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ENGR 111 Post-Activity MATLAB 2

This document outlines two tasks for an individual MATLAB assignment. Task 1 involves writing a program to compute and plot drag force and induced drag force values for different aircraft speeds. Key equations and parameter values are provided. Task 2 involves researching material properties, plotting the relationships between density, Young's modulus, and melting point using subplot, and analyzing the results. Files with the computed values and plots are to be submitted.

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ENGR 111 Post-Activity MATLAB 2

This document outlines two tasks for an individual MATLAB assignment. Task 1 involves writing a program to compute and plot drag force and induced drag force values for different aircraft speeds. Key equations and parameter values are provided. Task 2 involves researching material properties, plotting the relationships between density, Young's modulus, and melting point using subplot, and analyzing the results. Files with the computed values and plots are to be submitted.

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ENGR 111

Post-Activity MATLAB 2
INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT: See the course syllabus for a definition of what constitutes an
individual assignment.
Task 1 (of 2)
OBJECTIVE: Practice using matrices and plotting functions in MATLAB.
Description:
The company you are interning for has created a new aircraft design but they need to do some
computations in order to verify the designs performance. They have called for your expertise in
aeronautics and Matlab to create a program that will compute and plot the drag force, as well as the
induced drag component for different values of V (speed). Since you are now in AAE 626 (Turbulence
and Turbulence Modeling), you are a little rusty on your basic equations. After a look through your
thorough AAE 251 notes, these are the equations that you think you will need:
Cl = L / (0.5 * * V2 * S) (Equation for coefficient of lift)
D0 = 0.5 * * V2 * S * Cd0 (Equation for parasitic drag force)
Di = k1 * Cl2 * 0.5 * * V2 * S (Equation for induced drag)
D = D0 + Di (Equation for total drag force)
You realize that your plots will have to be: speed on the x-axis and total drag force and induced drag
force on the y-axis. You are given the following values:
AR = 3 (aspect ratio)
Cd0 = 0.018 (parasitic drag coefficient)
k1 = 0.09896 ( a useful coefficient)

e = 0.9 (efficiency factor)


S = 610 ft^2 (surface area)

= 1.066E^(-3) slugs/ft^3 (density)


L = 1000 lb (lift generated)

Since this is a general aviation aircraft, you will only need to plot for speeds from 10 ft/s to 350 ft/s with
increments of 5ft/s. The aircraft is flying at constant altitude and level flight so you do not need to worry
about changing density or lift. No inputs are needed; you should hard code all the values.
The graph you need to deliver will have two plots on it, so make sure that the chief engineer will be able
to tell the different between the two!
Name your program PA_MATLAB2_Task1_NETID_SEC.m

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Task 2 (of 2)
OBJECTIVE: Use plotting to present engineering problem solving graphically.
Youngs modulus, density, and melting point are important material properties. Youngs
modulus (in GPa) reflects how much a material stretches when a load is applied; melting point
(in Kelvin) gives the temperature at which a material transform from solid to liquid, normally at
1 atmospheric pressure; density is the mass a material divided by its volume (g/cm3). These
three material properties all determined by the interaction force between atoms, ions or
molecules that compose that material, thus they are related with each other. In this
assignment, you first need to find all three properties for each material and then graphically
present the three properties and provide a reasonable conclusion to your graphs.
Part A: Use matweb.com to find the density, Youngs modulus, and melting point of the

materials listed in the following table. You may need to convert the melting point in Celsius into
Kelvin. Copy and paste your table into a Word document and save it as:
PA_MATLAB_Task2_NETID_SEC.docx.
Materials

Aluminum(6066-T6)
Titanium
Copper
Steel
Tungsten
Sapphire
Silicon Carbide
Diamond

Density (g/cm3)

Youngs modulus
Melting point (K)
(Modulus of Elasticity)
(GPa)
68
933.37

2.7

Part B: Save the density, Youngs modulus, and melting point of the listed materials into a file

named material_properties.txt, and then write a MATLAB script to complete the


following tasks:
1) Load the materials properties data and assign appropriate variables to represent the
columns of your data.
2) Plot density vs. Youngs Modulus, density vs. melting point and Youngs Modulus vs.
melting point into the same graph window using subplot command.

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Save your file as: PA_MATLAB2_Task2_NETID_SEC.m


3) Copy your plots into PA_MATLAB2_Task2_NETID_SEC.docx and explain your
findings in
writing.
Hint: The load command will not work if there are letters in the .txt file. If you want to have
non-numerical text in your .txt file, comment it out using the % symbol.
Submit the file(s):
PA_MATLAB2_Task1_NETID_SEC.m
PA_MATLAB2_Task2_NETID_SEC.m
PA_MATLAB2_Task2_NETID_SEC.pdf (a pdf of the .docx file)
material_properties.txt
to the appropriate box on eCampus.

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