Civil Engineering Materials
program overview
Materials Engineering, as a specialty within Civil Engineering, involves
the analysis and investigation of the structure, behaviour and properties,
and usage of all types of materials in Civil Engineering works. Students
who undertake a degree in the Materials program will take departmental
graduate courses in structures, solid mechanics, portland cement and
concrete, and courses from other departments. Such courses constitute
a skeleton program to which other specialized courses that meet both
the requirements of the Materials program and the individual student’s
interests and needs can be added.
MASc and PhD programs are available.
Research
The general emphasis of research in the Materials program is on the relationship
between the structure and the mechanical properties of Civil Engineering
materials, especially portland cement and concrete, timber, and composites.
Some more specific topics of current and planned research include the following:
mechanical properties and durability of portland cement concrete (plain and fibre-reinforced);
permeability of portland cement concrete; shotcrete
(wet and dry processes); shrinkage, cracking
and durability; impact/blast resistance of concrete and fiber reinforced concrete; fracture and deformation of wood; use of fiber reinforced
plastic composites for new construction and repair, and use of recycled
materials in concrete.
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Facilities
Modern and advanced research facilities are available to graduate students
in the Materials program. There is a 500 square metre laboratory devoted
solely to materials research, as well as extensive testing facilities in
the Structures Laboratory. There is also a state-of-the-art shotcrete facility.
Graduate students in the Materials program also have access to other analytical
facilities which include both a transmission and a scanning electron microscope.
The department has excellent computing facilities, including numerous
networked PC's and UNIX computers, and access to other University computing
resources.
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Civil Engineering
Materials Faculty
| Nemkumar Banthia |
Portland cement and concrete and its fiber reinforced composites,
shotcrete, impact, repairs, fiber reinforced plastics, use of recycled
materials. |
Faculty in Related Areas
| Reza Vaziri |
Polymer composite materials, mechanics, finite element analysis,
high strain rate behaviour and impact. |
Active Emeritus Faculty
| Sidney Mindess |
Portland cement and concrete, materials testing, fracture mechanics. |
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