Honors Theses
Date of Award
Spring 5-10-2025
Document Type
Undergraduate Thesis
Department
Civil Engineering
First Advisor
Hunain Alkhateb
Second Advisor
Grace Rushing
Third Advisor
Chris Mullen
Relational Format
Dissertation/Thesis
Abstract
The building for the University of Mississippi civil engineering senior design class was designed and analyzed. The building is in Oxford Mississippi. The current address according to the Lafayette Parcel is 825 Sisk Avenue Suite 200. The floor plan, column, and beam design were performed based on engineering judgment and industry standards. The dead, live, snow, rain, and roof live loads were calculated to be 13.3, 50, 20, 27.51, and 20 psf respectively. The building model was created in SAP2000, which was used to generate all loads and load combinations. An analysis was performed to determine the critical loads on the steel members. The AISC Steel Manual was used to design the members with the beams being W10x22, first floor girders being W14x68, second floor girders being W24x76, and the columns being W14x61. The connections between beams and girder was designed to be a double angle pin connection was using 3-bolt rows, 1” diameter bolts, and ¼” thick angles. The connection between girders and columns were designed to be a bolted stiffened end plate moment connection. A seismic analysis was performed on the building using the equivalent lateral force method to determine that the maximum moment experienced by a girder is 63.31 kip-ft. The time history method was performed to determine that the maximum moment experienced is 139.46 kip-ft. A modal analysis was performed using SAP2000 and Matlab to determine that the building stiffness is approximately 461.31 kip/in, the mode 1 natural period is 0.6555s, and the mode 1 natural frequency is 1.5253 hertz. The floor deflection was calculated to be 0.2263 inches for floor one and 0.2670 inches for floor two.
Recommended Citation
McDade, Ander P., "Civil Engineering Capstone Building Design and Seismic Analysis" (2025). Honors Theses. 3311.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/hon_thesis/3311
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