Aer E 321: Flight Structures Analysis (Section 1, Fall 2017)

(3-0) Cr. 3. F.S. Prereq: E M 324, Credit or enrollment in MATH 266 or 267
Introduction to elasticity, airworthiness, and flight loads. Introduction to fatigue. Materials selection for flight applications. Thin walled cross-sections under bending, torsion, and shear loads using classical methods. Shear center. Column buckling. Matrix methods of structural analysis.

Teaching staff

• Instructor - C. Thomas Chiou, cchiou@iastate.edu
• Teaching assistant - Shujaut Bader

Course documents

• Syllabus/Schedule

Textbook

• T.H.G. Megson, Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students 6e, 2017 (ISU Library online, 5e)

References

• D. J. Peery, Aircraft Structures, 1950 (Dover reprint) (ISU Library online)
• A. Kassimali, Matrix Analysis of Structures 2e, 2012 (ISU Library)

Links

• Introduction to Aerospace Structures from University of Colorado at Boulder
• Aerospace Structural Mechanics from MIT OpenCourseWare
• Aerospace Structural Analysis and Design from MIT OpenCourseWare
• Writing Guidelines for Engineering and Science Students from Penn State



• Sister site for AerE 322 Aerospace Structures Laboratory