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June 2-4, 2005 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Canadian Society for Civil Engineering

33rd Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering 2005

TABLE OF CONTENTS

VOLUME 1

6th CONSTRUCTION SPECIALTY CONFERENCE L'INGÉNIERIE DES EXIGENCES EN CONSTRUCTION: UNPROCESSUS AXÉ SUR LA VALEUR.......................................................................................................................................... 1

D. Forgues, O. Gendreau, E. Lefebvre

A LOW COST PROPOSAL TO IMPROVE THE BUILDING ENVELOPE FOR CANADIAN HOUSING ....................................................................................................................... 11

C. Campbell

MEASURING QUALITY IN BUILDING DESIGN ............................................................................... 18L.A. Newton, J. Christian

COST ESTIMATING FOR ACADEMIC BUILDINGS USING FUZZY CLUSTERING TECHNIQUE ....................................................................................................................................... 25

M. Marzouk

CHALLENGES IN RECRUITING AND RETENTION OF CONSTRUCTION PROFESSIONALS ............................................................................................................................. 33

Samuel T. Ariaratnam, Ronnie Rector, David Brown

A METHODOLOGY FOR MODELING TBM ADVANCE RATES IN SOFTGROUND SOILS IN SIMULATION MODELS..................................................................................................... 43

Ahmed A. Shaheen, Aminah Robinson Fayek, S. M. AbouRizk

A FRAMEWORK FOR INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL COLLABORATION ININFRASTRUCTURE AND CONSTRUCTION USING LATTICE ALGEBRA................................. 53

Nora M. El-Gohary, Tamer E. El-Diraby

MOST IMPORTANT WORKER MOTIVATIONAL ISSUES THAT IMPACT PRODUCTIVITY OF ALBERTA CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS ...................................................... 64

K.N. Hewage, J.Y. Ruwanpura

MULTILEVEL INTEGRATED STOCHASTIC NETWORKS FOR COST AND TIME RISK ASSESSMENT.......................................................................................................................... 74

Mohamed Moussa, Janaka Y. Ruwanpura, George F. Jergeas

COMPARISON OF DELAY ANALYSIS SOFTWARE FORCONSTRUCTION PROJECTS ......................................................................................................................................... 84

J. B. Yang

COMPREHENSIVE AND ROBUST QUALITY ASSURANCE SYSTEM FOR CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION .......................................................................................................... 93

M. N. Nazir, J. Y. Ruwanpura, R. L. Day

PRODUCTION-BASED LARGE SCALE SIMULATION MODELING FORCONSTRUCTION PROJECTS ................................................................................................. 102

Ping Wang, Yasser Mohamed, S. M. AbouRizk

OPTIMIZATION OF INFRASTRUCTURE REHABILITATION SCHEDULE USING GENETIC ALGORITHMS ................................................................................................................. 113

Hussien T. AL-Battaineh, S. M. AbouRizk

ENGINEERED DEMOLITION OF HIGHWAY STRUCTURES ........................................................ 120S. Brown

THE USAGE OF DYNAMIC INFORMATION SYSTEM WITH PROCESS-BASED APPROACH IN CONSTRUCTION PROCESS MANAGEMENT OF THE FIRST PHASE OF SOUTH PARS PRODUCTION PLATFORM (SPP1) IN IRAN ..................................... 130

M. Hassani, H. Abbasi, B. Rahmanzadeh, A. Yaghoobi, K. Forouzan

IMPROVING CONSTRUCTION PERFORMANCE IN THE COMMERCIAL BUILDING SECTOR IN THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES................................................................................. 138

S. Alrahomi, S. Alkass, A. Price

AUTOMATED PARAMETRIC COST ESTIMATING MODEL FOR BUILDING PROJECTS ....................................................................................................................................... 147

A. Jrade, S. Alkass

AUTOMATED DATA ACQUISITION FROM CONSTRUCTION SITES .......................................... 155O. Moselhi, S. El-Omari

DETAILED EXECUTION PLANNING MODEL FOR LARGE OIL AND GAS CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS......................................................................................................... 164

L.K. Rankin, J.P. Lozon, G.F. Jergeas

CONSTRUCTION OF BAYESIAN BELIEF NETWORKS FOR DECISION .................................... 173Z. Tang, B. McCabe

THE ROLES AND CHARACTERISTICS OF SPECIFICATIONS FOR DIFFERENT PROJECT DELIVERY APPROACHES............................................................................................ 183

Patrick T.I. Lam, Mohan M. Kumaraswamy, T.S.T. Ng

IMPACT OF EMERGING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ON PROJECT MANAGEMENT ................................................................................................................................ 193

T. Froese

CROSS-COUNTRY PERSPECTIVES ON INTEGRATING CONSTRUCTION PROJECT TEAMS............................................................................................................................ 203

M. Motiar Rahman, Mohan M. Kumaraswamy, Khalid Karim, George Ang, Mohammed Dulaimi

INTEGER OPTIMIZATION OF PROJECT INCENTIVES ................................................................ 213Ali Naji Almassi, Brenda McCabe

MOBILE MULTIMODAL SOLUTIONS FOR PROJECT CLOSEOUT ............................................. 221J. H. Rankin, G. Christie, I. Kondratova

E-BUSINESS AND E-PROCUREMENT IN THE AEC INDUSTRY ................................................. 231J. H. Rankin, Y. Chen

OPPORTUNITIES FOR ICT SUPPORT: A CASE STUDY OF A LEED CONSTRUCTION PROJECT ........................................................................................................... 241

A. Andrews, J. Rankin, L. Waugh, P. Bryden, P. Barteaux, R. Watson

VISUALIZATION OF CONSTRUCTION DATA ............................................................................... 251Tanaya Korde, Yugui Wang, Alan D. Russell

CONTRACTUAL AND BUSINESS RELATIONSHIPS IN CHINA: SOME SOCIETAL AND CULTURAL FACTORS AT PLAY........................................................................................... 262

Shaowen (Wendy) Ding, Paul S. H. Poh

SOFTWARE INTEGRATION IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY ............................................. 267R. Elmaraghy, D. Bauer

CASE STUDY FOR CONSTRUCTION PLANNING AND CONTROL COURSE ............................ 275A.D. Russell, A. Udaipurwala

DELAYS IN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY ..................................................................................... 285Tarek Zayed, Ravi Kalavagunta

A NON-PARAMETRIC OUTLIER MINING ALGORITHM FOR DETECTING ANOMALIES IN CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT DATABASE ...................................................... 294

H. Fan, H. Kim, S. M. AbouRizk

MODELING THE TIME FACTOR IN SITE PLANNING ................................................................... 304F. Sadeghpour, O. Moselhi, S. Alkass

A WEB-BASED PROJECT MANAGEMENT GAME FOR COMPUTERASSISTED INSTRUCTION.................................................................................................................................. 312

H. Fan, T. Froese

RISK OF HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS ...................................................................... 322Tarek Zayed, Jiayin Pan

INFASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT AND QUALITY OF LIFE ASSESMENT IN WAR- TORN THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES - THE CASE OF SIERRA LEONE ....................................... 331

John Bundu Fofanah, Mohamed Al-Hussein

EXPLAINING CONSTRUCTION PERFORMANCE USING CAUSAL MODELS............................ 341M. Li, T. Korde, A.D. Russell

A WEB-BASED COST ESTIMATION SYSTEM FOR INFRASTRUCTURE REPAIR AND IMPROVEMENT ACTIVITIES.................................................................................................. 353

S. Yousefi, T. Hegazy, M. Attalla

AN EXAMPLE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IMPLEMENTATION FOR A MUNICIPALITY: THE FIRE HYDRANT INSPECTION PROCESS ................................................. 361

K.L. Skead, B.G. Wilson, L.M. Waugh, T. Brewer, S. Lee

THE MOBILITY OF EMPLOYMENT IN ONTARIO CONSTRUCTION............................................ 371R. Munteanu, J. Karahalios, B. McCabe, C. Loughlin, G. Robertson, D. Hyatt, S. Tighe

SUSTAINABILITY OF ACADEMIC PROGRAMS IN THE TRAINING OF ASSISTANT PROFESSIONALS IN CONSTRUCTION---THE HONG KONG EXPERIENCE.............................. 381

Kwok-sang Law

INTEGRATION OF DATA AND PROCESSES OF AEC PROJECTS USING THE INDUSTRY FOUNDATION CLASSES............................................................................................. 391

Mahmoud Halfawy, Thomas Froese

SCHEDULING QUALITY ACTIVITIES............................................................................................. 401M. Battikha

A MULTI-TIER BARCODE BASED SYSTEM FOR MANAGEMENT OF CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS......................................................................................................... 409

T. Shehab, O. Moselhi

ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (EDMS) IN CIVIL ENGINEERING PROJECTS ............................................................................................................ 417

M. N. Jadid, M.M. Idrees

EVALUATING INNOVATIVE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGIES FOR SUPER HI-RISE BUILDINGS ON AN INTERNATIONAL BASIS ................................................... 426

Saad F. AboMoslim, Alan D. Russell

QUALITY MANAGEMENT AND IT .................................................................................................. 436K. Zhang, A.D. Russell

