Introduction to Aircraft Stress Analysis

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• Requirements
• Loads due to manoeuvre and gusts
• Load distribution
• Undercarriage and crash cases.

Stressing

• The place of stress calculations in aircraft design and production
• Strength and stiffness requirements
• Factors
• Material properties
• Composites
• Fatigue and fracture.

Detail Stressing Methods

• In-plane and bending stresses
• Section properties
• Torsion
• Rivets and bolts
• Lugs
• Yielding and form factors
• Composite properties and stress analysis.

Buckling

• Formulae for struts, effects of yielding
• Torsional and local instability
• Buckling of stiffened panels in compression and shear, post buckled behaviour
• Imperfection sensitivity.

Aircraft Structures

• Reinforced shells under bending and torsion
• Fuselage frames, Rib analysis, Finite element analysis
• Safe life and damage tolerant analysis.

A typical timetable for this course is available to give you an idea of how this course is structured. Please note that this is not the actual timetable for the upcoming course and is subject to change.