[PCI Big Beam Competition]
NAU PCI 2022 BeamWorks
Project Purpose
Big Beam competition is held by the Precast/ Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI) to challenge up and coming practicing engineers to design a beam given constraints. Participants will understand the development of prestressed concrete beams. Teams will analyze and predict their beam's behavior of cracking, ultimate strength, and deflection.
Client
Precast/ Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI) hosts the Big Beam competition. NAU has competed in their competition for 15 plus years.
Sponsor
TPAC sponsored and fabricated the teams prestressed beam. They are a structural precast company located in Phoenix, AZ.