NAU PCI Big Beam Competition

Welcome to the NAU PCI Big Beam Competition's website for the 2017-2018 academic year. Here you will find all documents and sources relevant to this project, as well as important information about the competition itself.

This individual project is sponsored by TPAC, an architectural and structural precast concrete company based out of Phoenix, AZ.

TPAC

Website: tpacaz.com

The Competition

Website: pci.org

The Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institue (PCI) was founded in 1954 and is a technical institute for the precast/ prestressed concrete structures industry. The PCI Big Beam Competition is a nationwide annual competition open to college level students to participate in between the months of August until June of the following year.

The competition requires that student teams must analyze and determine the structural design and concrete mix porportions for their team's prestressed precast concrete beam. The beam can be no longer than 22 feet and must withstand an unfactored loading of 20 kips, or 20 thousand pounds. The beam is then scored by the following categories:

The Team

Roy Crouch

Project Manager

Majoring in Civil Engineering

Email: rbc53@nau.edu

 

Stephen Gergal

Mix Design Specialist

Majoring in Civil Engineering

Email: sag355@nau.edu

 

Fernando Rojo

Mix Design Specialist

Majoring in Civil Engineering

Email: fr92@nau.edu

 

Brandy Wagoner

Structural Design Specialist

Majoring in Civil Engineering

Email: bw545@nau.edu