ISCAD: INTEGRATED SYSTEM FOR THE DEVELOPMENT PERMIT APPROVAL PROCESS IN THE HOUSING INDUSTRY ...................................................................................... 446

M. AL-Hussein, J. Kumar, V. Sharma

9TH ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING SPECIALTY CONFERENCE IMPACT OF RATE - LIMITED MASS TRANSFER ON SOIL VAPOUR EXTRACTION................. 456

L. Zhao, Richard G. Zytner

THREE DIMENSIONAL SOIL VAPOUR EXTRACTION AND BIOVENTING MODEL................... 466Eyad A. Barakat, Richard G. Zytner

CONTROL OF STYRENE GASES USING VENTURI SCRUBBING .............................................. 476Alex Keen

MEASURING THE PERFORMANCE OF SOLID WASTE COLLECTION VEHICLES USING GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEMS.................................................................................... 481

Betsy Agar, Bruce Wilson, Anne Winning, Brian Baetz

MODELING STORMWATER RUNOFF FROM OPEN WINDROW COMPOSTING SITES ................................................................................................................................................ 491

Ljubisa Kalaba, Bruce Wilson

LIFE-CYCLE ASSESSMENT OF MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTES: DEVELOPMENT OF THE WASTED MODEL .................................................................................................................... 501

R. Diaz, M. Warith

EFFECT OF LEACHATE RECIRCULATION RATE ON BIOREACTOR LANDFILLS PERFORMANCE .............................................................................................................................. 511

Mostafa Warith, Steven Liss

ACCELERATING THE BIODEGRADATION OF HIGH MOISTURE AND ORGANIC CONTENT SOLID WASTES IN BIOREACTOR LANDFILLS ......................................................... 520

H. Jin, M.A. Warith, M. Memon

TREATMENT OF LEACHATE GENERATED FROM BIOREACTOR LANDFILLS ....................... 530Maqsood A. Memon, Mostafa Warith, Hui Jin

THE USE OF PDA IN MEASURING AIR ENTRAINMENT IN AN................................................... 539Mahad S. Baawain, Mohamed Gamal El-Din, Daniel W. Smith

AN EVALUATION OF THREE FRESH WATER MOLLUSC SHELL SANDS AS SORPTIVE FILTER MEDIA FOR REMOVING PHOSPHORUS IN CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS ...................................................................................................................................... 548

M. Laska, B.C. Anderson

TOWARDS ENERGY SELF-SUFFICIENCY AT WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS VIA FERMENTATIVE HYDROGEN PRODUCTION ........................................................ 557

J.T. Kraemer, T. Lu, I. Shizas, D.M. Bagley

ANOXIC PHOSPHOROUS UPTAKE IN CIRCULATING FLUIDIZED BED BIOREACTOR .................................................................................................................................. 565

A. Patel, G. Nakhla, J. Zhu

UASB-ANOXIC-OXIC SYSTEM FOR THE TREATMENT OF HIGH STRENGTH TOMATO PROCESSING WASTEWATER ...................................................................................... 574

Alpesh Gohil, George Nakhla

PERFORMANCE OF PLASMA MODIFIED ULTRAFILTRATION MEMBRANES IN WASTEWATER TREATMENT......................................................................................................... 582

Dagmara Tyszler, Richard G. Zytner, Anne Batsch, Andreas Brügger, Stefan Geissler, Hongde Zhou, Thomas Melin, Doris Klee

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF GENETIC ALGORITHM PARAMETERS FOR GROUNDWATER MONITORING NETWORK DESIGN.................................................................. 592

A. Abdeh-Kolahchi, Mysore Satish, Bithin Datta

FIELD ANALYSIS OF THE MACLEAN AVENUE DETENTION TANK, CITY OF TORONTO ........................................................................................................................................ 601

Lijing Xu, Barry J. Adams

IN SITU CHEMICAL OXIDATION OF CREOSOTE USING PERMANGANTE: IS ENHANCED MASS REMOVAL POSSIBLE?.................................................................................. 611

L. Jones, N. Thomson, S. Forsey

PROTECTING ONTARIO'S SOURCE WATERS FROM DISTRIBUTED CONTAMINANT SOURCES............................................................................................................. 621

S. Watts, B. Gharabaghi, R.P. Rudra, S. Das, S. Guangul

DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTEGRATED GIS AND REMOTE SENSING GEODATABASE FOR WETLAND ASSESSMENT ALONG A PROPOSED HIGHWAY IN SOUTHERN LABRADOR, CANADA .......................................................................................... 629

W. F. Cheng, M. G. Satish, L. Liu, J. Pomeroy, M. Mahoney

APPLICATION OF BATCH PARTICLE COUNTERS FOR MONITORING MEMBRANE INTEGRITY ....................................................................................................................................... 638

Sana Akhtar, Mark Hurl, Sam Neilands, Khosrow Farahbakhsh

WASTE SAMPLING AND STRATEGIES IN DEVELOPING NATION CONDITIONS .................... 646L.N. Alvarez, E.K.L. Tam, T. Pepper

RHAMNOLIPID BIOSURFACTANT ASSISTED DISPERSION AND BIODEGRADATION ......................................................................................................................... 658

D. Martha, C.N. Mulligan

TREATMENT OF OILY FOOD INDUSTRIAL SLUDGE WITH A MAGNETIC COAGULATOR ................................................................................................................................ 668

G. K. Luk, Z. Liu

THE BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF MALODORS GENERATED IN THE PULP AND PAPER INDUSTRY AND ANAEROBIC PROCESSES ................................................................... 676

Fadi Dagher, Maria Elektorowicz

A TWO-STEP MODELING APPROACH FOR THE RECOVERY OF FREE PHASE LNAPL IN PETROLEUM-CONTAMINATED GROUNDWATER SYSTEM ..................................... 689

Zhi Chen

PHASE SEPARATION OF OILY SLUDGE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE ELECTRICAL FIELD ........................................................................................................................ 699

Shiva Habibi, Maria Elektorowicz

A MODEL CORRELATING GAS EXTRACTION WITH GAS GENERATION IN LANDFILLS ...................................................................................................................................... 706

T. Chakraborty , A. Garg, G. Achari

CALGARY BIOCELL: DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF AN INNOVATIVE LANDFILL CELL IN COLD CLIMATES........................................................................................... 714

J.P.A. Hettiaratchi, M. Chandrakanthi, M.D. N. Perera, D. Davies, J. Hundal, D. Van Everdingen

THIN BIOCOVERS FOR CONTROLLING SHORT-TERM METHANE EMISSIONS...................... 723K. Perdikea, J.P.A. Hettiaratchi, D. Pokhrel, A. Mehrotra

SANITARY LANDFILL USING FUZZY COMPOSITION ................................................................. 732A. Garg, G. Achari, R. Joshi

MULTI-METAL POLLUTION ALONG HIGHWAY CORRIDORS .................................................... 739H. Preciado, L.Y. Li

SUSTAINABLE REMEDIATION OF ACID ROCK DRAINAGE ALONG HIGHWAYS ................... 748Loretta Y. Li, Min Chen, John Grace

VANCOUVER'S FIRST ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE STREET ..................................... 758Otto Kauffman

SUSTAINABILITY OF AN INTEGRATED SYSTEM INVOLVING ANAEROBIC DIGESTION OF MANURE................................................................................................................ 765

C.N. Mulligan

VOLUME 2

1ST SPECIALTY CONFERENCE ON INFRASTRUCTURE TECHNOLOGIES, MANAGEMENT AND POLICIES MINISTER CAPLAN SPEECH ......................................................................................................... 774

Hon. Minister David Caplan

MARK HOLLAND SPEECH ............................................................................................................. 785Mark Holland

OPENING REMARKS ...................................................................................................................... 791Mark Holland

CHALLENGES OF MANAGING THE BUILT INFRASTRUCTURE ................................................ 797Ralph Haas

INFRASTRUCTURE DURABILITY AND SUSTAINABILITY .......................................................... 872Saeed Mirza

AUTOMATED SYSTEMS FOR INFRASTRUCTURE CONDITION ASSESSMENT....................... 953Kenneth Maser

THE ROLE OF THE ENGINEERING PROFESSION..................................................................... 1026Marie Carter

IDENTIFYING & SHARING INFRASTRUCTURE PRACTICES USING A NETWORK APPROACH.................................................................................................................................... 1048

Nancy Schepers

INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON CIVIL INFRASTRUCTURE ........................................... 1059Allan Perks

HIGHWAY INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT IN THE UK ...................................................... 1089David Cleland

ETC: ELECTRONIC TOLL COLLECTION SYSTEM .................................................................... 1132Eiki Aramaki

ASSET MANAGEMENT A VIEW FROM DOWN UNDER ............................................................. 1155Tony Porter

STRATEGIES TO FINANCE THE UPGRADING OF CANADA’S PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE ....................................................................................................................... 1177

Don Drummond

CIVIL INFRASTRUCTURE RENEWAL: THE P3 SOLUTION....................................................... 1190Don Pierce

PLANNING FOR ONTARIO’S RENEWAL GROWTH PLANNING AND PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT IN ONTARIO ........................................................................ 1213

John McKendrick

RISK MANAGEMENT LINKED TO ASSET MANAGEMENT ....................................................... 1231Mike Price

IMPEDIMENTS TO DECISION-MAKING AND POLICIES FOR MUNICIPAL INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT............................................................................................ 1259

