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Experimental investigation of regular and composite glulam columns under flexural and axial compression load

Structurlam products Ltd is a renowned Canadian company for its quality mass timber products and ability to fabricate complex design. The company developed a new generation hybrid composite glulam structural element while the performance is still unknown. The proposed research here will investigate the performance of this element under bending and compression. Both the regular glulam element and the hybrid composite glulam elements will be experimentally tested, and their performances will be mutually compared in terms of their loading capacity, deformation capacity, and failure modes. This research will also provide adequate design guidelines to structural engineers so that they can safely use this product as a beam or column element in structures. The results of this study will have a significant effect on the development and application of this hybrid glulam element.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Shahria Alam

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Structurlam Mass Timber Corporation

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Manufacturing and Construction; Construction; Forestry

Université :

University of British Columbia - Okanagan

Programme :

Accelerate

Design and Synthesis of Stimuli Responsive Viscosifying Agents for use in Fracturing Fluids

Fluids used in hydraulic fracturing are designed to open fractures and transport proppant along the fracture to ensure conservation of the fracture. Scientists in the industry use commercially available polymers that are produced at low-cost in high volumes for other industries (e.g. water treatment) without really understanding the reasons why these polymers have the desired performance for fracking. The fluids we are focused on developing are used to reduce the cost of pumping/fracking to make drilling operations economically viable. The first goal is to understand the key macromolecular characteristics of polymers that make them good candidates for friction reducers and viscosifying agents. The second goal is to develop new polymers that will have the dual performance activity of friction reducer and viscosifying agent in one product versus the common use of multiple fluids.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Silvia Mittler;Amarjeet Bassi;Paul Charpentier

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

PolyAnalytik Inc;Western University

Discipline :

Physics

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

The University of Western Ontario; Western University

Programme :

Accelerate

LiDAR derived wood quality attributes across the landscape

The proposed research will create value added models that will be used to predict wood quality attributes (wood density and fibre dimensions) on the landscape within Ontario’s boreal forest. This will be achieved by modeling stem and stand attributes from airborne laser scanner data (LiDAR). The derived stems and stand attributes (such as tree height, diameter, crown length, and stocking) will be used as predictors of inherent wood quality attributes (Fibre dimensions and wood density). This set of predicted models will benefit the partnering organization by providing them a value-added field or service for use in their forest inventory and other products.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Mathew Leitch;Ulf Runesson

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

KBM Forestry Consultants Inc

Discipline :

Earth science

Secteur :

Agriculture

Université :

Lakehead University

Programme :

Accelerate

Ecosystem Services and Food Security for the Lil’wat Nation

The Lil’wat Nation is working to foster community food security by restoring and activating Indigenous knowledge around traditional food systems. Our project examines ‘Ecosystem Services’ approaches as one way to support local food security while also protecting culturally-important environmental services. Led by a Lil’wat Food Committee, this project will engage community members in community planning and visioning exercises that evaluate what future paths for environmental stewardship are the highest priority. We will determine best practices for how farmers, ranchers, food harvesters and collectors can be compensated for protecting ecological values and services, and work to create spatial data to advise stewardship programming for lands within Lil’wat Traditional Territories.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Janette Bulkan

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Lil'wat Management Services LP

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

Management of companies and enterprises

Université :

The University of British Columbia

Programme :

Accelerate

Étude de viabilité technico-économique d’un véhicule poids lourd multi-source et multi-moteur

Ce projet de recherche est la première étape pour établir les bases du développement d’un produit qui permettra l’hybridation de véhicules lourds. On entend par hybridation l’utilisation de plusieurs formes d’énergies et plusieurs moteurs qui seront utilisées d’une manière optimale pour propulser le véhicule et réduire l’utilisation des combustibles fossiles polluants et par le fait même, les gaz à effet de serre (GES). Le projet vise donc à comprendre comment ces formes d’énergie peuvent interagir, les modéliser mathématiquement et formaliser une étude de viabilité technico économique.
L’étude technico-économique par le biais de simulation numérique constitue un outil fondamental pour la validation de tout système complexe, comme celui proposé par l’hybridation de plusieurs sources d’énergie et plusieurs moteurs, et leurs différents modes de fonctionnement. TO BE CONT’D

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Joao Pedro Fernandes Trovao

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

ENER6 Inc

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Manufacturing

Université :

Université de Sherbrooke

Programme :

Accelerate

An Integrated Mobile Communication Environment for Healthcare Professionals and Patients: Analysis, Prediction and Recommendation

Think Tank Innovations Ltd is a company active in the healthcare domain. The company is interested in expanding their current working system Sharesmart application by benefiting from advanced technology to develop an integrated environment for healthcare solutions in order to better service a wider community locally and globally. Students to be involved in this project will build a data repository to host data to be collected, cleaned, built, integrated and processed for knowledge discovery which will guide more focused decision making. A Web-based and a mobile app multilingual communication platform will be developed to help in connecting a variety of data sources and domains. The target is to maintain patient privacy by enforcing security in communication. Intelligent data processing and analysis techniques will be employed to benefit the best from data. This includes behavior analysis, trend prediction, etc.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Jon Rokne;Reda Alhajj

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Think Tank Innovations Ltd

Discipline :

Computer science

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

University of Calgary

Programme :

