Aerospace Manufacturing Processes, Materials and Structures

This course aims to develop familiarity with the analysis of metallic airframe structures, and to develop an appreciation of current manufacturing technologies and how these influence material selection and component design.

It covers the following topics:

Stress and strain transformations, through which experimental data can be processed and interpreted;

Calculation of geometric properties in complex section members, bending and torsional stresses elastic and plastic material behaviour;

Shear flow and shear centre within single and multi-cell boxes;

Stiffness matrix method of structural analysis, applied to frame structures, for extraction of deflections, member end force components and reactions.

Fatigue and fracture problems in structural materials.