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Aircraft Structural Analysis Syllabus

The document outlines the objectives and syllabus for a course on aircraft structural components, focusing on their behavior under various loads. It covers topics such as unsymmetrical bending, shear flow in open and closed sections, buckling of plates, and stress analysis in wings and fuselages. The syllabus includes specified units, tutorial periods, and recommended textbooks and references for further study.

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Aircraft Structural Analysis Syllabus

The document outlines the objectives and syllabus for a course on aircraft structural components, focusing on their behavior under various loads. It covers topics such as unsymmetrical bending, shear flow in open and closed sections, buckling of plates, and stress analysis in wings and fuselages. The syllabus includes specified units, tutorial periods, and recommended textbooks and references for further study.

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OBJECTIVE

To study the behaviour of various aircraft structural components under different


types of
loads.

UNIT I UNSYMMETRICAL BENDING 9


General, Principal axis and neutral axis methods- bending stresses in beams of
symmetric
sections with skew loads- bending stresses in beams of unsymmetrical sections.
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UNIT II SHEAR FLOW IN OPEN SECTIONS 9


Thin walled beams, Concept of shear flow, shear centre, Elastic axis. With one axis of
symmetry, with wall effective and ineffective in bending, unsymmetrical beam
sections.

UNIT III SHEAR FLOW IN CLOSED SECTIONS 9


Bredt – Batho formula, Single and multi – cell structures.- Shear flow in single &
multicell
structures under torsion. Shear flow in single and multicell under bending with walls
effective and ineffective.

UNIT IV BUCKLING OF PLATES 9


Rectangular sheets under compression, local buckling stress of thin walled section-
Crippling stresses by Needham’s and Gerard’s methods, Thin walled column
strengthsheet
stiffener panels-Effective width.

UNIT V STRESS ANALYSIS IN WING AND FUSELAGE 9


Shear resistant web beams-Tension field web beams(Wagner’s) – Shear and bending
moment distribution for cantilever and semi-cantilever types of beams-loads on
aircraft –lift
distribution-V-n diagram-Gust loads

TUTORIAL: 15 ,TOTAL: 60 PERIODS

TEXT BOOKS
1. Peery, D.J., and Azar, J.J., “Aircraft Structures”, 2nd edition, McGraw–Hill, N.Y.,
2007.
2. Megson, T.M.G., “Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students”, Edward Arnold,
2007.
REFERENCES
1. Bruhn. E.H. “Analysis and Design of Flight vehicles Structures”, Tri – state off set
company, USA, 1985.
2. Rivello, R.M., “Theory and Analysis of Flight

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