• Addressing technical barriers for reliable, safe removal of fluoride from drinking water using minimally processed bauxite ores 

  Buckley⁠, Heather L.; Molla⁠c, Nusrat J.; Cherukumilli⁠, Katya; Boden, Kathryn S.; Gadgil, Ashok J. (Development Engineering, 2018)

  Throughout the developing world, over 200 million people drink groundwater containing fluoride concentrations surpassing the World Health Organization's maximum recommended contaminant level (WHO-MCL) of 1.5 mg F−/L, ...
• Using Bayesian deep learning approaches for uncertainty-aware building energy surrogate models 

  Westermann, Paul; Evins, Ralph (Energy and AI, 2021)

  Fast machine learning-based surrogate models are trained to emulate slow, high-fidelity engineering simulation models to accelerate engineering design tasks. This introduces uncertainty as the surrogate is only an approximation ...
• Novel flexible buffering architectures for 3D-NoCs 

  Said, Mostafa; Sarihi, Amin; Patooghy, Ahmad; El-Mohandes, Awny M.; Badawy, Abdel-Hameed A.; Gebali, Fayez (Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems, 2021)

  In the conventional router architecture of Network-on-Chips (NoCs), each input port employs a set of dedicated flit buffers to store incoming flits. This mechanism unevenly distributes flits among router buffers, which in ...
• Renewable Additives that Improve Water Resistance of Cellulose Composite Materials 

  Buckley, Heather L.; Touchberry, Caitlin H.; McKinley, Jonathan P.; Mathe, Zachary S.; Muradyan, Hurik; Ling, Hannah; Fadadu, Raj P.; Mulvihill, Martin J.; Amrose, Susan E. (Journal of Renewable Materials, 2016)

  Waste cardboard is an underutilized resource that can be redirected for the creation of safer and higher quality building materials for low-income housing in the developing world, as well as to produce better materials for ...
• Urbanization under a Changing Climate-Impacts on Hydrology 

  Valeo, Caterina; He, Jianxun; Kasiviswanathan, Kasiapillai S. (Water, 2021)
• On the Design of Aeroelastically Scaled Models of High Aspect-Ratio Wings 

  Afonso, Frederico; Coelho, Mónica; Vale, José; Lau, Fernando; Suleman, Afzal (Aerospace, 2020)

  Recently, innovative aircraft designs were proposed to improve aerodynamic performance. Examples include high aspect ratio wings to reduce the aerodynamic induced drag to achieve lower fuel consumption. Such solution ...
• Real-Time Estimation of Disinfection By-Products through Differential UV Absorbance 

  Stéphanie, Guilherme; Caetano, Dorea (Water, 2020)

  E orts to control of unwanted disinfection by-products (DBPs) can be hindered by the relatively low-frequency data that is generated from DBP monitoring for regulatory purposes. Di erential UV absorbance (DUVA) has the ...
• A Relay Selection Protocol for UAV-Assisted VANETs 

  He, Yixin; Zhai, Daosen; Wang, Dawei; Tang, Xiao; Zhang, Ruonan (Applied Sciences, 2020)

  In this paper, we investigate the relay selection problem for the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs). For the considered network, we first model and analyze the link quality of service ...
• A Velocity Meter for Quantifying Advection Velocity Vectors in Large Water Bodies 

  Allafchi, Farzam; Valeo, Caterina; Chu, Angus; He, Jianxun; Lee, Waltfred; Oshkai, Peter; Neumann, Norman (Sensors, 2020)

  A velocity meter was designed and built in order to meet market needs for an affordable instrument that measures the range of velocity magnitudes and direction experienced in medium- to large-sized water bodies. The velocity ...
• Assessing the Molecular Specificity and Orientation Sensitivity of Infrared, Raman, and Vibrational Sum-Frequency Spectra 

  Chen, Fei; Gozdzialski, Lea; Hung, Kuo-Kai; Stege, Ulrike; Hore, Dennis K. (Symmetry, 2021)