Leo Gohier

EDMONTON’S ASSET MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE ............................................................... 1287Konrad Siu

APPLICATION OF A COMBINED FRAMEWORK OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANISATION AND FINANCIAL POLICIES FOR PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP POLICY STRATEGIES IN INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT.............................................................. 1306

Kathri Devapriya

INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT, TECHNOLOGIES & POLICIES ....................................... 1316Don Osmond

CHALLENGES FACING ONTARIO’S INFRASTRUCTURE ......................................................... 1329Paul Evans

KEEPING GREATER VANCOUVER MOVING ............................................................................. 1338Sheri Plewes

WHAT IS YOUR CAPACITY FOR SUCCESSFUL DECISION-MAKING FOR YOUR PROGRAM ASSET MANAGEMENT?........................................................................................... 1348

Sylvie Lemieux

PREDICTING BRIDGE DECK PERFORMANCE USING MARKOVIAN MODELS ...................... 1358G. Morcous

INTEROPERABLE DATA COLLECTION FOR INFRASTRUCTURE PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT ............................................................................................................................... 1367

A. Abdel-Rahman, T.E. El-Diraby

DETERMINATION OF OPTIMAL DEPTH IN CURTAIN GROUT OF FOUNDATION USING NUMERICAL MODELING TECHNIQUE IN AZADI ROCKFILL DAM .............................. 1375

H. Abbasi, D. Azizmohammadi

MAINTENANCE AND MANAGEMENT OF INTERLOCKING CONCRETE PAVEMENTS .................................................................................................................................. 1384

R.J. Burak

SUBSURFACE UTILITY ENGINEERING IN ONTARIO: CASE STUDIES AND LESSONS LEARNED..................................................................................................................... 1394

H. Osman, T. El-Diraby

ENGINEERING OF TRENCHLESS PIPE REPLACEMENT PROJECTS FOR INFRASTRUCTURE RENEWAL.................................................................................................... 1402

Samuel T. Ariaratnam, Wing Chan

INFRAGUIDE(r) - IDENTIFICATION AND DISSEMINATION OF INFRASTRUCTURE BEST PRACTICES USING A NETWORK APPROACH ............................................................... 1412

N. Schepers

A FRAMEWORK FOR ASSET VALUATION OF CIVIL INFRASTRUCTURE.............................. 1421L. Cowe Falls, R. C. G. Haas, S. L. Tighe

PRELIMINARY PERFORMANCE MEASURES FOR SNOW AND ICE CONTROL..................... 1431L. Cowe Falls, R. Jurgens

INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENTS AND SCIENCE PARK DEVELOPMENT: TAIWAN'S HSINCHU SCIENCE PARK......................................................................................... 1442

Ching-chin Huang, Kun-Jung Hsu, Wu Cho Fu

REHABILITATION OF COMPRESSION MEMBERS IN STEEL BRIDGES: ANALYSIS OF BUILT-UP HYBRID MEMBERS ............................................................................................... 1452

K. Shek, F. M. Bartlett

MANAGING INFRASTRUCTURE ASSETS THROUGH RISK ANALYSIS .................................. 1462R. Frenette, B. Gérard, O. Bernard, B. Capra

EFFECT OF CORROSION ON DIFFERENT STEELS AND CONCRETE TYPES ....................... 1470Assem Hassan, Lamya Amleh

DETERMINATION OF REFRACTORY LINING THICKNESS AND QUALITY IN OPERATING INDUSTRIAL FURNACES, USING A STRESS WAVE REFLECTION TECHNIQUE ................................................................................................................................... 1480

Afshin Sadri, Mohamed Lachemi, Gary Walters

NETWORK-LEVEL BRIDGE MANAGEMENT USING A MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION DECISION MODEL.............................................................................................. 1490

Z. Lounis

CLOSED-FORM SOLUTIONS FOR THE TRANSFER OF PRESTRESSED CFRP SHEETS .......................................................................................................................................... 1499

Yail J. Kim, R. Gordon Wight, Mark F. Green

EXCITATION SOURCES FOR VIBRATION-BASED DAMAGE DETECTION ON THE RED DEER RIVER BRIDGE .......................................................................................................... 1507

M. Alwash, B. Sparling, L. Wegner

ANALYTICAL MODELING OF FRP-REINFORCED CONCRETE BEAMS FAILED IN SHEAR............................................................................................................................................ 1517

A. El-Sayed, E. El-Salakawy , B. Benmokrane

LIFE-CYCLE COST ANALYSIS PROTOCOL FOR INFRASTRUCTURE ASSETS..................... 1527R. C. G. Haas,S. L. Tighe, L. Cowe Falls

AUGMENTED REALITY INTERACTION MODEL FOR MOBILE INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS............................................................................................................ 1539

A. Hammad, B. Khabeer, E. Mozaffari, P. Devarakonda, P. Bauchkar

VOLUME 3

LOCATION-BASED MOBILE BRIDGE INSPECTION SUPPORT SYSTEM................................ 1549

Y. Hu, A. Hammad

SPATIO-TEMPORAL ISSUES IN INFRASTRUCTURE LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS ....................................................................................................................................... 1559

C. Zhang, A. Hammad

VIRTUAL REALITY MODELS FOR LOCATION-BASED FACILITIES MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS ....................................................................................................................................... 1569

E. Mozaffari, A. Hammad, K. El-Ammari

UPGRADING NEED ASSESSMENT FOR RURAL ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE IN SASKATCHEWAN'S HEAVY OIL PRODUCING REGION ........................................................... 1579

Andrew Liu, George Stamatinos, Les Bell, Rod Harder

FAILURE CONDITIONS OF ASBESTOS CEMENT WATER MAINS IN REGINA ....................... 1588Y. Hu, D.W. Hubble

SYSTÈME INTERACTIF D'AIDE À LA DÉCISION POUR GÉRER LE RISQUE DANS LES PROJETS DE PARTENARIAT PUBLIC-PRIVÉ .................................................................... 1598

J. Comeau, E. Miresco

TRINITIY IN TRANSPORTATION PLANNING: STRATEGIC PLANNING, ASSET MANAGEMENT, AND PERFORMANCE MEASURES ................................................................. 1608

D. Mizusawa, S. McNeil

DEVELOPMENT OF SEWER REHABILITATION PROJECT MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM ............................................................................................................... 1616

F. Zhou, J. Mazurat, K.Chua

BRIDGE DECK REHABILTATION PRACTICES IN NORTH AMERICA: A COMPREHENSIVE INFORMATION SURVEY .............................................................................. 1623

M. Lachemi, M. Ramcharitar, K.M.A. Hossain, M. Shehata

BRIDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS IN ALBERTA...................................................................... 1633H. R. Soleymani, P. D.Carter, C. Wong

MODELING EXTERNALLY PRESTRESSED CONCRETE BEAMS ............................................ 1643Mohamad Abd El Aziz, Faouzi Ghrib, George Abdel Sayed, Nabil F.Grace

COMPARING HORIZONTAL DIRECTIONAL DRILLING VERSUS OPEN CUT FOR THE INSTALLATION OF A SANITARY SEWER .......................................................................... 1651

Peter Langan

FRP REHABILITATION OF FAÇADES IN A TORONTO DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD FACILITY ........................................................................................................................................ 1657

L. McCuaig, L Reginato, M. Attalla, K. Soudki

EFFECT OF CFRP SHEETS ON CONCRETE-STEEL BOND STRENGTH................................. 1666A. Rteil, K. Soudki, T. Topper

3D NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF MORNING GLORY SPILLWAY IN PARIAN STORAGE DAM USING DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD .......................................................... 1672

H. Abbasi, S. Taghipoor

URBAN MORPHOLOGY AND INFRASTRUCTURE: IMPLICATIONS FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE ............................................................................................................... 1682

C.A. Kennedy, E.J. Miller, B.W. Karney, K.D. Pressnail, B.Y. McCabe, H.L.MacLean, W.H. Vanderburg, B.J. Adams

TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE URBAN TRANSPORTATION .......................................................... 1690E.J. Miller, B. Abdulhai, A.S. Shalaby

DEVELOPMENT OF SUSTAINABLE WATER SYSTEMS FOR URBAN AREAS: A HUMAN HYDROLOGIC CYCLE APPROACH .............................................................................. 1698

David Bagley, Robert Andrews, Barry Adams, Bryan Karney

ENGINEERING AND URBAN DESIGN: WHO LEADS WHOM?.................................................. 1708Paul Gauvreau

TOWARDS A VISUAL GUIDANCE SYSTEM FOR CONDITION ASSESSMENT OF THE BUILDING INFRASTRUCTURE ............................................................................................ 1718

A. Elhakeem, T. Hegazy

ALTERNATIVE FORMULATIONS FOR LARGE SCALE OPTIMIZATION OF INFRASTRUCTURE MAINTENANCE ........................................................................................... 1726

H. Elbehairy, T. Hegazy, E. Elbeltagi, K. Soudki

THE FRPS UPGRADE THE MASONRY WALLS - AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION ............................................................................................................................ 1735

D. Panichkov, F. Rangelova

BASIC INVESTIGATIVE RECOMMENDATIONS BY THE STRENGTHENING, REHABILITATION AND RECONSTRUCTION OF THE CIVIL ENGINEERING STRUCTURES................................................................................................................................ 1742

F. Rangelova, D. Panichkov

DURABILITY OF REINFORCED CONCRETE ITS EFFECT ON AGRICULTURAL BUILDING INFRASTRUCTURE .................................................................................................... 1748

Vivian Assaad Abdelmseeh, Jan Jofriet, Satish Negi, Gordon Hayward

SUMMARY OF RECENT STUDIES OF STEEL AND P/S BRIDGE BEHAVIOR DURING CONSTRUCTION IN PENNSYLVANIA .......................................................................... 1758

D.G. Linzell

Modeling the Effect of Corrosion on Bond Strength at Steel- Concrete Interface Using Finite Element Analysis..................................................................................................... 1768

Alaka Ghosh, Lamya Amleh

SIMPLE BLAST RESISTANCE EVALUATION OF STRUCTURES ............................................. 1778G. Razaqpur, S. Foo, E. Contestabile, B. Von Rosen

CANADIAN REGULATIONS RELATED TO EXPLOSIVES.......................................................... 1788Juri T. Kasemets, P. Eng.

