Cheng-Kong (Chris) Wu joined Colin Gordon & Associates as a consultant in the spring of 2007. His activities have focused upon structural design and evaluation, vibration measurements and monitoring, identification of dynamic properties, and sophisticated finite element analysis (FEA) support. His modeling has included both floor systems and whole-building motion.
Prior to CG&A, Chris participated in several 6 Sigma and other consulting projects, including bolted joint analysis, pin joint analysis, meshing projects, and he has performed many inertial, normal mode, and linear and non-linear dynamic FEA analyses.
Education
- Doctor of Philosophy - Engineering Mechanics and Astronautics
University of Wisconsin-Madison - Master of Science - Engineering Mechanics and Astronautics
University of Wisconsin-Madison - Bachelor of Science - Applied Mathematics, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan
Selected Project Experience
- Finite Element Modeling of Buildings and Floors
- Mockup of precast concrete waffle system
- Science building, Georgia State University
- Northrop Grumman Building M3.
- CEITEC Microelectronics Research and Teaching Laboratory
- Fab for confidential client, Taiwan
- Floor Framing Design
- Nanotechnology facility, Notre Dame University
- Field Vibration Evaluations
- University of Utah Neuroscience and Biomedical Technology Research Building
- Georgia Institute of Technology Bullet Building
- West Virginia University, research facility
- Confidential Client, Taiwan
Papers, Presentations and Publications
- Wu, C. C., and M. E. Plesha (2002). Essential boundary condition enforcement in meshless methods: boundary flux collocation method. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering 2002; 53: 499-514.
- Robust Design of a Drive Coupling Mechanism. (2006) Wu, C.C.K. ABAQUS Central Regional User’s Meeting, West Lafayette, Indiana.
- Fuel Sloshing Analysis. (2005) Wu, C.C.K. ABAQUS Central Regional User’s Meeting, West Lafayette, Indiana.
- Element-free Galerkin method in stress analysis. (1999) Industrial Liaison Committee Meeting, Madison, Wisconsin.
Professional Societies
Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
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