Report Title

12-100 Intro to CEE

By

Group Group Group Group Group

Member Member Member Member Member

1 2 3 4 5

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 March 20, 2014

Executive Summary
The Executive Summarys purpose is to provide an executive with sufficient information to make a decision without reading the entire report. As such, it needs to concisely summarize the content of the entire report. You cannot use figures or tables in this section, and it has to be able to stand on its own, so you cannot reference anything in the report. The Executive Summary may not exceed one page. The Executive Summary needs to briefly summarize the following: Project objectives Project execution how you satisfied the objectives Results of the project Project assessment how well the results satisfied the objectives Conclusions

You are allowed, and encouraged, to pull good sentences and paragraphs from elsewhere in the report and assemble and edit them here to create the Executive Summary.

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Table of Contents
Executive Summary....................................................................................................................................... ii 1.0 1.1 2.0 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.4.1 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Introduction ...................................................................................................................................... 1 Team Member Contributions.................................................................................................... 1 Member Strength.............................................................................................................................. 1 Structural Design ............................................................................................................................... 1 Alternatives Considered ............................................................................................................ 2 Description of Selected Alternative .......................................................................................... 2 Choices Made ............................................................................................................................ 3 Structural Safety Calculations ................................................................................................... 3 Mean and Standard Deviation .............................................................................................. 3

Discussion and Conclusions .............................................................................................................. 4 Test Results ............................................................................................................................... 4 Discussion of Tradeoffs ............................................................................................................. 4 Project Summary ....................................................................................................................... 4 Conclusions and Recommendations ......................................................................................... 4 Truss Calculations.............................................................................................................. A-1 If needed ............................................................................................................................B-1 If needed ............................................................................................................................ C-1

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1.0 INTRODUCTION
This document has two primary purposes. The first is to introduce you to a professional report format, the second is to provide you with a template to create a professional report. The document has comments throughout, which you can see by selecting Final Show Markup in the Tracking section of the Review tab in Word. To use this document as a template for your report, simply replace the existing words with the appropriate ones for your report. The introduction section serves as just that. It must inform the reader about the project objectives and the motivation for doing the project. What is the problem you have to solve? What do you expect to learn from the project? Why are you doing it? The introduction also needs to briefly present the organization of the report sections that follow.

1.1

TEAM MEMBER CONTRIBUTIONS

You need to describe the role of each team member in completing the project.

2.0 MEMBER STRENGTH

Present your strength measurement data in a table. Also present the statistics provided by the project manager for the entire class. It would be interesting if you compared your mean and standard deviation with that of the entire class. You also need to present your statistical analysis of the data, how you determined the allowable stress you used in the project, and how that satisfies the criteria presented in the handout. Sketches of the distribution with the applicable part shaded will be helpful here as they were in the homework, to demonstrate your understanding of the problem.

3.0 STRUCTURAL DESIGN

In this section, describe the alternatives you considered for the final design. Sketches showing all the alternatives considered will make it easier to describe each alternative, and the differences among the alternatives. It will be helpful to present the differences between the alternatives here, so that you can easily refer to them in the Discussion and Conclusions section.

In addition to the description of the alternatives, you also need to provide Engineering description of selected truss (including sketch) showing the bar forces for the final design Truss calculations (hand-written on graph paper acceptable) these can be provided in an Appendix, and typically will be Description of the member design and construction choices A summary of the structural safety calculations for the final report Provide truss cost in bar-inches

3.1

ALTERNATIVES CONSIDERED

You could use a separate section to describe the alternatives your group considered.

3.2

DESCRIPTION OF SELECTED ALTERNATIVE

This section includes a sketch of the selected truss showing the bar forces, and a table showing the truss cost in bar-inches. Figure 1 is an example of a truss sketch, created electronically. Figure 2 is an example of a truss sketch that was scanned, converted to a .jpg file, and then inserted in the document. Either approach is acceptable. All figures must have captions, and for figures, the typical convention is to place the caption below the figure.
70 kips

B
130 kips

100 kips

100 kips

D
20 kips
20 5 kips

15 5 kips

1 5 ft

20 5 kips

55 kips

40 kips

F
55 5 kips

1 5 ft A
110 kips

50 kips

20 kips

30 ft
Tension

30 ft

30 ft

Compression

Figure 1: Selected truss alternative with bar forces. Joints A and B are the supports, and loads are applied at Joints D, E, and F. The sign convention for the bar forces is shown below the truss.

Figure 2: Selected Alternative with bar forces

In a table, separately list the number of single bars used, the number of joints, the number of splices, and the number of strands in your sling.
Table 1: Summary of Alternatives Considered

Alternate

No. of Bars

Bar Inches

No. of Joints

Bar Inches

No. of Splices

Bar Inches

No. of Strands

Bar Inches

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3.3

CHOICES MADE

This is a suggested heading, it may not be necessary.

3.4

STRUCTURAL SAFETY CALCULATIONS

3.4.1 Mean and Standard Deviation

4.0 DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS

4.1 TEST RESULTS

Present the test results here. Did your truss succeed or fail? Was the instructor able to walk the entire length of the plank? A photo here would be helpful in illustrating the test.

4.2

DISCUSSION OF TRADEOFFS

In this section you will discuss the results and how they compare with the expected results. You need to make a quantifiable assessment of the difference between the two, that is, percent difference or some other measure. Saying they are very different is not enough, or one is much larger than the other. You can also discuss the way the material deformed or failed, depending on how far we took it. A discussion of any points brought out in the lecture or the lab session about the material and its expected behavior would also be useful here. This section should also tie the experimental results back to the theory section.

4.3 4.4

PROJECT SUMMARY CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

Summarize the significant results here, and discuss how well your truss satisfied the project objectives.

Appendix A

Truss Calculations

A-1

Appendix B

If needed

B-1

Appendix C

If needed

C-1