_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Objective To utilize Cambridge Engineering Selector (CES) to identify the correct material for use in three

types of joists including: substructure for a light weight military aircraft, floor supports for low income housing and a substructure for an environmentally friendly office building User Needs
1) Light weight aircraft: Minimize mass and maximize fatigue strength 2) Low Income housing: Minimize cost and maintain minimum stiffness of L/360 and support a load of .5ksi/in. in bending 3) Environmentally friendly office building: Minimize embodied energy while maintaining a minimum stiffness of L/360 and support a load of .5ksi/in. in bending

Materials Selection for Floor Joists

Cambridge Engineering Selector Interface. Allows for graphing of material

properties such as Mass vs. Fatigue Strength to identify materials for selection.

Results
The lightweight aircraft floor joists produced five options: three beryllium derivations, diamond, and cyanate ester/HM carbon fiber. Beryllium was removed due to its toxicity and diamond due to its manufacturability/cost. The low income housing results produced cement super sulphate as the best option.

Techniques Used
After choosing the material properties of interest for each application, a Saaty's Scale (below) was used to rank them in order of importance before conducting CES analysis. This allowed for the finding of the correct property to maximize or minimize.

The environmentally friendly office building produced results for three types of Balsa wood as well as aerated concrete. Balsa wood was selected due to its lower embodied energy of production.

Contact Info: aschader@calpoly.edu, Austin Schader