Taking this course, the students will
- learn the main components of an aircraft structure and functions of structural elements used in aircraft structure
- learn how to use energy methods in solving structural mechanics problems
- be able to apply structural idealizations for the analysis of thin walled open and closed section stiffened beams
- be able to conduct elastic stability analysis of thin walled straight and curved stiffened panels under single and combined loading
- will learn how to conduct experimental stress analysis