Research in Civil Engineering
Currently there are 18 full-time professors, four emeritus professors, and 15 adjunct professors, who actively pursuing research and supervising graduate students.
Environmental
Environmental engineering research encompasses water treatment, wastewater treatment, solid waste management, landfill design, biosolids treatment, watershed management, engineered wetland design & groundwater remediation.
[+] Members of the Environmental Engineering Group
Full time professors
- R. Delatolla - wastewater treatment, biofilm, nitrification, emerging contaminants
- K. Kennedy - biological waste treatment, residuals to energy, solid waste, anaerobic digestion
- R. Narbaitz - water treatment, membrane filtration processes, activated carbon adsorption
Emeritus professor
- R. Droste - biological wastewater treatment, modelling, kinetics
[+] Facilities
The environmental engineering lab features the a complete suite equipments for water quality analysis, landfill design, etc. Given that most research projects are multidisciplinary, equipments are shared with the structural, hydraulics and geotechnical labs.
[+] Current projects
Development of membranes for the removal of pharmaceuticals and personal care products from drinking water
Activated carbon treatment of groundwater
Microwave treatment of wastewater sludges
Design of methane oxidation cover
Design of aerobic and anaerobic bioreactor landfill
Modeling of GHG emission from waste management facilities
Design of engineered wetland for the treatment of landfill leachate
Modeling of solid waste settlement
Use of shredded tires as a drainage media in leachate collection systems
Hydrocarbon contaminated soil remediation
Digestion of agricultural wastes
Anaerobic treatment of aircraft deicing wastewater
Fate of mercury in wastewater secondary wastewater treatment plants
Aerobic digestion pretreatment for optimal pathogen destruction
[+] Partners
Ontario Ministry of the Environment
Walkerton Clean Water Centre
Environmental Waste International Inc.
Lake Utopia Paper
Clearford Industries Inc
National Research Council Canada
Natural Resources Canada
LaFlèche Environmental Inc., Transcept-LaFlèche, LaFlèche-Leblanc
R.J. Burnside International Limited
Geotechnical
The geotechnical engineering group specializes in mining geotechnique, saturated and unsaturated soil mechanics, underground disposal of nuclear waste, advanced modeling techniques and rock mechanics.
[+] Members of the Geotechnical Engineering group
Full time professors
- M. Fall - mine-fill technology, nuclear waste disposal and carbon sequestration, problem grounds, coupled processes
- J.-A. Infante - geotechnical design, unsaturated soils, green buildings, renewable energy
- S. Vanapalli - unsaturated soils, hydro-mechanical behaviour of soils, foundation designs
Adjunct professors
- M. Bo - reuse of biosolids and demolition waste, accelerated consolidation tests
- E. Evgin - numerical modeling in geomechanics
- T. Nguyen - Poromechanics, geological disposal of nuclear wastes
- B. Wang - geotechnical engineering, permafrost, rock mechanics
[+] Facilities
The geotechnical engineering lab features the a complete suite equipments for soil parameters analysis, fondation design, etc. Given that most research projects are multidisciplinary, equipments are shared with the structural, hydraulics and geotechnical labs.
[+] Current projects
Development of the technology of paste backfill
Application of the mechanics of unsaturated soils in engineering practice
Foundation design in unsaturated soils
Development of backfill technology
Underground disposal of nuclear wastes in Canada
Development of the technology of landfill biocover
Response of foundation in saturated and unsaturated soils to seismic loads
[+] Graduate Students
To come
Infrastructure
The main thrust of research in infrastructure engineering involves the investigation of analysis, design and construction methods for buildings, bridges and other infrastructure. The department has established research groups in earthcake engineering, blast engineering, tsunami engineering and wind engineering.