THE BLAST MITIGATION WORKING GROUP............................................................................. 1795Ettore Contestabile, Simon Foo, Bert von Rosen, Abass Braimah, Juri Kasemets, Abd El Halim A.O. Abd El Halim, G. Razaqpur4

A SUMMARY OF BLAST MITIGATION STRATEGIES FOR THE PROTECTION OF BUILDINGS .................................................................................................................................... 1801

Abass Braimah, Simon Foo, Ettore Contestabile, Bert von Rosen

DEVELOPMENT OF A RAPID SCREENING TOOL FOR THE DETERMINATION OF BUILDING VULNERABILITY TO EXTERNAL BOMBING............................................................ 1808

Bert von Rosen, Simon Foo, Ettore Contestabile, Abass Braimah

THE OPTIMIZATION OF INFRASTRUCTURE BUDGET ALLOCATION USING GENETIC ALGORITHMS ............................................................................................................... 1815

Hussien T. AL-Battaineh, S.M. AbouRizk, K.L. Siu, Michel Allouche

VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT OF CIVIL INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS: A NETWORK APPROACH ................................................................................................................ 1825

O. Moselhi, A. Hammad, S. Alkass, C. Assi, M. Debbabi, M. Haider

A BUILDING MAINTENANCE DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM................................................... 1833Robert Langevine, Michael Allouche, S.M. AbouRizk, John Nicoll

ANALYSE DE LA RUPTURE D'UN BARAGE PAR SUBMERSION ............................................ 1843I. Nistor, C.D. Rennie

MODULAR RISK MODELING AND MANAGEMENT OF WATER INFRASTRUCTURE DISASTER INCIDENTS.................................................................................................................. 1851

G. Parker, R.L. Droste, R.M. Narbaitz

RESPONSE OF REINFORCED CONCRETE FRAME BUILDINGS TO BLAST LOADING........................................................................................................................................ 1861

T. Ozbakkaloglu, N. Naumoski, M. Saatcioglu

EARTHQUAKE PREPAREDNESS THROUGH SEISMIC RETROFITTING NONDUCTILE STRUCTURES ....................................................................................................... 1871

M. Saatcioglu

ASSET MANAGEMENT SCORECARD: A WIN, LOSE OR DRAW APPROACH TO INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT............................................................................................ 1881

P. Marsh

APPLICATION OF A COMBINED FRAMEWORK OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANISATION AND FINANCIAL POLICIES FOR PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP POLICY STRATEGIES IN INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT.............................................................. 1891

K.A.K. Devapriya

GENERAL CONFERENCE AND INTERNATIONAL HISTORY SYMPOSIUM FORGING PROFESSIONAL BODY AND HIGHER EDUCATIONAL LINKS: A MODEL FOR ADOPTION/ADAPTION......................................................................................................... 1899

P Watson, T Howarth, D Gibson

COMPUTER TOOL TO ACHIEVE BETTER PERFORMANCE AND INTEGRATION OF BUILDING ENVELOPES WITH STRUCTURAL AND MECHANICAL SYSTEMS ................. 1907

A. Hammad, P. Fazio, H. S. He

DÉFORMATIONS ET CONTRAINTES DANS LES BARRAGES EN ENROCHEMENT AVEC MASQUE AMONT EN BÉTON DE CIMENT REPOSANT SUR UN MORT-TERRAIN ........................................................................................................................................ 1917

Michel Massiéra, Janelle Vautour, Yousef Hammamjiet, Anna Szostak-Chrzanowski

STRUCTURAL PARAMETERS FOR SHEAR LAG PHENOMENON IN FRAMED TUBE STRUCTURES WITH INTERNAL TUBE(S) ....................................................................... 1927

K. K. Lee, K. J. Lee

AN ANT COLONY OPTIMISATION APPROACH TO THE AUTOMATIC OPTIMAL DESIGN OF STRUCTURES........................................................................................................... 1937

J. A. Bland

COMPARISON OF GENETIC ALGORITHMS TO MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING FOR THE OPTIMAL DESIGN AND OPERATION OF PUMPING STATIONS.............................. 1946

Mahdi Moradi-Jalal, Bryan W. Karney

DEVELOPMENT OF EDUCATION TOOLS FOR INTERLOCKING CONCRETE PAVEMENTS .................................................................................................................................. 1956

W. Chung, S. Tighe, Rob Burak

Cm FACTOR FOR COMPOSITE COLUMNS BENDING ABOUT THE MINOR AXIS OF THE STEEL CORE ................................................................................................................... 1964

Timo K. Tikka, S. Ali Mirza

TOOLS AND TOYS FOR TEACHING DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS METHODOLOGY .............. 1974L. M. Lye

EI OF SLENDER COMPOSITE STEEL-CONCRETE COLUMNS BENDING ABOUT THE MAJOR AXIS.......................................................................................................................... 1983

Timo K. Tikka, S. Ali Mirza

FINITE ELEMENT MODELLING OF GUSSET PLATE-TO-TUBE SLOTTED CONNECTIONS.............................................................................................................................. 1992

Gilberto Martinez Saucedo, Jeffrey A. Packer, Silke Willibald, Xiao-Ling Zhao

PRELIMINARY GEOTECHNICAL TASK SEQUENCE & TIME LINE ANALYSIS FOR THE CANADIAN ARCTIC RAILROAD PROJECT ........................................................................ 2002

Ginnever, L.

PERMANENT FERROCEMENT FORMS FOR CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION .......................... 2009Ezzat H. Fahmy, Yousry B. Shaheen, Alaa Abdel Tawab

WIND-INDUCED PRESSURES ON PARAPETS: EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL EVALUATION ................................................................................................................................. 2018

R. Bedair, T. Stathopoulos

SERVICEABILITY OF CONCRETE MEMBERS BASED ON UTILITY THEORY......................... 2028Y.H. Lee, A. Scanlon

DEVELOPMENT OF STRUCTURAL DESIGN TOOLS FOR PRACTICAL CAD APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................................................. 2036

R. A. Sabouni, A. R. Sabouni, K. M. El-Sawy

NONLINEAR ANALYSIS OF REINFORCED CONCRETE SWAY FRAMES ............................... 2046Timo K. Tikka

STRUCTURAL REHABILITATION OF THE HEART LAKE TUNNEL.......................................... 2055B. Bennett, P. Branco, H. McColm, J. Ostrowski, P. Ojala, D. Wong

A STUDY OF STATISTICAL MODELS FOR EXTREME WIND SPEED ESTIMATION ............... 2065Ying An, M.D. Pandey

A NEW DISPLACEMENT- BASED DESIGN METHOD FOR BUILDING ..................................... 2075J. Humar, M. Ghorbanie-Asl

EFFECTS OF SILICA FUME AND FLY ASH ON THE PROPERTIES OF HIGH PERFORMANCE CONCRETE....................................................................................................... 2085

Md. Safiuddin, M.F.M. Zain

NONLINEAR VISCOELASTIC MODELLING OF CREEP OF POLYETHYLENE......................... 2095H. Liu, M.A. Polak

BOND SPLITTING STRENGTH OF LAP SPLICING OF GFRP BARS IN CONCRETE .............. 2105Ragi Aly, Brahim Benmokrane

STEEL ROOFS DESIGNED TO RETAIN RAINWATER ............................................................... 2113D. Praught, F.M. Bartlett

FULL-SCALE TESTS ON COLLARED REINFORCED CONCRETE COLUMNS UNDER CYCLIC SHEAR-DOMINANT LOADING ......................................................................... 2123

J. Liu, R.G. Driver

ANALYTICAL MODEL OF A GROUP OF STONE COLUMNS .................................................... 2133M. Etezad, A. M. Hanna, T. Ayadat

A WEB-BASED INTERACTIVE COURSEWARE FOR THE LEARNING OF STRUCTURAL FRAMING SYSTEM DESIGN OF TALL BUILDINGS.......................................... 2143

