Additive Manufacturing (i.e. 3D printing) of metallic materials is in a state of rapid, globalized expansion. Many of the associated technologies utilize metal powders as the raw feedstock material. Canada is a significant player in this area and is now home to a number of the world’s leading metal powder producers. This project seeks to […]

Traditional surveying procedures are labor and cost intensive. Mapping features like manholes require traffic disturbance, add risk to the field crew personal and the community members. The proposed project utilize a newly developed unique LiDAR-based mapping system. The developed 3D mapping system has a substantial cost reduction compared to the commercially available, which also tend […]

In BC open pit porphyry mines, pit wall deformation rate has been closely monitored to evaluate the stability of open pits and determine proper operational response. This research aims to improve our understanding towards the deformation behaviours of pit walls considering both the slope characteristics and external influence factors. The project will collect a large […]

Acoustic comfort in all types of buildings is essential to our daily life and work. Mass timber buildings provide us the solution to construct green buildings with much less carbon footprints compared with concrete and steel buildings. This project will investigate the sound insulation performance of an innovative mass timber floor system through experimental testing. […]

Today’s wind energy prediction procedures ignore the flow deceleration, also known as blockage, caused by the wind farm on the approaching wind, resulting in a power overprediction bias that pervades the entire farm. Numerical large eddy simulations (LES) of wind farms immersed in atmospheric boundary layers (ABL) will be used to study the phenomenon and […]

The special characteristics of plastics have led to them taking an essential role in society. Unfortunately, plastic consumption, production and disposal significantly impact the community. The failure of research labs to better understand the actual costs of lab plastic wastes has led to poor management of plastic materials and growing social, ecological and economic costs […]

The proposed consultancy services are going to conduct research related to the introduction of Automated Speed Enforcement (ASE) tools in a low-income African country (based on the Rwandan case study). Quantifying the effect of installing enforcement cameras on the number of damages, injuries, fatality collisions, and traffic offenses like speeding, crossing red lights, and talking […]

De nos jours, les pièces en céramique de grande précision sont généralement obtenues par moulage par injection, un procédé rentable pour la production à grande échelle, mais non viable pour la production de petites séries de pièces telles que les pièces d’horlogerie. Il est donc nécessaire de trouver de nouvelles techniques pour ce type de […]

AJ Min Inc. is developing a novel technology to recover gold from tailings material. The technology requires little energy, little to no reagents, and little to no additional water. Past testwork has indicated that this technology can recover significant amounts of gold from some tailings material, and that the recovered gold can be upgraded. This […]

Oil sands tailings, a mixture of clay, sand, water and residual oil, is a by-product from the oil sands mining and extraction process in Alberta, Canada. This mixture is hydraulically transported and stored in engineered structures built with coarse sands separated from the oil sands tailings. The dimensions of these structures depend on the storage […]

Blockchain technology is, by nature, transparent and decentralized. However, transparency can sometimes be a direct threat to the system’s decentralization when most of the profitable transactions get stolen by several high-power entities. This de-incentivizes new users from using the system and renders the whole system useless. In this project, we aim to guard decentralization against […]

In industries, chemical processes involve different plants running in parallel with different production rates under the strict constraints on available resources. Therefore, events like shutdown of one or more plants, operating plants with different production grades with flexible run length time, equipment utilization rates of different plants etc. are vital to be studied, scheduled, and […]