The Course

The course will establish the basic design features and calculation for aircraft structures.

It starts with information from Mechanics and incorporates particular information from theory of elasticity as it applies to stressed shell sturctures.   The important load is from the component aerodynamic behaviour.  We look at trusses, beams, plates and shells.

Currently it is unlikely that real aircraft structural design is possible without recourse to structural element software.

In this course COMSOL software will form an important part of analysis

The course requires the completeion of an open ended project.

Boeing 737 Crash 

Bombardier dash 400

Landing on Hudson