Course
UndergraduateSemester
ElectivesSubject Code
AE462Subject Title
Advanced Aerospace StructuresSyllabus
Description of essential features of aircraft, rocket and spacecraft structures – type of loads on flight structures – bending, shear and torsion of open and closed thin-walled beams – monocoque, stiffened plate, isogrid and sandwich constructions – idealization and stress analysis of typical aerospace structural components – pressurized structures – stress discontinuities – effects of cut-outs – effects of boundary conditions in open and closed section beams – structural fatigue.
Text Books
Megson, T. H. G., Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students, 4th ed., Butterworth-Hein-emann (2007).
References
1. Timoshenko, S. P. and Goodier, J. N., Theory of Elasticity, 3rd ed., McGraw Hill (1970).
2. Timoshenko, S. P. and Woinowsky-Krieger, S., Theory of Plates and Shells, 2nd ed., McGraw Hill (1964).
3. Bruhn, E. F., Analysis and Design of Flight Vehicle Structures, 2nd ed., Jacobs Publishing Inc.(1973).