SE 160AAerospace Structural Mechanics I
Aircraft and spacecraft flight loads and operational envelopes, three-dimensional stress/strain relations, metallic and composite materials, failure theories, three-dimensional space trusses and stiffened shear panels, combined extension-bend-twist behavior of thin-walled multicell aircraft and space vehicle structures, modulus-weighted section properties, shear center.
Prerequisites
From the catalog: “SE 105 or MAE 21 and SE 101B or MAE 30B and SE 110A or MAE 131A or MAE 131AR.”
Where it sits in degree plans
Suggested plans most often put it in Year 3 · Winter (4 programs).
Required in (2)
- AeroEng w/Spec Aerothermodynam
- Aerospace Engineering (B.S.)