Lecture notes covering classical stress analysis topics for aerospace structures. Click a card to preview the slides, or download / share them.
Idealisation of thin-walled aircraft structures into booms and skins.
Continuation of structural idealisation with worked examples.
Shear flow distribution in open and closed thin-walled sections.
Torsion of single- and multi-cell closed sections — Bredt-Batho theory.
Post-buckling behaviour of thin shear webs — Wagner tension field theory.
Analysis of aircraft spars: bending, shear and combined loading.
Stress analysis of lugs and pin-loaded joints with allowable load methods.
Linear elastic fracture mechanics, stress intensity factors and crack growth.
Virtual work method applied to stress analysis problems.
Bending stress analysis of open and closed thin-walled sections.
Buckling of columns, plates and stiffened panels in aerospace structures.
Design and analysis of bolted and riveted joints under various loading.