Glass fiber reinforced concrete (GFRC) panels are a lightweight cladding panels primarily used as fascia panels in building structures. Concrete when reinforced with fibers is often presented as an environmental improvement on typical concrete. In the wake of the rapidly emerging climate change emergency and to help improve resiliency in our residential buildings, the National […]

Renewable energy resources such as wind and solar power are often tied to the grid using dc-ac power-electronic converters. Unlike large power plants, these sources of energy have a dispersed nature, i.e., they are comprised on many small units that are operated in parallel to form a large power plant. This project deals with investigating […]

A. Overall Project Objective Recent research at the University of Calgary has focused on shear walls and on evaluating the influence of various parameters on in-plane shear capacity. The reason for this is that, for example, while it is recognized by most researchers that compression on walls increases the shear strength of masonry, the quantification […]

Computer modeling and experimental testing will be conducted to examine and verify the reliability of ultrasonic guided wave techniques for detecting wall thinning and cracking in feeder pipes in CANDU nuclear reactors. Bracelets holding 8 and 16 ultrasonic transducers will be developed. These bracelets are attached to the pipe to produce guided waves which propagate […]