La réhabilitation des sites contaminés est l’un des défis stratégiques en vue d’une urbanisation durable. Toutefois, plusieurs obstacles freinent leur réaménagement, tout particulièrement l’incertitude liée à leur réhabilitation. Bien que le contrôle de cette incertitude représente un facteur clé facilitant le réaménagement des sites contaminés, il est pourtant peu étudié et maîtrisé, voire inexistant dans […]

La première partie de ce projet est d’évaluer la télédétection par laser ou LIDAR (« light detection and ranging ») en tant qu’outil pour cartographier les routes. La deuxième partie consiste à transposer les données acquises lors de la cartographie dans une interface graphique, telle que Google Earth, par exemple. À l’heure actuelle, les informations […]

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 […]

Environmental aging is responsible for many industrial failures. Using a protective coating is one of the most common and also efficient methods to protect material surfaces against environmental attack, and consequently extend their life. For modern coatings used for industrial applications, besides high chemical stability and good adhesion, new functionalities such electrical conductivity or anti-static […]

WSP – Canada a été mandaté par le Millenium Challenge Corporation (MCC) pour offrir ses services d’ingénierie très spécialisés dans le cadre d’un don à la Côte d’Ivoire de l’ordre de 500 millions de dollars US, pour plusieurs projets d’infrastructures dont des projets routiers. En effet, la route constitue un vecteur de développement économique très […]

In this project, we will develop and evaluate an autonomous, unmanned aerial photogrammetry system for metric inspection of hard-to-reach vertical infrastructures, such as telecommunication towers and high-rise buildings. Metric inspection means identifying and measuring the facts that may have an impact on health conditions of assets, such as changes in tower alignment or deformations of […]

Au Québec, malgré les investissements massifs récents pour maintenir le réseau routier dans un état acceptable, nous faisons face à des conditions climatiques rigoureuses qui endommagent plus rapidement le réseau routier. En période hivernale, des interventions palliatives d’urgence sont nécessaires afin d’assurer la sécurité des usagers. Dans le but préserver « les actifs » de […]

Blending carbon fillers with thermoplastic materials can lead to a significant improvement of the resulting electrical, mechanical, thermal, and gas barrier properties compared with the unfilled polymer. Graphene, the name given to a material consisting of two-dimension layers of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice, has extraordinary properties which make possible to produce a […]

Precast concrete sandwich panels are commonly used as architectural or structural walls. A typical concrete panel is made of two normal strength concrete wythes and a layer of a rigid insulation sandwiched in between. The purpose of this research is to design and experimentally validate a new generation of precast sandwich panels that are much […]

Silica is a known lung carcinogen and causes silicosis, an irreversible fibrotic lung disease. RCS is a major problem in the construction sector because of the high content of silica in construction materials. New tools are needed to help the construction industry in recognition, evaluation and control of RCS. The intern will develop an on-line […]

The structural performance of skyscrapers subjected to natural hazards such as strong winds and earthquakes has significant effects on the resilience of a city because of the recent boom in the construction of skyscrapers around the world. However, resilience is currently not explicitly considered in the design of tall buildings. Studies show that modern tall […]

The structural performance of skyscrapers subjected to natural hazards such as strong winds and earthquakes has significant effects on the resilience of a city because of the recent boom in the construction of skyscrapers around the world. However, resilience is currently not explicitly considered in the design of tall buildings. Studies show that modern tall […]