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ST Wing Flight 4b

The document outlines a course on aircraft structural design. It details the course specifications, intended learning outcomes, content, teaching methods, assessment, references, and facilities required. The course teaches students to perform preliminary fuselage design and improve the design using finite element analysis.

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University: Cairo

Faculty: Engineering

Department: Aerospace

Course Specifications
Program: Aerospace Engineering
Major Field: Aircraft Structural Design
Department: Aerospace Engineering.
Academic Year Level: Fourth Year Undergraduate
Term: Second
Year of Approval: November, 2007.
A- Basic Information
Title: Aircraft Structural Design
Code: AER403B
Credit Hours: 2
Weekly Hours: Lectures 2, Tutorials 2, Total 4
Prerequisite Courses: AER403A (Structural Design of Flight Vehicles A)
B-Professional Information
1-Overall Aims of Course
Introduce the student to perform a preliminary fuselage design and then improve this
design using the finite element method.
2-Intended Learning Outcomes
A-Knowledge and Understanding
Upon completion of this course the student should be able to:
Calculate the buckling strength of a curved sheet
Calculate the loads and stresses in frames
Analyze the diagonal semi-tension field of curved webs
Perform a preliminary fuselage design and calculate MOS
Improve this design using the finite element method
Design a connection (bolted, riveted and welded)
Understand some important details in airframe design
B-Intellectual Skills
Upon completion of this course the student should be able to:
Perform a fuselage structural design
Checking this design using the finite element method and perform the necessary
modifications
Study of the static and dynamic behavior of a structure using a finite element
model with application to fuselage design
Structure optimization
Design airframe connections
Make the necessary modifications at cutouts

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C-Professional and Practical Skills


Upon completion of this course the student should be able to
Prepare a preliminary fuselage design and analyze the MOS
Use a finite element package to analyze deflections, stresses, and study the static
and dynamic behavior of a structure with application to fuselage
Fitting design
Construction of cutouts
Design optimization
3-Course Contents
Topic
Chapter 1: Buckling strength of curved sheets
Compressive buckling stress of curved sheet panels
Buckling strength of curved sheet panels under combined axial
compression and shear
Compressive buckling stress of curved sheet panels with internal
pressure
Shear buckling stress of curved sheet panels with internal pressure
Ultimate strength of stiffened cylindrical structures, Instability

Lecture Tutorial
Hour
Hour
4
4

Chapter 2: Loads and stresses in frames


Supporting boundary forces on fuselage frames
Types of wing frame construction
Stresses in fuselage frames
Frame loads due to discontinuities in fuselage skin covering

Chapter 3: Diagonal semi-tension field curved web


Analysis of stringer systems in diagonal tension
Allowable stresses (and interactions)
Longeron type system

Chapter 4: Fittings and connections


Economy in fitting design
Fitting margins of safety, special factors
Failure analysis
Design of bolted, riveted and welded connections

Chapter 5: Some important details in airframe construction


Shear and tension clips
Joggled members and fillers
Cutouts in webs or skin panels

Chapter 6: Wing stress analysis


Loads, design considerations and requirements
Effective section at failing load

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Ultimate bending strength of a tapered unsymmetrical fuselage


section
Shear lag influences
Fuselage made up of composite materials
Case study:
Perform a preliminary design of an actual fuselage and improve its
static and dynamic behavior using the finite element method
4-Teaching and Learning Methods
Board instructions
Student discussions
Homework problems
Discussion of exercise problems
Computer laboratory
5-Student Assessment Methods
Reports of exercise problems
Nastran reports
Mid-term exam
Final exam
Assessment Schedule
Assessment 1
At the end of every chapter
Assessment 2
At the mid- term
Assessment 3
At the end of the term
Weighting of Assessments
Reports
9%
Nastran reports
6%
Mid-Term exam
15 %
Oral and lab exam
10 %
Final exam
60 %
6- References
Bruhn, E.F., Analysis and Design of Flight Vehicle Structures, Tri-State.
Jones, R.M., Mechanics of Composite Materials, Scripta.
Ashton, J.E., J.C. Halpin and P.H. Petit, Primer on Composite Material Analysis,
Technomic.
MSC/NASTRAN reference manual

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7-Facilities Required for Teaching and Learning


Board
Exercise sheets
Computer laboratory
Library
Course Coordinator:
Prof. Edward A. Sadek, Professor of Aircraft Structures
Head of Department : Prof. Atef Sherif
Date: November, 2007.

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