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Structural Analysis 45-136: Instructor: Hassan Haddadpour

This course covers structural analysis of aerospace structures under different loads. Topics include stress analysis, energy methods, thin-walled structures, and matrix methods. The course aims to familiarize students with analyzing airframe components like fuselages, wings, and frames.

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Structural Analysis 45-136: Instructor: Hassan Haddadpour

This course covers structural analysis of aerospace structures under different loads. Topics include stress analysis, energy methods, thin-walled structures, and matrix methods. The course aims to familiarize students with analyzing airframe components like fuselages, wings, and frames.

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Structural Analysis 45-136

Instructor: Hassan Haddadpour


[email protected]

Description:
This course will address issues related to aerospace structural analysis under different
loadings.

Course Objectives
This course is designed to familiarize the students with the airframe structural
analysis. After a review of some topics in strength of materials, the students will learn
some new topics such as energy methods and matrix methods in structural analysis. In
the main part of the course the students will be familiarized with the airframe
structures and will learn how to analyze thin-walled structures under different loads.

Syllabus
Introduction

Stress
Equations of equilibrium
Principal stresses
Strain
Compatibility equations
Principal strains
Stressstrain relationships
Experimental measurement of surface strains

Energy Methods of Structural Analysis

Elastic strain energy


Virtual work method
Deflections by virtual work method
Unit load method
Elastic energy methods
Castiglianos theorems

Basics of Airframe Structures

Materials of aircraft construction


Loads on structural components
Function of structural components
Fabrication of structural components

Stress Analysis of Thin-Walled Structures

Bending of open and closed section beams


Neutral axis
Deflection due to bending

Approximations for thin-walled sections


General stress strain and displacement relations for open and single cell
closed section thin-walled beams
Shear of open section beams
Shear of closed section beams
Torsion of closed section beams
Analysis of combined open and closed sections
Structural idealization

Stress Analysis of Aircraft Components

Fuselage
Wing
Frame and rib

Matrix Methods (Finite Element Method) of Structural Analysis

Stiffness matrix for elastic springs


Matrix analysis of pin-joined frameworks
Stiffness matrix for uniform beams

Course outcome
Some of the immediate outcomes of this course for students taking it will be:
1. Familiarity with the basics of elasticity
2. Familiarity with the structural elements of an airplane
3. Understanding the basics of aircraft structural analysis

Text Book
T. H. G. Megson, Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students (Third Edition), Arnold
Publishers, 1999.

Other References
1. Bruhn, Analysis & Design of Flight Vehicle Structures, Jacobs & Associates, Inc.
1973.
2. Perry D. J., Azar, J. J., Aircraft Structures, McGraw-Hill, 1982.
3. Michael C. Y. Niu, Airframe Structural Design: Practical Design Information and
Data on Aircraft Structures, Conmilit Press Ltd, 1999.

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