Knowing aerospace structural concepts, including their advantages and disadvantages, and understanding aircraft structural elements and their participation in carrying flight loads.

Understanding aircraft loads, including inertia and air loads. Apply V-n diagram to identify critical flight conditions and calculate shear and bending loads at various sections along an aircraft structure.

Understanding failure criteria (Tresca, Von-Mises, Normal maximum stress, and Mohr-Coulomb), and factor of safety and margin of safety.

Apply methods for analysis of beams, including multi-material beams, curved beams, frames, and unsymmetrical bending problems in thin-walled structures.

Understanding the concept of shear flow and applying it to calculate shear stress in open and closed sections, beams, and structures.

Understanding the strain energy method in the calculation of structural displacements, Apply Virtual work analysis to determine and indeterminate structures.

Apply methods to determine torsional stress and twist angle in multi-cell closed thin-walled sections.

Apply method for the analysis of aircraft structural members (Ribs, Spars, …), idealization with boom and thin webs, bending, twist, and transverse shear loads applied to multi-cell- idealized sections, structural joints, and connections.

Concept of instability in structures and buckling of columns and struts.