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Structural Design Of The 2013 Santa Clara University Solar Decathlon 'Radiant House', Katherine Mckenzie, Mey-Ling Leon
Structural Design Of The 2013 Santa Clara University Solar Decathlon 'Radiant House', Katherine Mckenzie, Mey-Ling Leon
Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering Senior Theses
The Structural Team for the Santa Clara University Solar Decathlon 2013 Radiant House achieved the task of designing a structurally operative, yet efficient, innovative, and sustainable house that satisfies the needs of everyone from Team Radiant House. The loadings to be considered in the structural design were: dead load, live load, wind load, seismic load, and roof load. The house design implements a classic system of joists, beams, studs, and shear walls to transfer loads to the piers, and finally to the foundations, in combination with a steel framing system to direct loads, increase stiffness and simplify connections for ease …