11th CEGSS Conference 2004

11th CEGSS Conference, April 1st, 2004

On April 1st, 2004 we held the 11th Annual CEGSS Conference. We had participants from several universities. The conference covered all areas of Civil Engineering: Geotechnical, Structural, Hydraulics, Hydrology, Environmental, Transportation.

The schedule of these sessions was:

Structural Sessions (Room MD497)
(structures, transportation and geomechanics)

*8:30*	*Conference Registration*
9:00	CONFERENCE OPENING Prof. D. Mitchell (Department Chair)
9:10	Real Time Bi-objective Path Search Problem in a Capacitated Transportation Network A. Bhowmick and B. Ashtakala
9:30	Investigating the Relationship between Proximity to Subway Stations and Rates of Transit Use in Montreal and Toronto R. Merissa, T. Spurr and M. Haider
9:50	Spectral Element of a Helix H. Shahsavari and M. Ostoja-Starzewski
10:10	Microzonation of the Island of Montreal R. Madriz and L. Chouinard
*10:30*	*- 10:50 -- Refreshments*
10:50	Mechanical Behavior of PVC Geomembranes Subjected to Chemical Exposure Q. Yu and A.P.S. Selvadurai
11:10	Seismic Response of Operational and Functional Components Mounted on Building Rooftops R. Assi and G. McClure
11:30	Modeling of Transport in a Porous Medium W. Dong and A.P.S. Selvadurai
11:50	Monitoring the Environmental Load Paths in Wooden Light-Frame Structures G. Doudak and G. McClure
*12:10*	*- 13:00 -- Lunch Break*
13:00	Testing of Light Gauge Steel Frame/Wood Panel Shear Walls A.E. Branston and C.A. Rogers
13:20	Seismic Analysis of Steel Frame/Wood Panel Shear Walls F.A. Boudreault and C.A. Rogers
13:40	Testing and Performance of Steel Frame/Wood Panel Shear Walls C. Chen and C.A. Rogers
14:00	Shear Lag in Steel Tension Connections G. Abi-Saad and D. Bauer
*14:20*	*- 14:40 -- Refreshments*
14:40	Moment Capacity of Pultruded FRP Composite Sheet Pile Panels J. Shanmugam and Y. Shao
15:00	Seismic Water-Crack Interaction in Gravity Dams: Experimental Study and Numerical Simulations F. Javanmardi, P. Léger and R. Tinawi
15:20	Data Analysis of a Concrete Dam in Quebec W. Zhao and L. Chouinard
15:40	Transient Post-Elastic Response of Transmission Towers X.H. Zhang and G. McClure
16:00	CONFERENCE CLOSING G. Doudak (CEGSS Council)
*16:10*	*Wine and Cheese*

Environmental Sessions (Room MD388)
(environment, hydraulics and hydrology)

*8:30*	*Conference Registration*
9:00	CONFERENCE OPENING Prof. D. Mitchell (Department Chair)
9:10	CO2 Capture and Bioconversion to Biogas in an Anaerobic System using an UASB Reactor M. Alimahmoodi and C. Mulligan
9:30	Equilibrium Phase Partitioning and Bioavailability of Petroleum Hydrocarbon-Contaminated Soils at Low Temperatures and under Freeze-Thaw Cycles M. Zaabri and S. Ghoshal
9:50	Effect of Naphthoquinone, Dihydroxynaphthalene, and Siderophore on Biodegradation of Naphthalene and Reduction of Hexavalent Chromium. N.H. Ng and S. Ghoshal
10:10	Kinetics of Laccase-Catalyzed Transformation of Aqueous Phenol S. Kurniawati and J.A. Nicell
*10:30*	*- 10:50 -- Refreshments*
10:50	BPA Conversion Catalyzed by Laccase in a Reverse Micelle System Y. Liu, J.A. Nicell and S. Ghoshal
11:10	Assessing Disinfection Efficiency of Combined UV and PAA for a Physicochemical Wastewater S. Dong and R. Gehr
11:30	Electrochemical Water Disinfection Using Pulsed Electric Fields N. Martin and R. Gehr
11:50	Three-Dimensional Investigations of Recirculating Flow in an Open Channel Embayment with Particle Tracking Velocimetry and Computational Fluid Dynamics E. Jamieson and Susan Gaskin
*12:10*	*- 13:00 -- Lunch Break*
13:00	Three-Dimensional Simulation of Flow Past a Slot in a Rectangular Conduit J. Qu and A.S. Ramamurthy, D. Vo
13:20	Systematic Assessment of Global Optimization Methods for Conceptual Hydrologic Models Calibration N. Peyron and V. Nguyen
13:40	An Integrated Zonal Model to Predict Transient Indoor Humidity Distribution H. Zhao, H. Huang and F. Haghighat
14:00	GIS as a Tool to Improve Water Management J. Carrera and S. Gaskin
*14:20*	*- 14:40 -- Refreshments*
14:40	Visualisation and Quantification of Residual Non-Aqueous Phase Liquids in Porous Media using X-Ray Computed Tomography L. Goldstein, S. Ghoshal and S. Prasher
15:00	Water Demand Management in the Caribbean: A Case Study of Barbados W. Khawam, K. Virjee and S. Gaskin
15:20	Three-Dimensional Numerical Modeling of Flow and Sediment Transport during a Controlled Flood in a River A.O. George, P.M. Biron and A.S. Ramamurthy
15:40	An Experimental Study on a Fish Louver System T. Hamade and S. Gaskin
16:00	CONFERENCE CLOSING N. Peyron (President of CEGSS)
*16:10*	*Wine and Cheese*

All the Abstracts in .pdf format: Abstracts of the Structural Sessions and Abstracts of the Environmental Sessions

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