Welcome to Shawn Jones's AE Senior Thesis e-Portfolio
Thesis Proposal
The proposal objective for the Hershey Academic Support Center is to research and examine the moment connections used throughout the building. For this proposal, the different levels of restraint will be specifically determined and then used to see if the member sizes given by the original plans can be changed in size.
The first breadth proposal will focus on specific cost comparison of the current lateral system against other lateral options. A second cost issue that connects the two breadth topics is the cost of the fire system before and after the slab thickness increase.
The second breadth proposal will take the current fire system of 2.5" Lightweight concrete slab with spray on cementitious fireproofing and change it to a 3.5" slab with no fireproofing to see how this is advantageous.