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Straw Bale Seismic Design Capacities 2, Beth Avon, Brittnie Swartchick
Straw Bale Seismic Design Capacities 2, Beth Avon, Brittnie Swartchick
Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering Senior Theses
Straw bale is a sustainable building material that repurposes agricultural waste for use in the structural system of buildings. This material will be used as a component in the lateral force resisting systems of walls, especially helpful in the California seismic environment and under heavy wind loads. The four main components of a post-and-beam method straw bale wall are timber framing, straw bales, wire mesh, and plaster. This report will focus on the design of the exterior plaster and the design of “workhorse” and “strong” walls for simple construction and areas of higher seismic activity, respectively. Our test results will …
Cold Climate Solar Thermal Greenhouse Design, Samuel Health, Ashley Husbands, Cora Lemar, Moriko Tollan
Cold Climate Solar Thermal Greenhouse Design, Samuel Health, Ashley Husbands, Cora Lemar, Moriko Tollan
Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering Senior Theses
The design of a cold climate solar thermal greenhouse was inspired by a trip the design team took to the Denali Education Center (DEC) in Alaska. The DEC expressed the need for a greenhouse because the soil in Alaska is too cold to grow fresh vegetables and fruits during the late Spring and Summer months. A solar array located on the campus, currently used to heat Water, produces an excess amount of heat that needs to be directed elsewhere. By heating the inside of the greenhouse through the solar array, the DEC will be able to extend its growing season …
Design And Evaluation Of A Home- Scale Arsenic Removal System, Megan Alferness, Alexandria Casares
Design And Evaluation Of A Home- Scale Arsenic Removal System, Megan Alferness, Alexandria Casares
Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering Senior Theses
The problem of arsenic contamination affects millions of people worldwide. A home-scale arsenic removal system could provide families in Nepal access to clean drinking water. It would also reduce the risk of adverse health issues that are associated with ingesting arsenic contaminated water. Our experiments show that using electrocoagulation is an effective method of removing arsenic from water. We were able to get the level of arsenic below 10 ppb in 60 minutes of treatment using various system configurations. We identified several parameters that affect the treatment process, the most important being the charge loading, or the amount of charge …
Bannan Engineering Laboratories Redesign, Pia Johanna Candelaria, John-Carlo Guevara, Andy Chi Truong
Bannan Engineering Laboratories Redesign, Pia Johanna Candelaria, John-Carlo Guevara, Andy Chi Truong
Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering Senior Theses
Due to the growing student body within Santa Clara University's School of Engineering, an increase in classrooms, laboratories, offices, and study spaces is needed to for student engineering resources. The objective of the Bannan Engineering Laboratories Redesign is to provide a preliminary structural design and corresponding construction management schedule and budget as an alternative to the existing single-story Bannan Engineering Laboratories building. The proposed design consists of three floors of versatile spaces: one basement and two stories above ground. The 160-ft by 68-ft building features eleven hybrid classroom/laboratories in the basement, seven standard classrooms on the first floor, fourteen faculty …
California Highway 1 Improvement Project Northern Monterey County, Ca, Marie Adams, Nick George, Shaun Shapiro
California Highway 1 Improvement Project Northern Monterey County, Ca, Marie Adams, Nick George, Shaun Shapiro
Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering Senior Theses
This project focuses on improving traffic flow and safety on a 4-mile segment of California Highway 1 between Moss Landing and Castroville in Monterey County. Improvements include partial widening, signalization, and intersection upgrades.
