Advanced Engineering Structures

• Materials and mechanics issues
• Constitutive models for macroscale representation of the material response to mechanical load, temperature changes, electric field, etc
• High and low temperature problems
• Strength theories for triaxial cases, stress concentration, fatigue analysis and endurance limit, plastic behaviour, residual stresses, creep and stress relaxation
• Fatigue and crack propagation
• Design and analysis of structures:
  • torsion of shells
  • box beams
• Bending of thin-walled beams with open and closed sections
• Flexural axis, shear lag, effects of stringers and booms
• Pressure cabin problems, introduction to dynamic loading, normal modes, response to gust and landing loads
• Aeroelastic effects, flutter and divergence

Suggested Reading Materials

Mechanical Behavior of Materials, 3rd Edition
Dowling, Norman E.. Prentice Hall, 2006.

Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students, 3rd Edition
Megson, T.H.G.. Butterworth-Heinemann, 1999.