Structural components of aircraft – loads and material selection – introduction to Kirchhoff theory of thin plates – bending and buckling of thin plates – unsymmetric bending of beams – bending of open and closed thin walled beams – shear and torsion of thin walled beams – combined open and closed section of beams – structural idealization.

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