Engineering Mechanics

A New Series

Hi friends, 👋👋

The last couple of months, we have mostly covered structural design topics. However, there are many of you who didn’t study civil or structural engineering in uni. And Structural engineering is based on fundamentals such as engineering mechanics, which can be quite difficult to self-learn.

That’s why we’ll kick off a new series about engineering mechanics, which are taught in the first semesters, but we structural engineers use on a daily basis in our jobs.

💡💡 But to also keep it interesting for the more advanced readers, I’ll also add structural design newsletters in between the mechanics posts. 💡💡

So, we’ll touch base on:

• Static systems

• Static determinacy and indeterminacy

• Types of loads on beams

• Reaction forces

• Calculation of internal forces

• Hand calculations of simply supported beams, cantilever beams, arches and trusses

• How to use beam formulas

• Moment of inertia calculation

As always, comment below or answer this email, if you are interested in a specific topic.

This was it for this week.

We’ll be back with the first newsletter of the new series next week. ✌️✌️

See you there.

Cheers,

Laurin 😎😎