AER207   Aerospace Structures and Dynamics   (15 credits)

Description

This module will examine the properties of aerospace structures both statically and dynamically.  In static analysis, strut structures and beams will be studied in detail. The course will study statically determinate beams with different cross-sections, axes of symmetry and sectional properties, loaded under point loads, uniformly distributed loads and moments. Using Macaulay's method, analysis of the beam loading will be undertaken to allow the property determination of representative aircraft structures under bending, torsion and warping. In dynamic analysis, the course will concentrate on structural vibration and rigid body dynamics as applied to aerostructures. In structural vibration, the single degree of freedom model will be used to study free and forced vibration of structures under steady state, impulse and arbitrary loading. In rigid body dynamics, common two-dimensional mechanisms will be studied, including analysis of rigid rotors and gyroscopic motion.

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