The goal of this project is to design a greenhouse that can support the snow load of Paxton, Massachusetts and be used for educational purposes at Turn Back Time Farm. This was accomplished by conducting simulations of the distributed snow load on the greenhouse frame. The computer program ANSYS was used to simulate stresses and deformation of the calculated load to determine if the greenhouse would be able to withstand the snow load. Additionally, a scaled-down model of the greenhouse was built in order to physically test the predicted snow load. In all testing and simulations, the greenhouse and the materials used were able to support the load resulting in a structurally stable design for the farm to utilize.

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Creator

• Austraw, Alec P.
• Sherwood, Melissa J.

Subject

• Project-Based Learning
• Environment
• Innovation
• Learning
• Community

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 22676
• E-project-050621-083951

Advisor

• Sabuncu, Ahmet Can

Year

• 2021

Sponsor

• Turn Back Time

Date created

• 2021-05-06

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Mechanical Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2021-08-29