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Aerospace Structures - AERO3410
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Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 6
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: MMAN2400; Exclusion: AERO3400, MECH3400
 
 
Fee Band: 2 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
  

Description

Aircraft layout and loads; open and closed thin walled beams; analysis of fuselage and wing structures. Energy methods including unit load method for deflections. Finite elements; element matrices, assembly and solution for rods and beams; application of a commercial finite element system to problems in two and three dimensions. Fibre reinforced composite materials including analysis of uni-directional and multi-directional laminates. Buckling including buckling of columns, flat and curved plates and stiffened panels; buckling under multi-axial loads. Vibration of single-degree of freedom spring-mass-damper systems, free and forced vibration. Thermal stresses.


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