Syllabus
Structural components of aircraft, loads and material selection – introduction to Kirchhoff’s theory of thin plates: bending and buckling of thin plates – unsymmetric bending of beams – bending of open and closed thin walled beams: shear of and torsion of thin walled beams – combined open and closed section beams – structural idealization – introduction to composite materials.
Text Books
Sun, C. T., Mechanics of Aircraft Structures, 2nd ed., John Wiley (2006).
References
1. Megson, T. H. G., Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students, 4th ed., Butterworth-Heinemann (2007).
2. Donaldson, B. K., Analysis of Aircraft Structures: An Introduction, 2nd ed., Cambridge Univ. Press (2008).
3. Bauchau, O. A. and Craig, J. I., Structural Analysis: With Application to Aerospace Structures, Springer (2009).
4. Timoshenko, S. P. and Woinowsky-Krieger, S., Theory of Plates and Shells, 2nd ed., McGraw Hill (1964).
5. Ugural, A. C., Stresses in Plates and Shells, 2nd ed., McGraw Hill (1998).
Course Outcomes (COs):
CO1: Students should be able to use mathematical and physical knowledge to undertake stress and deformation analysis of the basic structural components such as Thin Plates.
CO2: Students should be able to use mathematical and physical knowledge to undertake stress and deformation analysis of the basic structural component such as Thin walled Beams.
CO3: Understand how composite materials differ from isotropic materials & analyse composite materials.
CO4: Students should be able to analyse a typical aerospace component using an FEM software.