R.Chan, J. Kong

THE TIME-COST RELATIONSHIP OF HI-TECH STANDARD FAB CONSTRUCTION AT THE HSINCHU SCIENCE PARK ............................................................................................. 2152

Kun-Jung Hsu, Ching-chin Huang

BEHAVIOR OF FERROCEMENT PANELS UNDER AXIAL AND FLEXURAL LOADINGS ..................................................................................................................................... 2162

Ezzat H. Fahmy, Mohamed N. Abou Zeid, Yousry B. Shaheen, Hassan Gaafar

CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT GRADUATE PROGRAMMES IN THE NETHERLANDS: REVIEW AND COMPARISONS ....................................................................... 2172

E. Lobbes, S. Al-Jibouri, S. AlKass

MODELLING AND SIMULATING EARTHWORKS CONSTRUCTION PROCESSES ................. 2182S. Al-Jibouri, M. Mawdesley

AN APPROACH TO TEACHING A FIRST YEAR ENGINEERING DESIGN COURSE................ 2189L. M. Lye

IMPACT RESISTANCE OF LONG FIBER CONCRETE ............................................................... 2199A.J. Schokker, E.J. Moser

GLASS FIBRE REINFORCED POLYPROPYLENE BRIDGE DECK PANEL DESIGN, FABRICATION AND LOAD TESTING........................................................................................... 2206

R.J. Roy, A.S. Debaiky, H. Borazghi, B. Benmokrane

PROPERITES OF CONCRETE MIXTURES INCORPORATING MAGNITIZED WATER ............ 2215Mohamed N. Abou-Zeid, Ezzat H. Fahmy, Mohamed Abdel-Raouf

SHEAR REINFORCEMENT IN WIDE CONCRETE BEAMS......................................................... 2225A.S. Lubell, E.C. Bentz, M.P. Collins

THE BEHAVIOUR OF LARGE, LIGHTLY REINFORCED CONCRETE BEAMS AND ONE-WAY SLABS.......................................................................................................................... 2234

E.G. Sherwood, E.C. Bentz, M.P. Collins

PERFORMANCE-BASED SEISMIC RISK ASSESSMENT OF BUILDINGS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA: PROJECT OVERVIEW.............................................................................. 2244

T. White, C.E. Ventura, G. Taylor, K. Elwood

PERFORMANCE-BASED SEISMIC RISK ASSESSMENT OF BUILDINGS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA: ANALYTICAL METHODS ......................................................................... 2253

T. White, C.E. Ventura, G. Taylor, K. Elwood

ENERGY-EFFICIENT AND SUSTAINABLE CONCRETES FOR INSULATED CONCRETE FORM CONSTRUCTION .......................................................................................... 2263

M. N. Nazir, R. L. Day, L. Moore

CLASSIFICATION OF RIVER WATER QUALITY USING FUZZY SYNTHETIC EVALUATION TECHNIQUE .......................................................................................................... 2273

J. Pokhrel, R. Sadiq

PERFORMANCE OF A NOVEL FASTENER IN LAMINATED STRAND LUMBER AND SPRUCE ......................................................................................................................................... 2283

B. Murty, A. Asiz, I. Smith

NUMERICAL MODELING OF MULTIPLE-BOLT CONNECTIONS IN ENGINEERED WOOD PRODUCTS ....................................................................................................................... 2291

M. Snow, A. Asiz, I. Smith

PERFORMANCE BASED SEISMIC DESIGN OF STRUCTURES EQUIPPED WITH HYSTERETIC DAMPERS .............................................................................................................. 2299

Nabil Mansour, Constantin Christopoulos

ANALYTICAL INVESTIGATION ON FRP REINFORCED CONCRETE BRIDGE DECK SLABS ............................................................................................................................................ 2309

A. El Ragaby, E. El-Salakawy, B. Benmokrane

ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURAL STRESSES DURING HANDLING AND TRANSPORTATION OF PREFABRICATED HOUSING UNITS................................................... 2319

A. Asiz, M. Iranpour, I. Smith

VOLUME 4

MULTIMEDIA COMPUTER-BASED TRAINING MODULES TO SIMPLIFY FLOOD MAP REVISIONS............................................................................................................................ 2327

M.H. Woo

METHANE OXIDATION IN LANDFILL SOIL COVERS ................................................................ 2331M. AlBanna, L. Fernandes, M. Warith

RISK ASSESSMENT IN PIPELINE PROJECTS USING BELIEF NETWORKS AND COMPUTER SIMULATION ............................................................................................................ 2341

M. Marzouk, A. Eldieb

DAMAGE MODELLING OF POLYETHYLENE ............................................................................. 2349J.A. Alvarado-Contreras, M.A. Polak, A. Penlidis

RAPID CHLORIDE PENETRABILITY TEST: A NEW LOOK ....................................................... 2359M. T. Bassuoni, T. R. Greenough, M. L. Nehdi

EFFECTS OF HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL STIFFENERS ON THE BEHAVIOR OF THE MOMENT RESISTING STEEL BEAM-LATTICED COLUMN CONNECTIONS ................... 2369

Iraj H.P. Mamaghani, Ashkan Vosooghi

IMPLEMENTATION OF CIVIONICS IN A SECOND GENERATION STEEL-FREE BRIDGE DECK ............................................................................................................................... 2379

Chad Klowak, Aftab Mufti

INELASTIC CYCLIC ANALYSIS OF STEEL BRACES ................................................................ 2389Iraj H.P. Mamaghani

DEVELOPING CONSTRUCTION DYNAMIC CONTROL AND MONITOR PORTAL INTEGRATED ERP SYSTEM ........................................................................................................ 2399

Yu-Cheng Lin, P. H. Lin

MULTIMEDIA-INTEGRATED APPLICATION FOR COMPUTERASSISTED TEACHING SYSTEMS ................................................................................................................... 2407

Yu-Cheng Lin, Lung-Chuang Wang

MODELING SHEAR CAPACITY OF REINFORCED CONCRETE BEAMS USING GENETIC ALGORITHMS ............................................................................................................... 2414

T. Greenough, M. Nehdi

DEVELOPING PASTE BACKFILL FROM HEATH STEELE MINE SULPHIDIC TAILINGS USING INDUSTRIAL BY-PRODUCTS ........................................................................ 2424

Amjad Tariq, Moncef Nehdi

EFFECT OF CHEMCAL ADMIXTURES AND HIGH TEMPERATUES ON YIELD STRESS AND PLASTIC VISCOSITY OF CEMENT PASTES ...................................................... 2434

S. Al-Martini, M. L. Nehdi

FIELD PERFORMANCE OF A CONCRETE PIPE CULVERT INSTALLED USING STANDARD INSTALLATIONS ...................................................................................................... 2442

P.D. Smeltze, L. Daigle

COMPARISONS OF SEISMIC PERFORMANCE OF HIGH-STRENGTH CONCRETE SQUARE COLUMNS CONFINED BY FRP CASINGS AND CONVENTIONAL STEEL REINFORCEMENT......................................................................................................................... 2452

T. Ozbakkaloglu, M. Saatcioglu

STRENGTHENING OF ONE WAY REINFORCED CONCRETE SLABS WITH MECHANICALLY-ANCHORED UNBONDED FRP STRIPS ......................................................... 2462

T. El Maaddawy, J. Hamelin, T. Hrynyk, L. Schaus, K. Soudki

MULTIPLE BOLTED CONNECTIONS IN PULTRUDED FRP COMPONENTS ........................... 2469M.A. Erki, C.R. Shyu, R.G. Wight

A SPATIAL GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF IMPACT OF LAND USE DEVELOPMENT ON GROUNDWATER RESOURCES IN THE SANGONG OASIS REGION USING REMOTE SENSING IMAGERY AND DATA ...................................................... 2476

Xi Chen, Jinfeng Yan, Zhi Chen, Geping Luo, Qing Song, Wenqiang Xu

FRACTURE TOUGHNESS MEASUREMENT IN BRITTLE ROCKS ............................................ 2486M. J. Iqbal, B. Mohanty

A NEW ENERGY PRICING MODEL: THE ESCALATING FAILURE OF NEOCLASSICAL ECONOMIC MODELS AND SOME POSSIBLE IMPLICATIONS FOR FUTURE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE DOLLAR AND THE EURO ................................... 2493

M.R. Islam, G.M. Zatzman

AN ADOMIAN DECOMPOSITION TO THE MODIFIED BRINKMAN MODEL (MBM) FOR A 2-DIMENSIONAL, 1-PHASE FLOW OF PETROLEUM FLUIDS ...................................... 2502

S. Mustafiz, J. Biazar, M.R. Islam

ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING OF OIL DISCHARGES FROM PRODUCED WATER IN THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT ................................................................................................. 2510

M. I. Khan, M.R. Islam

A NOVEL PETROLEUM WELL COMPLETION TECHNIQUE...................................................... 2520F. Taheri, D. Prior, H. Vaziri, M.R. Islam

NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF A NOVEL PERFORATION TECHNIQUE IN PETROLEUM WELLS - PERFORATION BY DRILLING ................................... 2532

M.A. Rahman, J. Biazar, M. Koksal, M.R. Islam

FORMULATION OF TWO PHASE, TWO DIMENSIONAL NON-LINEAR PDE's AS APPLIED IN WELL-TESTING ........................................................................................................ 2541

