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The Civil Engineering Department at the Price Faculty of Engineering is the administrative headquarters of SIMTReC - Centre for Structural Innovation and Monitoring Technologies Inc. Professors in Geotechnical Engineeringĭr. The laboratory houses two temperature-controlled chambers. Facilities are available for specialized testing involving biological and chemical composition in groundwater and soils.
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Equipment is available for grain size analysis, triaxial tests at high pressures and temperatures, hydraulic conductivity in flexible-wall cells with suction control, 1-D compression, direct shear (including tests in a large-scale direct shear/pull-out apparatus), thermal conductivity, and erosion measurement. The geotechnical laboratory supports small-scale physical modelling and tests for material properties. Recent projects include analysis of sandbag dike performance, evaluation of design methods for rockfill dams, a full-scale field test on the performance of rockfill columns, and geosynthetic-reinforced slopes and embankments. The geotechnical group is actively involved in laboratory testing, field-scale projects, and numerical modelling in topics that include soil mechanics and foundation engineering, geo-environmental engineering, geosynthetics, soil-structure interaction, groundwater hydrogeology and contaminant transport, ground improvement, and unsaturated soil mechanics.Ĭurrent projects include numerical modelling and analysis of instrumented road embankments on peat and degraded permafrost, small-scale deformation analysis of synthetic ‘see-through’ clay using lasers, evaluation of the erosional properties of riverbanks on Lake Agassiz clay, the impact of soil deformation on buried pipelines, probabilistic slope stability modelling based on spatial variability of soil properties, and groundwater modelling of nitrogen transport processes. A career in geotechnical engineering offers opportunities to combine field exploration, laboratory studies, computer analysis, engineering design, and travel. In a larger sense, geotechnical engineering also includes a wide range of earth-related topics, for example, geo-environmental engineering, geological engineering, rock mechanics, mining engineering, geosynthetics, ground improvement, hydrogeology, and engineering in cold regions. These projects include shallow and deep foundations for buildings, earth retaining structures such as basement walls and bridge abutments, road and railway construction, instabilities of hillsides and riverbanks, and engineered slopes such as earth dams, highway cuts, embankments, and dikes for flood protection. Most engineering projects that come in contact with the earth require the expertise of geotechnical engineers. Present research addresses, among others, nutrient removal and recovery, removal of endocrine-disrupting compounds, municipal solids and sludge utilization, optimization of water treatment processes, cold climate water and waste treatment and industrial waste processes. Our laboratories allow for bench-scale testing of various process conditions in three controlled temperature environmental chambers. State-of-the-art analytical equipment includes, among other, high-performance liquid chromatographs with a variety of detectors, gas chromatographs, automated ion analyzers, atomic absorption spectrophotometer, carbon analyzer, and flow-injection nutrient analyzers.
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In particular, the program aims at developing the principles of reactor and process engineering for the treatment of water, industrial and municipal wastewater and solid waste. The environmental engineering program and the new laboratory offer the latest in instruction and facilities for studying the physicochemical and biological transformation of pollutants in water, wastewater and solid waste. Examples include particle analysis in water and wastewater, floc properties in dissolved air flotation, biological nutrient removal from wastewater and sludge liquor, novel biofilm membrane processes, biosolids processing and disinfection, anaerobic treatment processes, animal residue treatment, fermentation to generate carbon for biological phosphorus removal, clogging of leachate collecting pipes, and bioreactor landfills. The work serves the vibrant communities in the Prairies with special challenges of advanced nutrient removal from water and wastewater, cold climate issues, water and wastewater treatment in remote locations, landfill bioreactor issues. Research in Environmental Engineering encompasses three areas: water treatment, wastewater treatment and solid waste disposal and management.