Design of Aircraft Structures
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Design of Aircraft Structures
Synopsis
Introduction to airframe configuration; design philosophy and criteria; margin of safety; validation and testing; design allowables and values; fundamental concepts including load paths, free body diagrams and analysis methods.This course also includes applied design and analysis of aircraft structures including: advanced design concepts; failure theories and interaction methods; buckling and crippling of columns, buckling of plates and panels; design optimization, aircraft structures under tensile, compressive, shear, and combined loads, fasteners, joints, fittings, and lugs.
An introduction to durability and damage tolerance is also presented. The topics include stress concentrations, S-N data, loading environment, stress life and strain-life approaches, damage accumulation theories, stress intensity factor, fracture toughness, crack growth and fracture criteria.
Key Topics
- Describe airplane configuration and load path
- Describe design criteria and its evolution
- Explain the verification and validation process
- Select material for for an airplane part of component
- Describe various analysis methods
- Recognize differences between metals and composites
- Explain failure theories and margin of safety calculation
Who Should Attend
This course is for those industry engineers in airplane design, analysis or support and government agency engineers, as well as Manufacturing support or fleet support engineers. Aerospace engineers, mechanical engineers and civil engineers would most benefit from this course.
Type of Course: Instructor-Led Short Course
Course Level: Advanced
Course scheduling available in the following formats:
• Course at Conference
• On-site Course
• Stand-alone/Public Course
Course Length: 2 days
AIAA CEU's available: yes
Course Outline
I. Margin of Safety
II. Airframe Configurations
III. Load Paths
IV. Design Philosophy and Criteria,
V. Verification and Validation,
VI. Materials, Design Allowables and Values,
VII. Material Selection,
VIII. Idealization and Analysis Methods
IX. Tension Structures, Failure Theories
X. Failure Theories
XI. Fasteners
XII. Joints, Lugs and Fittings
XIII. Buckling and Crippling
Since course notes will not be distributed onsite, AIAA and your course instructor highly recommend that you bring your computer with the course notes already downloaded to the course.
Once you have registered for the course, these course notes are available about two weeks prior to the course event, and remain available to you in perpetuity.
Michael Mohaghegh has worked for The Boeing Company for 40+ years. He is a Boeing Technical Fellow in Advanced Structures and Materials and presently the Chief Editor of the Boeing Company Composite Design Manuals. Mike is an affiliate professor at the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and he is the Director of Modern Aircraft Structures Certificate Program at the University of Washington. He graduated from the University of California (Berkeley) with a B.S. in Civil Engineering and an M.S. in Structural Engineering, and the University of Washington with a Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics. He did post doctoral research in Failure Analysis at the University of Washington in 1973