S. Mustafiz, M.R. Islam

DIRECT-USAGE SOLAR REFRIGERATION: FROM IRREVERSIBLE THERMODYNAMICS TO SUSTAINABLE ENGINEERING .......................................................... 2549

M.M. Khan, D. Prior, M.R. Islam

FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF A HYPER UMBRELLA SHELL ROOF .................................. 2557A. Mousa

SUSTAINABLE WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS ................................................................... 2567D. Hayward, S. Gaskin

USE OF TEAR-OFF ROOF SHINGLES IN STONE MASTIC ASPHALT MIXTURES.................. 2577M. H. Shehata, M.N. Panhwer

STEEL-CONCRETE INTERACTION IN DOUBLE SKIN PROFILED COMPOSITE WALLS: DEVELOPMENT OF FINITE ELEMENT MODEL........................................................... 2586

K.M.A. Hossain, M. Lachemi, H.D. Wright

PERFORMANCE OF VOLCANIC PUMICE BASED BLENDED CEMENT MORTARS IN SULFATE AND SULFATE-CHLORIDE ENVIRONMENTS ...................................................... 2595

K.M.A. Hossain, M. Lachemi

DEVELOPING A STRUCTURAL INSPECTION PROGRAM FOR TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE ....................................................................................................................... 2605

G. Jin, P. Lester, D. Power, R. Matthews, G. Au

AN INTEGRATED APPROACH OF FLOOD RISK ASSESSMENT FOR THE RED RIVER IN THE SOUTHERN MANITOBA....................................................................................... 2615

Y. A. Elawad, Z. Chen, G. H. Huang, C.V. Tao, R. Abdalla

PETITES INCOHÉRENCES EN INGÉNIERIE DES STRUCTURES ............................................. 2625R. Takácset D. Bauer

SHEAR LAG IN TENSION MEMBER WELDED CONNECTIONS................................................ 2632G. Abi-Saad, A. Benaddi, D. Bauer

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ONLINE GPS PROCESSING SERVICES ........................................ 2642R. Ghoddousi-Fard, P.Dare

REMEDIAL STRATEGY FOR GEODETIC NETWORKS .............................................................. 2652M. Berber, P. Dare, P. Vaníèek

ANALYSIS OF STEEL PLATE SHEAR WALLS USING CONVENTIONAL ENGINEERING SOFTWARE ......................................................................................................... 2659

J.J. Shishkin, R.G. Driver, G.Y. Grondin

EFFECT OF DE-ICER AND ANTI-ICER CHEMICALS ON THE DURABILITY, MICROSTRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES OF CEMENTBASED MATERIALS............................ 2669

G.A. Julio-Betancourt, R.D. Hooton

NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION AND FIELD MONITORING OF KARUN BRIDGE ABUTMENT .................................................................................................................................... 2677

A. Bayat, M. H. Sadaghiani

REINFORCEMENT OF LATTICE COMMUNICATION TOWERS WITH RODS AND ANGLES ......................................................................................................................................... 2685

C. Kumalasari, M.K.S. Madugula, F. Ghrib

CHARACTERISTICS OF PLASMA CUT-WELDED H-SHAPED STEEL COLUMNS .................. 2695A.Pramalathan, K.S. Sivakumaran

INNOVATIVE PREFABRICATED CONCRETE BRIDGE SYSTEM AND CONNECTION TECHNOLOGY ..................................................................................................... 2705

Bijal N. Shah, Khaled Sennah, M. Reza Kianoush, Siyin Tu

FLOW AROUND 90. OPEN-CHANNEL BENDS ........................................................................... 2715Sangsoo Han, Pascale M. Biron, Amruthur S. Ramamurthy

DESIGN OF CONCRETE SLAB-COLUMN JOINTS FOR LATERAL DRIFT............................... 2722R.B. Gayed, A. Ghali

ANALYSIS OF THICK COMPOSITE PLATES USING A SPLINE FINITE STRIP APPROACH.................................................................................................................................... 2732

G. Akhras, W. Li

DETECTION OF UNDERGROUND CAVITIES USING MASW TEST .......................................... 2739A. Nasseri-Moghaddam, C. Phillips, G. Cascante , D. J. Hutchinson

INTERFACIAL BEHAVIOUR OF FRP-CONCRETE JOINTS SUBJECTED TO DIRECT SHEAR............................................................................................................................................ 2750

U.A. Ebead, K.W. Neale

NUMERICAL EVALUATION OF WIND FLOW OVER COMPLEX TERRAIN USING AN OBJECT-ORIENTED APPROACH.......................................................................................... 2760

G.T. Bitsuamlak, C. Bédard, T. Stathopoulos

TENSILE-FLEXURAL BEHAVIOUR OF CARBON-FIBRE REINFORCED POLYMER (CFRP) TENDONS SUBJECTED TO HARPED PROFILES ......................................................... 2770

T.G. Quayle, J.S. West, K.A. Soudki

SELF-CONSOLIDATING HIGH PERFORMANCE CONCRETE INCORPORATING RICE HUSK ASH............................................................................................................................ 2780

Md. Safiuddin, J.S. West, K.A. Soudki

MODULARIZATION TECHNIQUES AND STRUCTURAL STEEL PROCUREMENT ON OPTI-NEXEN'S LONG LAKE UPGRADER PROJECT .......................................................... 2790

S.H. Ainslie, P.O. Burns, R.J. Clark

COUNTER FLOWING WALL JETS FOR POLLUTION CONTROL ............................................. 2800A.S. Ramamurthy, Diep Vo, Magdalena Tudor

COMPARISONS BETWEEN RESULTS OF FIELD AND LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS FOR EVALUATION OF SHEAR RESISTANCE AND DEFORMATION CHARACTERISTICS OF SANDY SOIL............................................................. 2804

A.M. Eid, M.M. El-Assaly

EFFECTS OF FREQUENCY CONTENT OF GROUND MOTION ON SEISMIC RESPONSE OF MULTISTORY BUILDINGS................................................................................. 2815

M.M. El-Assaly

BEHAVIOUR OF SLOTTED HOLE ANGLE CONNECTIONS ...................................................... 2825Jack C.Y. Man, Robert G. Driver, Gilbert Y. Grondin

THE USE OF CFRP IN PRECAST PRESTRESSED HIGH PERFORMANCE CONCRETE .................................................................................................................................... 2835

Adel R. Zaki, Kenneth W. Neale, Gamil Tadros, Marc Demers

A RATIONAL PROPOSAL FOR PREDICTING BEAM DEFLECTION ......................................... 2844P. Bischoff

BACKWATER EFFECT DUE TO A SINGLE SPUR DIKE ............................................................ 2854H. Azinfar, J.A. Kells

EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF COMBINED SYSTEM, 3D WALL PANELS AND BENDING FRAME SUBJECTED TO CYCLIC LOADING......................... 2864

M. Z. Kabir, Y.Nassira

ROBUST ESTIMATION OF LIMIT LOADS OF PLATES .............................................................. 2874Aman A. Bolar, Seshu M. R. Adluri

INELASTIC STRAIN ESTIMATION USING DIRECT SECANT METHODS ................................. 2884Dulal C. Laha, Seshu M. R. Adluri

A PRELIMINARY STUDY OF HIGH STRENGTH CONCRETE TWO-WAY SLABS REINFORCED WITH GFRP BARS................................................................................................ 2894

Q. Zhang, H. Marzouk, A. Hussein

TREATABILITY OF HIGH STRENGTH AND HIGH OIL & GREASE PET FOOD INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER USING MESOPHILIC UASB REACTOR..................................... 2904

J. Jeganathan, G. Nakhla, A. Bassi

POLLUTION PREVENTION PAYS IN FOOD INDUSTRY ............................................................ 2912Alex Keen

AN OVERVIEW OF THE DIPOLE FLOW IN SITU REACTOR ..................................................... 2918N.R. Thomson, B. Reiha, D. McKnight, A.L. Smalley, S.A. Banwart

WATER INPUTS AND OUTPUTS ANALYSIS OF THE GREATER MONCTON AREA .............. 2928Julie Thériault, Anne-Marie Larocheet, Richard Landry

EROSION AND SEDIMENTATION CONTROL GUIDELINES - AN EDMONTON EXPERIENCE ................................................................................................................................. 2938

J. Smart, J. Tan, K. Chua, M. Kan, D. Vanderwel

A SURVEY OF THE JORDANIAN PUBLIC PERCEPTION TOWARD THE CONSUMPTION OF CROPS IRRIGATED BY TREATED WASTEWATER ................................. 2946

Jamal Abu-Ashour

URBAN DESIGN AND ENERGY CONSUMPTION: AN EXPLORATION OF CAUSE AND EFFECT ................................................................................................................................. 2950

J.M.M. Cuddihy, C.A. Kennedy, P.H. Byer

SIMULATING BIOLOGICAL CLOGGING IN UNSATURATED SOILS ........................................ 2960M. Mostafa, P. J. Van Geel

RESEARCH AND IMPLEMENTATION OF KEY TECHNOLOGIES IN DIGITAL QINGJIANG VALLEY..................................................................................................................... 2970

