Aerospace Structures

Undergraduate

In this course, students will become familiar with the loads acting on aircraft and its individual parts, learn how to choose appropriate structural idealizations, and perform stress analysis of airframe parts. The following topics will be considered: parts of an airframe, their function and loads transfer between major structural elements; airframe loads; airframe as a thin-walled stiffened beam: bending of thin- walled beams, shear of thin-walled beams, torsion of thin-walled beams; structural idealization of the airframe; stress analysis of wing spars and box beams; stress analysis of fuselages; stress analysis of wings. (Prerequisite: MECH-3211.) (3 lecture, 1 tutorial hours a week.)