Welcome to Engineering Statics! You are embarking on the exciting journey of engineering and this course is the first big stop along the route. Through this course, we will instill the needed skills and knowledge to successfully navigate through various future courses such as dynamics, fluid mechanics, mech anics of solids, structural analysis, and many more! All of these courses take root in the lessons you will be learning over this semester.
Engineering statics is a subject matter that revolves around the discussion of forces and the systems they impact. How are forces applied? What do forces do to the system? Why are certain forces present? Through this course we hope to answer all of these questions and share with you the many ways in which we can use math and physics based approaches to solve a myriad of problems.
Dr. Wong is a structural engineer broadly focused on seismic design of critical facilities.
Her doctorate research at UC Berkeley investigated the applicability of seismic isolation and supplemental viscous damping to nuclear power plants with focus on seismic resilience and safety. The work identified isolation parameters for the optimization of design to produce high performance levels of both structural response and secondary systems. After receiving her PhD, Dr. Wong began a post-doctoral fellowship at Lawrence National Laboratory focusing on developing a modern computational framework for the nonlinear seismic analysis of Department of Energy nuclear facilities and systems. This work seeks to expand the understanding of soil structure interaction for these structures and the means of modeling this behavior both theoretically and experimentally. In addition to her research experience, Dr. Wong also has worked for the public and private engineering sectors in the areas of water infrastructure, transportation, data systems, and project management.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Free Body Diagrams
Chapter 3 Vector Math
Chapter 4 Moments
Chapter 5 Equilibrium
Chapter 6 Method of Joints
Chapter 7 Method of Sections
Chapter 8 Centroids
Chapter 9 Distributed Loads
Chapter 10 Shear and Moment Diagrams
Chapter 11 Friction
Chapter 12 Fluid Statics
Chapter 13 Moments of Inertia