FLUID MECHANICS (ENCE 201): Fluid Statics
Understanding Fluid Statics and Hydrostatic Forces
This chapter, Fluid Statics, deals with fluids at rest and the forces acting on them. Understanding fluid statics is essential for civil engineers as it forms the basis for designing hydraulic structures like dams, gates, and tanks, and for analyzing stability in floating bodies.
The chapter covers hydrostatic forces on plane and curved surfaces, pressure diagrams, buoyancy and Archimedes principle, stability of submerged and floating bodies, metacentric height determination, and liquids in relative equilibrium.
For civil engineering applications such as dam design, reservoir construction, ship stability analysis, and hydraulic structure design, knowledge of fluid statics helps in calculating pressure forces, ensuring structural stability, and designing efficient hydraulic systems.
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