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Engineering Structures - ZEIT3500
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Faculty: UNSW@ADFA (Australian Defence Force Academy)
 
 
School:  School of Engineering & Information Technology @ ADFA
 
 
Course Outline: https://gateway.unsw.adfa.edu.au/isas/current_students/outlines/index.html
 
 
Campus: University College Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 5
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: ZACM2022
 
 
Equivalent: ZACM3021
 
 
Fee Band: 2 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

This course extends the concepts of Mechanics of Solids to applications of Structural Mechanics in Aeronautical and Mechanical Engineering. The topics treated will include bending of indeterminate beams and unsymmetric beams, torsion and transverse loading of thin walled and stiffened structures, energy methods of structural analysis, failure analysis of metallic structures, introduction to fracture mechanics and fatigue behaviour.

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