Course

Aerospace Structures - AERO3410

Faculty: Faculty of Engineering

School: School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering

Course Outline: http://www.mech.unsw.edu.au/

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

CSS Contribution Charge: 2 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

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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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