AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING


AIRCRAFT STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS

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UNIT-I       UNSYMMETRICAL BENDING                                          


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


UNIT-II          SHEAR FLOW IN OPEN SECTIONS                   


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, structural idealization, Shear flow variation in idealized sections.


UNIT-III SHEAR FLOW IN CLOSED SECTIONS    


Bredth – Batho formula, Single and multi – cell structures. Approximate methods. 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


Rectangular sheets under compression, Local buckling stress of thin walled sections, Crippling stresses by Needham’s and Gerard’s methods, thin walled column strength. Sheet stiffener panels. Effective width, inter rivet and sheet wrinkling failures.


UNIT-V       STRESS ANALYSIS IN WING AND FUSELAGE                         


Loads on an aircraft – the V-n diagram – shear force and bending moment distribution over the aircraft wing and fuselage and other types of wings and fuselage, thin webbed beam. With parallel and non-parallel flanges, monocoque and Semi-monocoque aerospace structures Shear resistant web beams, Tension field web beams (Wagner’s).