In recent years, the field of geotechnical engineering has identified the significance of the surface mass flux boundary condition on the soil water flow conditions through the vadose zone of the soil profile. This thesis ...

Potash mining creates highly saline waste products. Current industry standards include storage and contamination prevention measures; however, the risk to surrounding soil and groundwater from the highly saline waste ...

A rigorous two-dimensional model is presented describing steady-state flow in saturated-unsaturated soils. 'The model considers continuous flow between the saturated and the unsaturated zone without differentiating between ...

The erodibility of cohesive soils is commonly represented by the critical shear stress, which is the applied shear stress for which erosion is initiated, and the erodibility coefficient, which is a measure of the rate ...

Emergency response time is very important to first responders. In an emergency, there are many factors that can affect the response time. This research focuses on three of the many factors that contribute to delays in ...

Traffic collisions and crimes are issues of concern in most neighbourhoods and cities and they are certainly a concern for the City of Regina. The traditional approach to either preventing or reducing the severity of ...

The hydrological processes of a large-scale prairie watershed pose a number of challenges for a modeller, and are difficult to parameterize in a hydrological model. Prairie land surface heterogeneity includes wetland ...

Environmental forensics of crude oil releases to the environment has been a topic of considerable research in recent years. However, less study has been conducted to develop and employ environmental forensic strategies for ...

Vibration-based damage detection (VBDD) techniques have been proposed as a potential form of structural health monitoring with which an entire structure can be evaluated simultaneously using relatively few sensors. Since ...

Continental glaciers covered as much as thirty percent of the present-day inhabited earth during the Quaternary period. Traditionally, one-dimensional consolidation has been considered as the main process of formation for ...