RuiChen Zheng, Zhaoxia Dong, Chen Wang, Xiaojun Tan, Chengjun LI

APPLICATION RESEARCH OF REAL-TIME HYDROGRAPHIC SCHEDULING AND JOINT COMPUTING IN DIGITAL QINGJIANG SYSTEM ............................................................. 2977

Zhaoxia Dong, Jian Li, Wang Chen

LOW-ENERGY HOMES: EVALUATING THE ECONOMIC NEED TO BUILD BETTER NOW................................................................................................................................................ 2983

S. Gray, R.C. Richman, K.D. Pressnail, B. Dong

DRAINAGE AREA AND FLOW FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION PATTERN OF SMALL ONTARIO STREAMS ..................................................................................................................... 2992

A. Quader, Y. Guo

NATURAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND NEIGHBOURHOOD SUSTAINABILITY........................... 3002J.B. Engel-Yan, C.A. Kennedy, K.D. Pressnail

A LIABILITY ALLOCATION RISK FRAMEWORK FOR HOUSEHOLD DRINKING WATER WELLS HISTORICALLY CONTAMINATED BY ORGANIC CHEMICALS..................... 3012

M. Kang, J. F. Sykes, N. R. Thomson

ON THE FACE STABILITY OF TUNNELS IN WEAK ROCKS ..................................................... 3022M. A. Meguid

ANALYTICAL MODELING OF THE SHEAR BEHAVIOR OF RC EXTERIOR BEAM-COLUMN JOINTS .......................................................................................................................... 3031

R. Sadjadi, M. R. Kianoush

ANALYTICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON THE BEHAVIOUR OF FRP REINFORCED CONCRETE BRIDGE DECK SLABS UNDER WHEEL LOAD ............................ 3041

S.E. El-Gamal, E.F. El-Salakawy, B. Benmokrane

ANALYTICAL INVESTIGATION OF SEMI-RIGID FLOOR BEAMS CONNECTION IN MODULAR STEEL STRUCTURES ............................................................................................... 3051

C.D. Annan, M.A. Youssef , M.H. El-Naggar

REMEDIAL APPROACH FOR PETROLEUM HYDROCABON CONTAMINATED GROUNDWATER AT A TTC BUS GARAGE IN TORONTO, ONTARIO ..................................... 3060

A. Drevininkas , P. Laurin, S. Harris , T. Guoth , R. Pasqualoni

SIMPLIFIED MODELLING OF THE FLEXURAL BEHAVIOUR OF RC STRUCTURES .............. 3070M. Rahman, M. A. Youssef, A.A. El Damatty

STUDY OF THE PROGRESSIVE FAILURE OF AN ELECTRICAL TRANSMISSION LINE DUE TO A DOWNBURST EVENT........................................................................................ 3078

A.Y. Shehata, A.A. El Damatty

FABRIC AIDED SLOW SAND FILTER APPLICATION FOR DRINKING WATER TREATMENT .................................................................................................................................. 3088

P.K. Mondal, R. Seth, N. Biswas

FLEXURAL TESTING OF COLD-FORMED STEEL MEMBERS WITH REINFORCED WEB OPENINGS............................................................................................................................ 3097

M. Y. Ng , K.S. Sivakumaran, S. R. Fox

VOLUME 5

IMPACT NOISE ISSUES IN MULTI-FAMILY DWELLINGS.......................................................... 3107

Ramani Ramakrishnan

THERMAL EFFECT ON BOND PROPERTIES OF FRP BARS EMBEDDED IN CONCRETE .................................................................................................................................... 3115

R. Masmoudi, A. Alvarez, J.F. Dubois

INTERNATIONAL HISTORY SYPMPOSIUM WOODEN BRIDGES IN VENETO: 1750 - 1850 ............................................................................ 3125

F. Lanza, A. Mattarucco

NORTH AMERICAS FIRST CIVIL ENGINEERS CONSTRUCT SEVENTH CENTURY SUSPENSION BRIDGE AT YAXCHILAN...................................................................................... 3138

James A O'Kon

THE MEN WHO DEVELOPED THE FIRST STEAM SHOVELS ................................................... 3148Cliff J. Schexnayder, Kraig Knutson

BRIDGES OF VENICE ................................................................................................................... 3157F. Lanza, A. Mattarucco

BRITISH CIVIL ENGINEERS IN CANADA 1830-1890.................................................................. 3169M. M. Chrimes

EIC WORKING PAPERS................................................................................................................ 3182P.R. Hart, A.H. Wilson

THE ERIE CANAL .......................................................................................................................... 3190By M.D. Morris

THE TORONTO SUBWAY ............................................................................................................. 3193Thomas G. Middlebrook

2ND SPECIAL CONFERENCE ON COASTAL, ESTUARY AND OFFSHORE ENGINEERING EROSIONAL PROPERTIES OF THE PETITCODIAC RIVER SEDIMENTS ................................ 3206

A. Rodriguez, K. Haralampides

SALMONID PASSAGE THROUGH STREAM CULVERT ENTRANCES ..................................... 3216P. Wedge, K. Haralampides

AN ECOHYDRAULICS APPROACH TO INCREASING PRODUCTION OF JUVENILE WILD ATLANTIC SALMON (SALMO SALAR) ............................................................................. 3224

M.J. Gallant, K. Haralampides

THE DIRECT JOINT PROBABILITY METHOD FOR ESTIMATING EXTREME SEA LEVELS .......................................................................................................................................... 3233

J. Liu, B. J. Lence, M. Isaacson

A NUMERICAL STUDY OF EXCHANGE AND MIXING OVER A SILL AT THE MOUTH OF THE SAINT JOHN RIVER ESTUARY ....................................................................... 3245

S.P. Haigh, J.E. Hughes Clarke

OBSERVATIONS AND INTERPRETATION OF MIXING AND EXCHANGE OVER A SILL AT THE MOUTH OF THE SAINT JOHN RIVER ESTUARY................................................. 3255

J.E. Hughes Clarke, S.P. Haigh

NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF NUTRIENT-SEDIMENT LOADING AND ALGAL BLOOM RISK ASSESSMENT IN A SHALLOW ESTUARINE LAKE ........................................... 3265

I. Georgiou, J.A. McCorquodale, C. Chilmakuri

FORCES ON ARMOUR UNITS IN A LOW-CRESTED BREAKWATER ...................................... 3274J. A. McCorquodale, W. Pramono, S. Carnelos

THE FATE OF STORMWATER RUNOFF IN AN ESTUARINE LAKE ......................................... 3283C. Chilmakuri, J.A. McCorquodale, I. Georgiou, J. Leal

ACCURATE DETECTION OF WIND WAVE PROFILES .............................................................. 3293M.A. Mukto, M.A. Atmane, M.R. Loewen

FRP COMPOSITE SHEET PILE WALLS FOR SHORELINE PROTECTION............................... 3303Yixin Shao, Anthony Peterson

COASTAL PHYSICAL PROCESSES IN THE GREAT LAKES .................................................... 3313Yerubandi R. Rao

NONLINEAR BUOYANCY AND MIXING OF PLANE THERMOHALINE JETS........................... 3323R.E. Baddour, H. Zhang

LONG-TERM MODELING OF SHORELINE EVOLUTION USING A PROCESS-BASED HYBRID APPROACH ....................................................................................................... 3330

M. Dibajnia, R.B. Nairn

6TH TRANSPORTATION SPECIALTY CONFERENCE PROBABILISTIC ANALYSIS OF SIGHT DISTANCE FOR SIGNALIZED AND STOP-CONTROL INTERSECTIONS ........................................................................................................ 3340

S. Easa, A. Hussain

FLEXIBLE PAVEMENT DESIGN FOR NEW LARGE AIRCRAFT (NLA) BASED ON THE ACN EQUIVALENCY CONCEPT .......................................................................................... 3351

M. Livneh

EVALUATING USER DELAY COSTS FOR TYPICAL ONTARIO WORK ZONES ...................... 3362K. Huen, S. Tighe, B. McCabe

USER PERCEPTIONS OF MAINTENANCE, REHABILITATION AND RECONSTRUCTION STRATEGIES .............................................................................................. 3372

J. Smith, S. Tighe

DEVELOPMENT OF SPRING LOAD RESTRICTIONS USING CANADIAN LONG TERM PAVEMENT PERFORMANCE DATA................................................................................. 3382

P. Leong, S. Tighe, G. Doré

ACCELERATING HIGHWAY BRIDGE DEMOLITION - AN INNOVATIVE APPROACH ............. 3392Cynthia Martin, P.Eng., John P. Does

PREDICTING SEVERITIES OF RURAL MOTOR VEHICLE CRASHES USING ORDERED PROBIT MODELING ................................................................................................... 3402

Sunanda Dissanayake, Indike Ratnayake

ROAD WEATHER FORECAST QUALITY ANALYSIS FOR WINTER MAINTENANCE PURPOSES .................................................................................................................................... 3412

Sunanda Dissanayake, Dean Landman, Wei He

STOP-CONTROLLED INTERSECTION SIGHT DISTANCE: MINOR ROAD ON TANGENT OF HORIZONTAL CURVE .......................................................................................... 3421

Muhammad Z. A. Ali, S. Easa, Dr. Mohammad Hamed

INCORPORATING VARIABILITY INTO LIFE CYCLE COST ANALYSIS AND PAY FACTORS FOR PERFORMANCE-BASED SPECIFICATIONS.................................................... 3431

