Notes (slides) for undergraduate-level course(s) in Aerospace Structures
- Load Factors
- V-n Diagram and Gust Loads
- Strain
- Stress
- Stress and Strain Transformation
- Principal Stresses and Maximum Shear Stress
- Intro to Materials
- Constitutive Law: Stress-Strain Relations
- Intro to Composites and Anisotropy
- Equilibrium Equations
- Compatibility Equations
- 2D Elasticity and Airy Stress Function
- Elasticity in Polar Coordinates
- Stress on Plate with a Hole
- ThermoElasticity
- Failure Theories
- Fracture Analysis
- Castigliano’s Theorems
- PMTPE: Principal of Minimum Total Potential Energy
- Energy Methods for Axial Bar and Twisting Rods
- Energy Methods for Bending of Beams
- Structural Dynamics of Beams
- Energy Methods for Structural Dynamics
- Buckling of Discrete Systems
- Buckling of Beams
- Buckling Solution using PMTPE
- Plate Theory
- Plate Analysis using PMTPE
- Buckling of Plates
- Structural Dynamics of Plates
- Analysis of Composite Plates
- Aeroelastic Divergence of Wings
- Divergence Analysis using Approximate Methods
- Structural Design Optimization
- Structural Design Constraints