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Yahya Kurama, Assistant ProfessorYahya Kurama, Assistant Professor
Richard Christenson, Graduate StudentRichard Christenson, Graduate Student
Tracy Correa, Graduate StudentTracy Correa, Graduate Student
Gang Mei, Graduate StudentGang Mei, Graduate Student
Brian Morgen, Graduate StudentBrian Morgen, Graduate Student
Andrew Jackson Middle SchoolAndrew Jackson Middle SchoolMarch 14, 2001March 14, 2001
• Structure: “any assemblage of materials which is intended to sustain loads”
• Nearly every plant and animal, and nearly all works of man have to sustain forces without breaking, so practically everything is a structure of one type or another.
• Gravity loads (self weight, people, furniture, etc.)• Earth and water pressure• Wind loads• Earthquakes
Structures respond to these dynamic loads, moving, swaying, and ….
• Civil Engineering has many interesting and challenging problems.
• Protecting structures against damaging winds and earthquakes is one of the important jobs of a civil engineer.
http://http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquake.usgs.gov/
U.S. Geological Survey
http://http://wwwneic.cr.usgs.gov/wwwneic.cr.usgs.gov/