric transient subsurface flow", Computers and Geosciences, Vol. 35, pp. 438-445.

"On the surface displacement of an isotropic elastic halfspace containing an inextensible membrane", Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids, Vol. 14, pp. 123-134.

(Ghiabi, H. and Selvadurai, A.P.S.) (2009) "The time-dependent mechanical behaviour of a granular medium used in laboratory investigations", International Journal of Geomechanics, Vol. 9, pp. 1-8.

"Boussinesq indentation of an isotropic elastic halfspace reinforced with an inextensible membrane", International Journal of Engineering Science, Vol. 47, pp. 1339-1345.

"Influence of residual hydraulic gradients on decay curves for one-dimensional hydraulic pulse tests", Geophysical Journal International, Vol. 177, pp. 1357-1365.

"Heave of a surficial rock layer due to pressures generated by injected fluids", Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 36, doi:1029/2009GL038187.

"Fragmentation of ice sheets during impact", Computer Modeling in Engineering and Science, Vol. 52, No. 3, pp. 259-277.

(Turrin, S., Hanss, M. and Selvadurai, A.P.S.) (2009) "An approach to uncertainty analysis of rock fall simulation", Computer Modeling in Engineering and Science, Vol. 52, No. 3, pp. 237-258.

"Mechanics of an embedded caprock layer during pressurization of a CO2 reservoir", Proceedings of ComGeo 09:Computational Geomechanics 1, (S. Pietruszczak, G.N. Pande, C. Tamagnini and R. Wan, Eds.), International Centre for Computer Engineering, pp. 466-475.

(Selvadurai, A.P.S. and Suvorov, A.P.) (2009) "Boundary heating of a fluid-saturated geomaterial", Proceedings of ComGeo 09:Computational Geomechanics 1, (S. Pietruszczak, G.N. Pande, C. Tamagnini and R. Wan, Eds.), International Centre for Computer Engineering, pp. 412-421.

(Shi, M.Q. and Selvadurai, A.P.S.) (2009) "Mechanical behaviour of natural rubber", Proceedings of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering "CSCE" 2009 Annual General Conference, (L. Lye, Ed.), St. John’s, Newfoundland, pp. GC-130:1-6.

(Selvadurai, P.A. and Selvadurai, A.P.S.) (2009) "On the surface permeability of Indiana Limestone", Proceedings of the 3rd CANUS Rock Mechanics Symposium, May, (Ed: M. Diederichs and G. Grasselli), Toronto, Ontario, Paper 4118:1-9.

(Mattar, P. and Selvadurai, A.P.S.) (2009) "Radial flow testing of Indiana Limestone", Proceedings of the 3rd CANUS Rock Mechanics Symposium, May, (Ed: M. Diederichs and G. Grasselli), Toronto, Ontario, Paper 4119: 1-7.

(Suvorov, A.P. and Selvadurai, A.P.S.) (2009) "THM Processes in a fluid-saturated poroelastic geomaterial:comparison of analytical results and computational estimates", Proceedings of the 3rd CANUS Rock Mechanics Symposium, (Ed: M. Diederichs and G. Grasselli), May, Toronto, Ontario, Paper 4120: 1-10.

"Stress intensity factors for an external circular crack with fibre-bridging", Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Composite Structures, (A.J.M. Ferreira, Ed.), FEUP, Porto, Portugal, pp. 27: 1-2.

"Flaw-bridging in fibre-reinforced materials:Implications for fracture mechanics (Plenary Lecture)", Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Fracture, Ottawa, Ontario, (R. Bell, Ed.), Paper 1496: 1-16.

 

SHAO, Y. (Monkman, S., Shao, Y., and Shi, C.) (2009) "Carbonated label slag fines for carbon uptake and sand substitute", Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 21(11), 657-665.

(Shao, Y., Monkman, S. and Tran, S.) (2009) "Concrete:a potential CO2 sink", Proceedings of fib Symposium on Concrete, 21st Century Hero, June, London, England, CD-ROM.

(Shao, Y., Li, L. Wu, Z. and Masmoudi, R.) (2009) "Durability of adhesive bond between FRP laminate and fresh concrete", 9th International Symposium on Fiber Reinforced Polymer Reinforcement for Concrete Structures (FRPRCS-9), Sydney, Australia, July.

(Mohamed, H., Zefeafy, H.E., Masmoudi, R. and Shao, Y.) (2009) "Experimental versus guideline values for load capacity of the concrete columns confined by FRP tubes", 9th International Symposium on Fiber Reinforced Polymer Reinforcement for Concrete Structures "FRPRCS-9", Sydney, Australia, July.

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