Aerospace Structures

Engineering & Social Sciences Program
Madrid, Spain

Dates: 8/28/22 - 12/23/22

Engineering & Social Sciences

Aerospace Structures

Aerospace Structures Course Overview

OVERVIEW

CEA CAPA Partner Institution: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Location: Madrid, Spain
Primary Subject Area: Aerospace Engineering
Instruction in: English
Course Code: 15341
Transcript Source: Partner Institution
Course Details: Level 300
Recommended Semester Credits: 3
Contact Hours: 42
Prerequisites: We strongly advise you not to take this course if you have not passed Physics I , Introduction to Mechanics of Flight and Introduction to structural analysis.

DESCRIPTION

Chapter 1. Structures in the aerospace and aeronautical sector
Subject 1. Structural description of the aircraft
­ 1.1 Loads on aircraft structures
­ 1.2 Function of structural components
­ 1.3 Wing structure
­ 1.4 Fuselage structure
­ 1.5 Stabilizers structure
­ 1.6 Helicopter structure
Subject 2. Structures in the aeronautical sector
­ 2.1 Frame and truss structures
­ 2.2 Space structures
­ 2.3. Future trends

Chapter 2. Bending, shear and torsion of thin-walled beams
Subject 3 and 4. Bending and shear of open and closed, thin-walled beams
­ 3.1 Kinematic hypothesis
­ 3.2 Shear of open section beams
­ 3.3 Shear of closed section beams
­ 3.4 Shear centre
Subject 5. Torsion of beams
­ 5.1 Torsion of closed section beams
­ 5.2 Torsion of open section beams
Subject 6. Torsion on multiple-cell thin-walled beams
­ 6.1 Torsion of multiple-cell closed section beams
­ 6.2 Torsion of multiple-cell open section beams

Chapter 3. Plates and Shells
Subject 7 and 8. Bending of thin plates
­ 7. 1 Kinematic
­ 7.2 Plates subjected to a distributed transverse loads
­ 7.3 Plates subjected to bending and twisting
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Subject 9 and 10. Shells
­ 9.1 Hypotheses
9.2 Thin shells subjected to in-plane loads
9.3 Thin shells subjected to bending loads

Chapter 4. Laminate and sandwich structures
Subject 11. Theory of laminate
­ 11.1 Kinematic
­ 11.2 Orthotropic constitutive equations
­ 11.3 Classical and first-order theories of laminate composites
­ 11.4 Failure criteria
Subject 12. Composite beams and plates
­ 12.1 Composite beams subjected to bending
­ 12.2 Composite thin-walled cross-section beams
­ 12.3 Bending of composite plates
Subject 13. Sandwich structures
­ 13.1 Basic sandwich theory
­ 13.2 Sandwich beams
­ 13.3 Sandwich plates


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