  Linear programming was used to assess the ability of polarized infrared absorption, Raman scattering, and visible–infrared sum-frequency generation to correctly identify the composition of a mixture of molecules adsorbed ...
• The Relative Contribution of Solutal Marangoni Convection to Thermal Marangoni Flow Instabilities in a Liquid Bridge of Smaller Aspect Ratios under Zero Gravity 

  Mendis, Radeesha Laknath Agampodi; Sekimoto, Atsushi; Okano, Yasunori; Minakuchi, Hisashi; Dost, Sadik (Crystals, 2021)

  The effect of solutal Marangoni convection on flow instabilities in the presence of thermal Marangoni convection in a Si-Ge liquid bridge with different aspect ratios As has been investigated by three-dimensional (3D) ...
• Corrosion Evaluation of Geopolymer Concrete Made with Fly Ash and Bottom Ash 

  Morla, Priyanka; Gupta, Rishi; Azarsa, Peiman; Sharma, Ashutosh (Sustainability, 2021)

  Environmental pollution caused by CO2 releasing from the production of cement is a great challenge for the construction industry and has triggered exploration into more sustainable alternatives. Geopolymer Concrete (GPC) ...
• Word-serial unified and scalable semi-systolic processor for field multiplication and squaring 

  Ibrahim, Atef (Alexandria Engineering Journal, 2021)

  This paper exhibits a word-serial unified and scalable semi-systolic processor core for concurrently executing both multiplication and squaring operations over GF(). The processor is extracted by applying a chosen non-linear ...
• Deep Integration of Physical Humanoid Control and Crowd Navigation 

  Haworth, Brandon; Berseth, Glen; Moon, Seonghyeon; Faloutsos, Petros; Kapadia, Mubbasir (MIG ’20: Motion, Interaction and Games, 2020)

  Many multi-agent navigation approaches make use of simplified representations such as a disk. These simplifications allow for fast simulation of thousands of agents but limit the simulation accuracy and fidelity. In this ...
• What are the extent and opportunities of Sustainable Development in the Construction Industry? 

  Espindola, Suzana C N L; Froese, Thomas M. (University of Victoria, 2020-08-25)

  Since the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment held in Stockholm in 1972, sustainability has been a significant focus across a broad range of human activities. In 1983, the World Commission on Environment and ...
• Post Occupancy Evaluation in Canada: Challenges, Potential Improvements and New Frontiers 

  Tripathi, Ishan; Froese, Thomas M. (University of Victoria, 2020-08-25)

  Canada’s Build Smart strategy has a goal to build high-performance buildings by integrating occupant comfort with energy efficiency. Despite having established best practices to design high-performance buildings, there is ...
• Current State of Modern Rammed Construction: A Case Study of First Peoples House After 7 Years Exposure 

  Kailey, Allan; Gupta, Rishi (Key Engineering Materials, 2015)

  This paper presents a study on the current condition of the First Peoples House, located at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. The building houses two rammed earth walls that exemplify the use of stabilized ...
• Specimen preparation for nano-scale investigation of cementitious repair material 

  Azarsa, Pejman; Gupta, Rishi (Micron, 2018)

  Cementitious Repair Materials (CRMs) in the construction industry have been used for many decades now and has become a very important part of activities in cement world. The performance of some of these CRMs when applied ...
• Deterioration Assessment of Infrastructure Using Fuzzy Logic and Image Processing Algorithm 

  Pragalath, Haran; Seshathiri, Sankarasrinivasan; Rathod, Harsh; Esakki, Balasubramanian; Gupta, Rishi (Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities, 2018)

  The safety and serviceability of civil infrastructures have to be ensured either as part of a periodic inspection program or immediately following a given hazardous event. The use of digital imaging techniques to identify ...
• Sounding of subsurface concrete defects using frequency response of flexural vibration 

  Blaney, Sean; Gupta, Rishi (Cement and Concrete Composites, 2018)

  Standard sounding procedures such as hammer percussion and chain drag can be used to locate subsurface concrete defects, but are often subject to the individual judgement and ear of trained inspectors. However, defect depth ...

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