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Title:

Towards Efficient Steel Construction: Redesign, Reduce, and Reuse Strategies for Corrugated Web Plate Girders

Agreement Number:

1028391

Agreement Value:

$793,100.00

Agreement Date:

Mar 26, 2025 - Mar 31, 2028

Description:

To address national housing needs through a net-zero emissions lens, this Project adopts a three-pronged approach—Redesign, Reduce, and Reuse—to enhance the sustainability and resilience of corrugated web steel girder (CWG) construction in Canada. In this approach, ‘Redesign’ targets efficiency in material usage and integrates sustainability from the early design stages. ‘Reduce’ & ‘Reuse’ focuses on modular CWG-column connections, enabling easy assembly/disassembly to minimize cost and downtime, and facilitating member reuse post-seismic events. The research will employ numerical simulations, experimental testing, and machine learning models to predict CWG behaviour under critical limit states (e.g., bending, shear, bearing) and enhance the seismic resilience of CWG-column connections. A reliability-based assessment framework will be developed to ensure compliance with safety margins under both service and extreme conditions, and fragility analyses quantify damage risks to inform post-disaster repair and reuse strategies. By combining structural innovation with circular economy principles, this Project contributes to low-carbon steel construction practices.

Organization:

National Research Council Canada

Expected Results:

In the short term, anticipated outcomes will be strengthened collaborations across industry, academia, and government to support research excellence. In the medium term, anticipated outcomes will be the development of new and potentially disruptive technologies with collaborators. In the long term, find collaborative solutions to public policy challenges and create stronger innovation systems.

Location:

Hamilton, Ontario, CA L8S 4L8

Reference Number:

172-2024-2025-Q4-1028391

Agreement Type:

Grant

Report Type:

Grants and Contributions

Recipient Business Number:

119035988

Recipient Type:

Academia

Recipient's Legal Name:

McMaster University

Federal Riding Name:

Hamilton West--Ancaster--Dundas

Federal Riding Number:

35039

Program:

Collaborative Science, Technology and Innovation Program - Collaborative R&D Initiatives

Program Purpose:

Collaborate on multiparty research and development programs to catalyze transformative, high-risk, high-reward research with the potential for game-changing scientific discoveries and technological breakthroughs in priority areas.

NAICS Code:

541710