Introduction to Aerospace Structures

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This course provides a concise overview of statics and then focuses on basic stress analysis applied to simple aerospace structures. Topics in stress analysis include: concepts of stress and strain; basic constitutive relations; one-dimensional response to axial loading; thermal stresses; statically determinate and indeterminate problems; shear forces, bending moments, bending stresses and deflections in beams with symmetric cross sections; two-dimensional stress transformation and Mohr’s circle; and an introduction to energy methods in structural analysis. Recommended background: differential, integral, multivariable calculus (MA 1021, MA 1022, MA 1024 or equivalent), mechanics (PH 1110, PH 1111, or equivalent). Students may not receive credit for both AE 2410 and AE 2712.