Introduction to material science. Introduction to elasticity. Strength under combined stresses. Energy methods. Column theory. Unsymmetric bending. Fundamentals of fatigue and fracture.

Prerequisites: MAE 343

Textbooks: Sun, C.T., Mechanics of Aircraft Structures, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1998

• To learn energy methods and theories
• To learn the basics of material science

• Characteristics of Aerospace Structures and Materials

• Torsion of Thin-Walled Beams

• Multi-cell sections

• Open sections

• Flexural Shear Flow

• Symmetric open sections

• Idealization

• Symmetric closed sections
• Multi-cell sections

• Unsymmetric sections
• Buckling of Plates

• Buckling under compression, shear and in-plane bending

• Post buckling and effective-width theory

• Diagonal tension fields

• Thermal Analysis

• Thermal loading in air and space environments

• Thermal strain and stress

• Applications to aerospace structures

• Introduction to Composite Materials

• Concept of anisotropic behavior and systematic reduction to isotropic case

• Micromechanics

• Lamina stress-strain relationships

• Laminate Analysis

3 1-hour sessions