L. Whiteley, S. Tighe

COMPARISON OF NORTH AMERICAN AND NEW ZEALAND CHIP SEAL DESIGN METHODS ...................................................................................................................................... 3441

D. Gransberg, B. Pidwerbesky, D. James

OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY OF ROUNDABOUTS IN KANSAS ............................................... 3448Eugene R. Russell, Srinivas Mandavilli, Margaret J. Rys

VERIFICATION OF A SIMPLIFIED CAR-FOLLOWING THEORY USING VEHICLE TRAJECTORY DATA..................................................................................................................... 3458

C. Wang, B. Coifman

DEVELOPMENT OF TRAFFIC MONITORING PROGRAM FOR THE YORK REGION, ONTARIO........................................................................................................................................ 3467

O. Tonkonojenkov, A. Hadayeghi, G. Junnor, C. Mollett

RELIABILITY-BASED CALIBRATION OF THE DESIGN MANUAL FOR TORONTO TRANSIT COMMISSION STRUCTURES ...................................................................................... 3479

J. Jay Climenhaga, A. S. Nowak, P. C. Ojala, S. Reed Tanaka

REHABILITATION OF PRECAST TUNNEL LINERS TORONTO SUBWAY ............................... 3490Sameh Ghaly, M.Eng

QUANTITATIVE DESCRIPTION OF INFORMATIONAL DIMENSIONS OF URBAN FREEWAYS .................................................................................................................................... 3499

A. Tsyganov, R. Machemehl, A. Qatan

AN EXAMINATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ACCIDENTS AND URBAN FREEWAYS INFORMATION LOAD .............................................................................................. 3510

A. Qatan, A. Tsyganov, R. Machemehl

ASSESSING TRANSPORTATION POLICY USING AN ACTIVITY-BASED MICROSIMULATION MODEL OF TRAVEL DEMAND ................................................................. 3518

M.J. Roorda, E.J. Miller

AN EVALUATION OF COARSE AGGREGATE TESTS AT THE NCAT TEST TRACK .............. 3528A. Carter, M. Stroup Gardiner

SIMULATING CITIES ..................................................................................................................... 3538E.J. Miller

A MODEL OF TRANSIT PASS OWNERSHIP............................................................................... 3548M. Weldon, M.J. Roorda, E.J. Miller

STATISTICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF TRAFFIC FLOW VARIATIONS DURING STATUTORY HOLIDAY PERIODS................................................................................................ 3556

Zhaobin Liu, Satish Sharma, Kelly Wyatt

REDUCING THE SUSCEPTIBILITY OF FLEXIBLE PAVEMENTS TO MOISTURE INDUCED DAMAGE THROUGH SUPERIOR COMPACTION TECHNOLOGY ........................... 3569

A. Mostafa, Amir Abd El Halim, W. Bekheet, A.O. Abd El Halim, S. Easa

GEOTECHNICAL DATA MANAGEMENT ISSUES FOR TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITIES ................................................................................................................................ 3579

S. Caronna

ANALYSIS OF EFFECTS OF TRUCK TIRE PRESSURE ON FLEXIBLE PAVEMENTS ............ 3589F. Wang, R. B. Machemehl

RATIONALIZING RELIABLE IMPUTATION DURATIONS OF GENETICALLY DESIGNED MODELS BASED ON ALBERTA ROADS ................................................................ 3599

M. Zhong, S.C. Sharma, P.J. Lingras

TRAFFIC DATA IMPUTATION: PRACTICE, STANDARDS, INNOVATION AND PERSPECTIVE ............................................................................................................................... 3609

M. Zhong, S.C. Sharma

PRIVATIZING PUBLIC TRANSPORT SERVICES IN JORDAN ................................................... 3616Mohammad M. Hamed, Said Easa

UNION SUBWAY STATION SECOND PLATFORM PROJECT ................................................... 3625Silvano Florindi, Thomas G. Middlebrook, Mario Nalli

HIGHWAY WORK ZONE STRATEGIES FOR SAFETY ............................................................... 3635X. Ren, B.McCabe, S. Tighe

GOOD, FAST AND CHEAP - THE PAVEMENT FRICTION DATA COLLECTION CONUNDRUM ................................................................................................................................ 3645

S. Goodman, Y. Hassan, D. King, A.O. Abd El Halim

AN EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS OF INTRA-HOUSEHOLD JOINT ACTIVITY-TRAVEL TOURS IN THE JAKARTA METROPOLITAN AREA ................................................................... 3655

S. Yagi, A. Mohammadian

ROLE OF UNEVEN VEHICLE WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION IN CURVE DRIVING........................... 3665L. Syed, Y. Hassan

SAFETY EXPLICIT DESIGN OF FREEWAY SPEED CHANGE LANES ..................................... 3674M. Sarhan, Y. Hassan, A.O. Abd El Halim

DEVELOPMENT OF A BACK-CALCULATION SCHEME FOR FLEXIBLE PAVEMENTS USING MULTI-LAYER ELASTIC SYSTEMS ......................................................... 3684

D. Said, E. Sharaf, O. Osman

INTEGRATING DRIVING SIMULATION AND TRAFFIC SIMULATION: A CASE STUDY ............................................................................................................................................ 3694

J. M. Jenkins, L. R. Rilett

EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN APPROACH TO PAVEMENT RESPONSE EVALUATION .............. 3703K. Kandil, L. Lye

EXISTING PRACTICES FOR MITIGATING ASPHALT PAVEMENT RUTTING AT INTERSECTIONS IN ALBERTA .................................................................................................... 3712

H. R. Soleymani, D. Palsat

PEDESTRIAN SIMULATION-ASSIGNMENT MODEL FOR A HONG KONG MASS TRANSIT RAILWAY STATION - CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION.......................................... 3722

J.Y.S. Lee, W.H.K. Lam

COMPARISON OF TRAVEL CHARACTERISTICS BETWEEN EMERGING SUBURBAN ACTIVITY CENTERS AND DOWNTOWN TORONTO ............................................ 3732

F. Tsang, A.S. Shalaby

MODELLING BUSINESS LOCATION IN TORONTO: ACCESSIBILITY AS THE DETERMINANT .............................................................................................................................. 3742

Flavia W.K. Tsang, Christopher A. Kennedy, Eric J. Miller, Murtaza Haider

MODELING DRIVERS' CHOICE BEHAVIOR: CHALLENGES AND FUTURE NEEDS .............. 3752H. Talaat, B. Abdulhai

LARGE-SCALE MICROSCOPIC SIMULATION MODEL DEVELOPMENT UTILIZING MACROSCOPIC TRAVEL DEMAND MODEL DATA ................................................................... 3761

Jaesup Lee, Michael Hunter, Joonho Ko, Randall Guensler, Hoe Kyoung Kim

A MODEL TO ESTIMATE RIGHT ANGLE ACCIDENTS AT SIGNALIZED INTERSECTIONS ........................................................................................................................... 3771

D. M. Karim

TRAFFIC NETWORK CONDITION MONITORING VIA MOBILE PHONE LOCATION REFERENCING - AN EMERGING OPPORTUNITY...................................................................... 3780

B. Hellinga, L. Fu, H. Takada

NON-AASHTO BASED PAVEMENT DESIGN TOOL USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ........................................................................... 3790

H. Talaat, E. Sharaf, O. Osman

THIN SURFACINGS IN ONTARIO: MAKING SCARCE ROAD MAINTENANCE BUDGETS STRETCH FURTHER .................................................................................................. 3798

L. Uzarowski, M. Maher, D. Waechter

EFFECTIVENESS OF PREDICTIVE MODELS FOR ESTIMATING ASPHALT CONCRETE COMPLEX MODULUS.............................................................................................. 3806

M. Zeghal, Y.E. Adam, H.H. Mohamed

A GUIDE TO ASSESS THE DURABILITY OF 'PLASTIC' MATERIALS USED IN CIVIL ENGINEERING ............................................................................................................................... 3816

D. Kay, E. Blond

THE USE OF GROUND PENETRATING RADAR TO SUPPLEMENT THE FALLING WEIGHT DEFLECTOMETER FOR PAVEMENT EVALUATION .................................................. 3828

Ludomir Uzarowski, Michael Maher, Andrew Balasundaram

INVESTIGATION OF DRIVER BEHAVIOUR AND REACTIONS IN TRAFFIC SAFETY RESEARCH .................................................................................................................................... 3836

A. Tsyganov, R. Machemehl, S. Easa

MACRO-LEVEL COLLISION PREDICTION MODELS FOR EVALUATING NEIGHBOURHOOD TRAFFIC SAFETY........................................................................................ 3846

G.R. Lovegrove, T. Sayed

ANALYSIS OF TRUCK OVERWEIGHTS IN EGYPT .................................................................... 3856Hozayen Hozayen

STRATEGIES FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF URBAN TRAFFIC DEMAND ............................... 3866A.M. Khan

ASPHALT PAVEMENTS WITH INNOVATIVE POLYMER MODIFICATIONS FOR LONG LIFE TIME AND LOW MAINTENANCE COSTS................................................................ 3876

P. Sivapatham, H. J. Beckedahl

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