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Aircraft Structures Course Guide

This document outlines the objectives and units of an aircraft structures course. The course aims to teach students about loads on aircraft components, analyzing aircraft wings and fuselages, and designing major structural elements. The five units cover topics like unsymmetrical bending, shear flow in open and closed sections, buckling of plates, and stress analysis of wings and fuselages. The outcomes include understanding aircraft loads, structural design limitations, load distribution, and analyzing real aircraft components like wings and fuselages.

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Aircraft Structures Course Guide

This document outlines the objectives and units of an aircraft structures course. The course aims to teach students about loads on aircraft components, analyzing aircraft wings and fuselages, and designing major structural elements. The five units cover topics like unsymmetrical bending, shear flow in open and closed sections, buckling of plates, and stress analysis of wings and fuselages. The outcomes include understanding aircraft loads, structural design limitations, load distribution, and analyzing real aircraft components like wings and fuselages.

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AE8502 AIRCRAFT STRUCTURES - II LT P C

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OBJECTIVES:
 To provide the behavior of loads experience of aircraft indigenous components.
 To provide the students adopt with various methods for analysis of aircraft wings and
fuselage.
 To provide conception design of major aircraft structural components.
 To provide the better understate the low weight structures.

UNIT I UNSYMMETRICAL BENDING 9+6


Bending of symmetric beams subject to skew loads - bending stresses in beams of unsymmetrical
sections – generalized k-method, neutral axis method, principal axis method, Advantages and
Disadvantages of three methods.

UNIT II SHEAR FLOW IN OPEN SECTIONS 9+6


Thin walled beams – concept of shear flow – the shear centre and its determination – shear flow
distribution in symmetrical and unsymmetrical thin-walled sections – structural idealization – shear
flow variation in idealized sections-Applications of shear flow calculations.

UNIT III SHEAR FLOW IN CLOSED SECTIONS 9+6


Bredt - Batho theory – single-cell and multi-cell tubes subject to torsion – shear flow distribution in
thin-walled single & multi-cell structures subject to combined bending and torsion – with walls
effective and ineffective in bending-Importance of shear flow & shear center determination.

UNIT IV BUCKLING OF PLATES 9+6


Bending of thin plates - local buckling stress of thin walled sections – crippling strength estimation-
thin skin stringer panel-effective skin width –inter rivet buckling-skin stringer panel-Integrally
stiffened panels-cutouts- Lightly loaded beams.

UNIT V STRESS ANALYSIS OF WING AND FUSELAGE 9+6


Aircraft loads- classification – the V-n diagram – shear force and bending moment distribution over
the aircraft wing and fuselage – shear flow in thin-webbed beams with parallel and non-parallel
flanges – complete tension field beams – semi-tension field beam theory.
TOTAL : 75 PERIODS
OUTCOMES
 Ability to understand loads acting an aircraft.
 Ability to identify& resolve the structural design& its limitations .
 Ability to improvise distribution their loads on aircraft member with safer limits.
 Ability to understand the design of low weight to high strength panel member.
 Ability to analyze the aircraft real structural components such as wings and fuselage.

TEXT BOOKS:
1. Bruhn. E.H., "Analysis and Design of Flight Vehicles Structures", Tri-state off-set Company,
USA, 1985.
2. Megson T M G , "Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students", Elsevier Ltd, 2012
3. Michael Chun-Yung Niu, “Airframe structural Design ”,Conmilit Press Ltd,1998

REFERENCES:
1. Howard D Curtis, "Fundamentals of Aircraft Structural Analysis", WCB-McGraw Hill, 1997
2. Rivello, R.M., "Theory and Analysis of Flight Structures", McGraw Hill, 1993.
3. Peery, D.J., and Azar, J.J., "Aircraft Structures", 2nd edition, McGraw – Hill, N.Y., 1999

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