Accelerate

Micro-computed tomography of synthetic turf infill submitted to repeated impacts

The shock absorption properties of synthetic turf playing surfaces are mainly controlled by a granular infill composed of sand and rubber crumbs. Throughout their useful life, playing surfaces show decreasing shock absorption properties. Particle breakage, segregation, compaction and contamination with fine particles have been invoked to explain the aging of playing surfaces. In this project, CT scans of sand-rubber mixtures will be obtained after different numbers of impacts with an instrumented hammer that measures the shock absorption properties. CT scans will allow the parameters describing sand-rubber mixtures (porosity, grain size distribution, segregation) to be measured and related to shock absorption properties. CT scans will also be used to image the microstructure of real playing surfaces at the end of their useful life. After this project, the partner organization will gain insight on the causes of time-dependent infill stiffening and will be able to develop new sand-rubber recipes.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Jean-Sébastien Dubé;François Duhaime

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

FieldTurf

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Manufacturing

Université :

École de technologie supérieure

Programme :

Accelerate

Effects of various compounds on central nervous system neurons as potential therapeutics against epilepsy

Xenon has developed isoform selective blockers of the sodium channels that are expressed in CNS neurons with the intent of developing them for therapeutic use, especially epilepsy. The primary goal of this research project is to determine the activity of compounds on CNS neurons. Until now, all characterization has been done with heterologously expressed channels. Until recently, a major impediment to such studies is the heterogenous nature of CNS neurons, so that a large number of studies need to be conducted for a complete characterization. Xenon has implemented a 384 well automated voltage-clamp that is well suited to such studies. The instrument is capable of both current- and voltage-clamp studies at physiological temperature. The objective of this internship will be to use automated voltage-clamp to characterize the pharmacology of appropriate CNS neurons.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Peter Ruben

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Xenon Pharmaceuticals Inc

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

Simon Fraser University

Programme :

Accelerate

Validation of Off-gassing method and Development of Repeatability and Reproducibility of Data for the Iso-thermal Calorimetry (for ISO Standard development)

The key objective of this research is to validate the methodology for measurement of off-gassing from storage of wood pellets as well as development of data on heat generation from wood pellets. Canada is one of the main producer and exporter of wood pellets. 90% of this production belongs to British Columbia. Thus development of ISO standards on off-gassing and self-heating of wood pellets are critical. The rate of off-gassing for a particular biomass traded as commercial products is required to be declared in the MSDS for the product.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Shahab Sokhansanj

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Wood Pellet Association of Canada

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Manufacturing

Université :

The University of British Columbia

Programme :

Accelerate

Challenge for Change (C4C) Listening Projects

Building on Canada’s rich history as a participatory media producer, the project partners aim to use the democratic power and potential of media to help build a stronger, more inclusive Canada by creating opportunities for Canadians to talk and especially listen to each other: one-on-one, with friends, mothers, daughters, neighbours and strangers. In partnership with Challenge for Change (C4C), a national non-profit organization, facilitators will reach out to a number of cities, towns, communities and individuals across the country to host a series of ‘listening events’ and offer workshops on interviewing, audio recording and storytelling. With community support, they will encourage, facilitate and share these conversations in a variety of languages, formats and mediums. Conversations and deep listening are at the heart of this collaborative program evaluation. TO BE CONT’D

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Janice Neil;Susan Harada

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

C4C Canada;Carleton University

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

Other services (except public administration)

Université :

Carleton University; Toronto Metropolitan University

Programme :

Accelerate

Development of a spectroscopy light transport simulation software for absorption, fluorescence, elastic & inelastic scattering optical contrast in biological tissue

In this project a software will be developed to model the propagation of light in biological tissues and different types of events that may occur while light is interacting with the medium. The modelling is based on tracing a large number of photons launched in the tissue and applying a stochastic model for the possible outcome of the interaction of each photon and the tissue. Using this software, it will be possible to trace several chemical agents inserted in the tissue which are targeting certain cells including the cancer cells. Furthermore, such a software can be used in different spectroscopy applications including measurement, diagnosis, guidance, and quality control in several clinical and surgical applications which are of great importance and interest for the partner organization.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Frédéric Leblond

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Institut national d'optique

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

École Polytechnique de Montréal

Programme :

Accelerate

The MAID Study: Microbiome and Antibiotic-Induced Dysbiosis in Children

Antibiotics are the most widely prescribed drugs in children and its frequent use presents a real danger to its ongoing effectiveness. Probiotics are bacteria that, when administered in adequate amounts, may replenish “good” bacteria depleted by antibiotics to maintain the normal bacterial composition in the gut. The aim of this study is to determine whether taking probiotics with antibiotics protects against shifts in the bacterial composition of the gut microbiota. By collecting stool samples from children (1 year to 3 years old) on intravenous antibiotics with either a probiotic (BioK+) or a placebo, we can compare the differences in the type of bacteria present in the gut. We suspect that taking probiotics while on antibiotics may potentially protect against antibiotic-related changes in the gut microbiota. The findings will shed light on how probiotics (BioK+) produce their health benefits and if the probiotics can be detected in the fecal samples.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Bradley Johnston;Michael Surette

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Bio-K Plus International Inc

Discipline :

Physics

Secteur :

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

McMaster University

Programme :

Accelerate

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