Northern Arizona University Concrete Canoe 2019

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Project Background

The National Concrete Canoe Competition (NCCC) is an annual competition that calls upon engineering students apart of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) to design and build a working canoe out of concrete. The goal of the competition is to “gain hands-on, practical experience and leadership skills by working with concrete mix designs and project management [1]”. This competition helps creates a strong student faculty bond as well allowing the students to ask clarifying questions to help strengthen their knowledge and understanding of concrete mix design. The 2020 Rules and Regulations break up the scoring into four different categories; Technical Proposal, Technical Presentation, Final Product Prototype and the Race Demonstration. The NCCC is broken up into 19 different regional conferences.

Sponsors/Clients

Northern Arizona University Branch of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) - Contact Carl Wilson, ASCE Chapter President - (crw339@nau.edu)

Mark Lamer - (mark.lamer@nau.edu)

Team Information

Stephan Henderson - sgh59@nau.edu - Civil Engineer - Hull Design Captain

Carl Wilson - crw339@nau.edu - Civil Engineer - Structural Design Captain

Conrad Senior - cps96@nau.edu - Civil Engineer - Mix Design Captain

Kristen Rasmussen - klr374@nau.edu - Civil Engineer - Project Manager

Logan Grijalva - lpg37@nau.edu - Civil Engineer - QA/QC

Technical Advisor

Taylor Layland - tlayland272@gmail.com

Last Updated

April 20th, 2020

Project Information

Project Location

Pacific Southwest Conference (PSWC), California State University, Fullerton

Project Constraints

Pacific Southwest Conference 2020 Rules and Regulations are attached below. These are the constraints that the canoe must follow.
PSWC 2020 Rules and Regulations

Due to COVID-19, Conference at Fullerton Was cancelled. The only item that was considered for placement was the Technical Report which is present in the Document Repository.

Northern Arizona Univeristy placed 9th Place out of 18 schools.

Tasks

The Project Scope Tasks are provided within the attached link.
Project Scope Document

Design Alternatives

The canoe hull types that were considered was a "V" Shaped and a rounded bottom hull. The team decided to utilize the stability of the rounded hull shape for the final deisgn. the canoe was just under 18 feet in length with a width of 2 and a half feet, and a calculated weight of 160 lbs.

Details of Final Design

Shown Below is the Final Construction Plans for the 2019-2020 Concrete Canoe.

Documents

Document Repository

Final Proposal
Proposal Presentation
Northern Arizona University MTDS Document
Northern Arizona University Conference Paper
30% Presentation (Including Mix Design)
60% Presentation (Including Hull Design and Structural Design)
90% Presentation (Includes 30% and 60%, with Construction)
Final Presentation for 486C

Project Contacts

Stephan Henderson - sgh59@nau.edu - Hull Design Captain

Carl Wilson - crw339@nau.edu - Structural Design Captain

Conrad Senior - cps96@nau.edu - Mix Design Captain

Kristen Rasmussen - klr374@nau.edu - Project Manager

Logan Grijalva - lpg37@nau.edu - QA/QC

References

[1] "National Concrete Canoe Competition," ASCE, [Online]. Available: https://www.asce.org/event/2020/concrete-canoe/. [Accessed 25 September 2019].

Side Note

"No matter how this semester ends, this team was a solid unit and it was a privilage to work besides every single person" -Stephan Henderson

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