More about research being done in the area of Earthquake technologies
More about research being done in the area of Blast technologies
More about what is being done in the area of Tsunami Research
More about what is being done in the area of Wind Research
[+] Members of the Infrastructure Engineering Group
Full time professors
- H. Aoude - fibre reinforced concrete, high performance concrete, earthquake-resistant design, rehabilitation of structures
- E. Dragomirescu - wind effect on structures, probabilistic assessment of structures, structural dynamics
- G. Doudak - timber structures, lateral loads, mid-rise buildings, full scale tests
- B. Martin-Perez - concrete structures, reinforcement corrosion, service life modelling, finite element analysis
- M. Mohareb - steel structures, oil and gas pipelines, buckling, finite element analysis
- D. Palermo - concrete structures, seismic repair and retrofitting, extreme loads, nonlinear finite element analysis
- M. Saatcioglu - earthquake engineering, reinforced concrete structures, blast –resistant structures
Emeritus professors
- J. Gardner - punching shear, shrinkage and creep of concrete, form pressures, flat slab construction loads
- H. Tanaka - structural dynamics, wind engineering, cable-supported bridges, building science
Adjunct professors
- B. Baskaran - wind effects on building envelope systems, performance of building against under wind effects
- J. Beaudoin - cement chemistry; cement-based nanocomposites, properties of cementitious materials, durability
- M. Cheung - analysis and design of Bridges, finite strip method
- G. Larose - wind engineering, bridge aerodynamics, cable aerodynamics, wind tunnel testing
- N. Naumoski - earthquake engineering, seismic design, structural analysis, reinforced concrete
- L. Raki - cement-based nanocomposites, supplementary cementing materials and admixtures, layered double hydroxides
- T. Tikka - reinforced concrete, fire effects on structures, blast loads
Earthquake Research
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Water resources
The water resources engineering group specializes in river, coastal, and urban hydraulics. Utilizing knowledge of turbulent fluid flow and sediment transport, the group solves challenging problems in the morphodynamics of rivers and coastlines. Solutions combine leading-edge research in high resolution field measurements, detailed laboratory physical models, and three-dimensional numerical modelling.
More about what is being done in the area of Tsunami Research
[+] Members of the Water Resources Engineering group
Full time professors
- M. Mohammadian - computational fluid dynamics, sediment transport, water quality modeling
- I. Nistor - coastal engineering, tsunami impacts on infrastructure, dam engineering
- C. Rennie - river engineering, fluvial morphodynamics, environmental hydraulics, acoustic measurements
- O. Seidou - hydrology, statistical analysis, climate change, sediment transport
Emeritus professor
- R. Townsend - open-channel hydraulics, river engineering, sediment transportation, hydraulic structures
Adjunct professors
- K. Adamowski - extreme events analysis, climate change
- A. Cornett - coastal engineering, hydraulics, marine energy
- B. Daneshfar - geomatics, quantitative spatial data analysis, geostatistics
- É. Mansard - coastal engineering, coastal structures and wave dynamics
- T. Murty - coastal engineering, coastal inundation, tsunamis, storm surges
[+] Facilities
Research facilities in the hydraulics labs include a series of flumes that are used for physical modeling of hydraulic structures as well high tech-equipement for field measurements of ice and sediments. The water resources group also operate a high performance computer for hydodynaics simulations and climate change studies.
[+] Current projects
Physical and numerical modelling of submerged groynes for bank protection
Field measurements (with ADCP and RTK-GPS) of river flow and sediment processes
Kalman filtering of ADCP and GPS signals
Dam failure mechanisms including formation of breach in earth-filled dams
Physical and numerical modelling of tsunami wave impact on structures
wave and current driven sediment transport and beach deformation
Progressive collapse triggered by bomb blasts in multi-storey buildings
Construction management and green design:
[+] Members of the Construction management group
Full time professors
- A. Jrade - life cycle cost analysis, building information modeling, sustainable construction, operation analysis
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- Full-time professors are presently employed by University of Ottawa
- Emeritus professors are former eminent professors at the University of Ottawa
- Adjunct professors are either retired professors or affiliated with various research institutes in the Ottawa region.