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

• Sun, C. T., Mechanics of Aircraft Structures, 2nd ed., John Wiley (2006).

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5. Ugural, A. C., Stresses in Plates and Shells, 2nd ed., McGraw Hill (1998).

Course Outcomes (COs):

CO1: Students should be able to use mathematical and physical knowledge to undertake stress and deformation analysis of the basic structural components such as Thin Plates.

CO2: Students should be able to use mathematical and physical knowledge to undertake stress and deformation analysis of the basic structural component such as Thin walled Beams.

CO3: Understand how composite materials differ from isotropic materials & analyse composite materials.

CO4: Students should be able to analyse a typical aerospace component using an FEM software.