The structural reliability of torsional concrete beams strengthened with full and strip wrapping of carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) laminate is investigated. The first order-second moment reliability method has been applied to make a reliability assessment on the torsional capacity design by technical guideline in Iran. The code No.345 published by the Management and Planning Organizati...

The unifying theme of the conference has been that the inflationary effects associated with changes in commodity prices depend on the more fundamental shocks that drive commodity prices. Moreover, since changes in prices of oil and other commodities are relative price shocks they do not cause inflation. In contrast, central banks can cause inflation and they respond to real shocks, so it is nec...

The topic of our Master of Engineering project is a relaxation wrap aiming to come up with a solution that will relax gamer’s hand and wrist without impacting gaming experience. As Electronic Sports is becoming increasingly popular nowadays. There are many professional gamers participating in various tournaments every. As a matter of fact, most professional games require a mouse as primary sour...

We introduce a manufacturable and scalable method for creating tunable wrinkled ferromagnetic-metallic structures to enhance fluorescence signals. Thin layers of nickel (Ni) and gold (Au) were deposited onto a pre-stressed thermoplastic (shrink wrap film) polymer. Heating briefly forced the metal films to buckle when the thermoplastic retracted, resulting in multi-scale composite 'wrinkles'. Th...

This work is motivated by the need to pass information eeciently among subdomains when solving partial diierential equations with a domain decomposition approach. Because of ever greater demands for exibility, no restrictive assumptions are made about the grids used to discretize the subdomains. Indeed, the union of all grid eld points is treated as a general collection of points from which inf...

This paper describes the first phase of the evolution of the computing environment at Simon Fraser University from a centralized, long established, mainframe based computing environment to a distributed UNIX based computing environment. The first section of the paper gives a brief history of the site and some of the previous initiatives towards distributed computing. The second section describe...

Students are most motivated and learn best when they are immersed in an environment that causes them to realize why they should learn. Perhaps nowhere is this truer than when teaching the biological sciences to engineers. Transitioning from a traditionally mathematics-based to a traditionally knowledge-based pedagogical style can challenge student learning and engagement. To address this, human...

Despite the effort of researchers on distributed systems, programming languages, and security, there is still no good solution offering basic constructs for guaranteeing minimal security at the programming language level. In particular, the notion of a wrapper around an object or component controlling its interaction with the environment has not properly been addressed. This kind of “local fire...