Aircraft Structures II
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The official GTU curriculum for Aircraft Structures II (subject code 2150103) as prescribed for Aero · Semester 5 divides the course into 6 units, covering 16 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (2150103)Unit 1 Materials and Structural Components of Aircrafts
- Basic construction techniques: its airframe and specific components along with their functions
- Airframe loads: Types of load on aircraft and its parts in flight
Unit 2 Theory of Elasticity
- Basic elasticity
- plane stress
- plane strain
- Two dimensional problems in elasticity: Stress functions
- St Venant’s principle
Unit 3 Thin walled beams
- Introduction to Symmetrical and Unsymmetrical Bending
- Stress distribution
- Position of neutral axis and deflections
- calculation of section properties
Unit 4 Shear in beams
- Shear flow and shear center for open and closed section thin walled beams
Unit 5 Torsion of beams
- Introduction to torsion of solid sections
- torsion of open and closed section beams
Unit 6 Matrix Method of Structural Analysis
- Introduction to Stiffness and Flexibility Method
- application of system approach for the analysis of beams