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 Aerospace Design - AERO3110
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Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.125 (more info)
 
 
Contact Hours per Week: 6
 
 
Excluded: AERO3101
 
 
Fee Band: 2 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
  

Description

Aerospace vehicle type; characteristics size and performance. Special constraints in the design of aerospace vehicles. Aerospace regulations; regulating bodies, regulation interpretation and application. Design data sources and quality management and control. Stress sheets. Detail design of typical aircraft structure; thin walled metal, composites and fasteners. Introduction to a typical high level computer aided design tool (CATIA). Vehicle loads; balance, gust and manoeuvre. Semi-monocoque and frame structures; torque boxes and fuselage cut-outs. Spacecraft; structure, power and thermal balance and communications. Aircraft and spacecraft system detail design. Design for manufacture and maintenance.


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