Characteristics of aircraft structures and materials, introduction to elasticity, torsion, bending and flexural shear, flexural shear flow in thin-walled sections, elastic bucking, failure theories. Variational principles and energy methods, analysis of composite laminates, loads on aircraft, basic aeroelasticity.
Text books:
Sun, C.T., Mechanics of Aircraft Structures, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 2006.
Megson, T.H.G., Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students, Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford, 1999.
Wallerstein, D.V., Variational Approach to Structural Analysis, John Wiley and Sons, 2001.
Shames, I.H., and Dym, C.L., Energy and Finite Element Methods in Structural Mechanics, Taylor and Francis, 1991.
Prerequlsltes:
None
Instructors:
Kartik Venkatraman, D. Roy Mahapatra, Dineshkumar Harursampath and Suhasini Gururaja
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