Research was conducted on the materials the ASCE Concrete Canoe Rules and Regulations allow each team to use for their mix design. After capital and material fundraising, it was concluded that Portland Cement Type I and Silica Fume would be used as our cementitious materials, Poraver (0.5-1.0mm) and LS300 Cenospheres would be used as our aggregates, and Sikament 686 and Sika Air (air entrainer) would be used as our admixtures. Our goal was to create ten applicable mix designs that would be strength oriented, yet lightweight. To ensure these qualities were maintained, the density of the mix must be between 60.4-64.4 lbs/ft³. Ten mix designs were created with the specified density on a mix design excel spreadsheet. The materials are in the process of being donated to our team so testing and mixing our designs can be completed.

Our hull design has made a lot of progress in the past couple of weeks. The hull is being designed in the program Maxsurf. We are finalizing the dimensions of the canoe this week. We started with one main asymmetrical design in Maxsurf and manipulate the length and beam for alternative designs. We are testing our canoe designs with three different lengths and three different beams. The dimensions are tested in Maxsurf’s resistance software. The resistance software outputs a resistance vs. speed graph and our canoe dimensions will be selected by the end of the week based on the graph with the lowest resistance.