Mission San Jose Well Initiative, Mary Foran, Nonda Kozas, Daniel Lafranchi
Mission San Jose Well Initiative, Mary Foran, Nonda Kozas, Daniel Lafranchi
Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering Senior Theses
The objective of this community base project is to develop an irrigation system for a community garden that is sustainable and watered by one of the three wells on the Dominican Sisters' Convent property located in Fremont, California. The overall goal of this project is to have a submersible solar powered pump, which will pump water to a tank that will store water and function on a timer. This tank will then deliver water to the community garden as well as other areas on the property. This project focuses on both an environmental and water resources aspects of design work. …
Life Water, Colin Boyle, Scott Hanson
Life Water, Colin Boyle, Scott Hanson
Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering Senior Theses
A rainwater harvesting and treatment system was designed and constructed for the Hope for Life Ministry's home for street boys, located outside of Kigali, Rwanda. This system included two different components: a showering system and a potable system. The design and construction of the shower system utilized the roof space of the property's main building to capture water in two separate 10,000-liter tanks on either side of the building. Manual hand pumps were then installed in shower rooms located on either side of the building and were connected to the tanks with piping. 55-gallon barrels were placed in the shower …
Rainwater Catchment System At Walden West Outdoor Science School, Melissa Crapps, Jessica Bolanos, Alessandro Folchi
Rainwater Catchment System At Walden West Outdoor Science School, Melissa Crapps, Jessica Bolanos, Alessandro Folchi
Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering Senior Theses
Walden West Outdoor Science School is a science camp in the hills of Saratoga where children learn science as it relates to the environment and the importance of using sustainable practices. A full-scale bioswale was designed to capture and reuse the rainwater runoff from the main parking lot and lodge on the site. To encourage future implementation of the design as well as to provide a learning tool for future science camps, a model bioswale was built using materials required in actual bioswale construction. A synthetic water sample was developed to mimic the characteristics of rainwater runoff. The synthetic sample …
Design Of A Low-Impact Wastewater Collection And Treatment System For Siladen Island In Indonesia, Kyle Astill, Charles Rymer, Joseph Sarmiento
Design Of A Low-Impact Wastewater Collection And Treatment System For Siladen Island In Indonesia, Kyle Astill, Charles Rymer, Joseph Sarmiento
Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering Senior Theses
Untreated wastewater is highly destructive to human health and the environment. Choosing an island location, Pulau Siladen, which has no wastewater treatment solution, the design team embarked upon designing a centralized collection and treatment system to treat the island population's wastewater, in the interests of preserving human health and the sensitive coral reefs surrounding the island. This system features a gravity sewer system, flow equalization, sequencing batch reactor, sand filter and disinfection as part of the treatment process. This project will emphasize the reduction in use of highly specialized and manufactured components, in an effort to minimize the economic, environmental …
Geotechnical Report For Appalachian Community Health And Disaster Readiness: Interprofessional Practice, Ali Leib
Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects
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Installation And Field Testing Of High Performance Repair Materials For Pavements And Bridge Decks, Andrew Lesak
Installation And Field Testing Of High Performance Repair Materials For Pavements And Bridge Decks, Andrew Lesak
ETD Archive
Pavement patching is a common maintenance activity in the state of Ohio, due to numerous freeze-thaw cycles. The Ohio Transportation (ODOT) has a need for durable, more permanent high performing pavement and bridge deck materials that allow for a faster repair and for user safety. New or proprietary products were chosen, installed, and monitored in order to specify for use in future ODOT construction, based on the field performance of the products. The objective of this study was to document the investigation, installation, and field testing of the previously chosen high performance patching materials. The investigation determined the proper field …
Developing Improved Bridge Parapet Designs, Lauren A. Hedges
Developing Improved Bridge Parapet Designs, Lauren A. Hedges
ETD Archive
The Ohio Department of Transportation has identified that premature parapet cracking is a significant problem in Northeast Ohio. Background research related to concrete cracking and parapet cracking was conducted to determine possible causes of the premature cracking that ODOT has discovered. To further look at possible causes of this cracking, current ODOT bridge parapet practices were reviewed. In addition to ODOT practices, ten other state DOTs were surveyed to identify the bridge parapet practices used. These practices include the parapet design characteristics, construction joint spacing and depth, and the class of concrete used for construction. Various differences among all of …
Dynamic Testing Procedures For Performance Assessment Of Nuclear Fuel Rods, Travis M. Adams
Dynamic Testing Procedures For Performance Assessment Of Nuclear Fuel Rods, Travis M. Adams
Honors Theses and Capstones
Existing transportation probabilistic risk assessment for spent nuclear fuel in the United States is based on short-term (decades) on-site storage at power plants before transport. Updated risk assessment estimates will be required as extended on-site storage (centuries) and higher burnup levels in fuel become standard. Nuclear fuel rods under these two conditions are more brittle than rods from short-term storage and intermediate burnup due to several mechanisms, including hydrogen embrittlement. Development of risk assessment requires characterizations of dynamic behavior of these degraded rods under transportation scenarios. This Honors thesis provides an initial literature review for a larger project that will …
Pile-Soil Interaction In Unsaturated Soil Conditions, Megan Hamilton
Pile-Soil Interaction In Unsaturated Soil Conditions, Megan Hamilton
Honors Theses and Capstones
The degree of saturation has been proven to significantly affect geotechnical engineering designs for foundations. The changes in water content will influence the way the soil behaves, including its strength and stiffness parameters. These characteristics were analyzed for a uniform silty sand by developing P-Y curves, which relate lateral loading to lateral deformations. These P-Y curves were input into FB-Multipier, a software developed by the Bridge Software Institute. The software is capable of generating deformations as a result of user-defined loading cases. The results indicated that the middle range of degrees of saturation produced the least amount of deformation. This …