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Breadth Topics: 

Structural Breadth 

By adding a prefabricated kitchen pods into the slabs, the load on the structural system could increase. A structural analysis will be performed  to analyze the effects the kitchen pods has on the slabs. The goal of this structural breadth analysis is to ensure that the slabs has the floor load capacity to support the kitchen pods. If a larger floor load capacity has been determined to be necessary for depth analysis II, a redesign of the floor slabs will be performed to reflect the change in load, cost and associated work.

Acoustic Breadth 

The acoustical breadth analysis is based of depth analysis IIl; prefabrication. This analysis will compare the STC between the original site-built kitchen and the proposed analysis of prefabricating kitchen pods. Acting as a mixed use/residential building this analysis will also evaluate the level of sound transmission between apartments to determine if the STC rating of the apartments meet the minimal requirement.

Revised Proposal - 01/14/2019

Proposal - 12/07/2018

Senior Thesis Main Page

Penn State 

AE Department

AE Computer Labs

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*Note: While great efforts have been taken to provide accurate and complete information on the pages of CPEP, please be aware that the information contained herewith is considered a work‐in progress for this thesis project. Modifications and changes related to the original building designs and construction methodologies for this senior thesis project are solely the interpretation of Nadine N. Rajab. Changes and discrepancies in no way imply that the original design contained errors or was flawed. Differing assumptions, code references, requirements, and methodologies have been incorporated into this thesis project; therefore, investigation results may vary from the original design.

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