Les fibres naturelles (FN) sont utilisées comme granulat et comme renfort dans les bétons. Cependant, leur emploi présente plusieurs inconvénients : (1) variabilité des propriétés et variation de la qualité du béton, (2) lacunes des méthodes de mélange et (3) outils de prédiction des performances mécaniques inadéquates. Ce projet en partenariat avec l’entreprise DUCHANVRE comporte […]

La production de pièces techniques en caoutchouc met en oeuvre un procédé de transformation irréversible, la vulcanisation, qui permet d’attribuer à la pièce des propriétes mécaniques qui doivent respecter des valeurs de spécifications précises. Un non-respect des critères de qualité engendre un gaspillage, car en raison du caractère difficilement recyclable du caoutchouc, la matière des […]

Canada’s early-designed public buildings (i.e., schools and hospitals) are at significant risk of seismic damage and collapse. The installation of seismic protective devices, such as friction devices designed and manufactured by Quaketek Inc, offers a viable strategy to mitigate the seismic risk of building structures. However, the practical use of friction devices has commonly relied […]

The products manufactured at GE Bromont go through a series of processes that produce the specific characteristics of each product according to required specifications. The number of these characteristics is very large, and several characteristics are dependent on the others. This reality makes the use of traditional statistical techniques for quality control of products laborious […]

Dans un contexte de relance économique, plusieurs acteurs suggèrent que le gouvernement et l’État ont un rôle à jouer, notamment dans l’octroi de contrats publics. Selon certaines théories, les effets de débordements liés à la réalisation des travaux pourraient avoir des effets stimulants sur la création d’entreprises locales, mais également sur le renforcement de la […]

The intern’s project comprises an internship at a consulting firm in Canada. They will conduct research into mechanical systems, evaluating the best methods and materials that are to be implemented in the construction of a hospital. Through this project, the intern will increase their professional network, and the level of experience they have in the […]

Le projet proposé consiste à caractériser la réponse statique ainsi que la réponse dynamique d’un nouveau dispositif de micro-positionnement de haute précision compliant en verre. Il s’agit d’un nouveau type de platine de micro-positionnement permettant la translation de la partie centrale sur deux axes indépendants, soient X et Y à l’aide d’actionneurs piézoélectriques. La nouveauté […]

This project will develop an artificial intelligence-based data fusion framework for activity duration forecasting in project scheduling. Task duration estimation is an important component for project scheduling and optimization for many industries. This problem is significantly more acute for projects with a very large number of activities such as ship building and refit or when […]

Today’s customer desire more and more personalized products and often want to get involved in the design of them. The manufacturing of personalized furniture is a good example of this trend. NavCamper is a SME in Quebec, producing personalized camping cars. The production of personalized cabinets for these camping cars is currently very labour intensive. […]

Collaborative robots, also known as Cobots, are devices that will help farmers in their farming duties to have better control over their crops, increase harvesting efficiency, and solve labor shortage issues in rural areas. These robots can operate near humans and complete a wide variety of tasks including harvesting crops, precise pesticide spraying and crop […]

Retrofitting the existing building stock is a key field of action for architecture to move towards a sustainable future. This research proposal focuses on developing data collection digital workflows and communication protocols between different design and machine software for timber fabrication in an onsite / near-site condition enabled by a Factory in a Box (FIAB). […]

TRIUMF has begun the TRISR project constructing a experimental facility which is called low energy ion storage ring. The storage ring will provide unique possibilities for investigations of nuclear reactions when it is connected to a radioactive ion beam facility ISAC-I of TRIUMF. A neutron generator will be added to the facility to provide a […]