AE 2410: Introduction to Aerospace Structures

Category
Category I (offered at least 1x per Year)
Units 1/3

This course provides a concise overview of statics and then focuses on basic stress analysis applied to simple aerospace structures. Topics in stress analysis include: concepts of stress and strain; basic constitutive relations; one-dimensional response to axial loading; thermal stresses; statically determinate and indeterminate problems; shear forces, bending moments, bending stresses and deflections in beams with symmetric cross-sections; two-dimensional stress transformation and Mohr’s circle; and an introduction to energy methods in structural analysis.