Aerospace Structures - AERO3410
Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
School: School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
Course Outline: http://www.mech.unsw.edu.au/
Campus: Sydney
Career: Undergraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 6
Enrolment Requirements:
Prerequisite: MMAN2400; Exclusion: AERO3400, MECH3400
CSS Contribution Charge: 2 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
This course covers introductory and intermediate topics related to analysis and design of airframes:
Aerospace Materials and their Properties
Aerospace Materials and their Properties
- Lightweight Materials - Alloys and Composites
- Tensors - Stress, Strain, Invariants
- Failure Prediction
- Material Degradation - Fatigue, Corrosion, Wear
- Analysis of Composite Materials
Classical Airframe Analysis
- Airframe Loads
- Stressed Skin Design Philosophy
- Role of Airframe Components
- Thin-walled Approximation
- Structural Idealisation
- Analysis of Indeterminate Trusses
- Bending, Shear and Torsion of Complex Beams
- Detailed Stressing - Joints and Cut-outs
Structural Instability and Aeroelasticity
- Buckling of Columns and Plates
- Stiffened Panel Analysis and Design
- Aeroelasticity - Divergence, Control Reversal and Flutter
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