Course Information

Course Name	Turkish	Hava Aracı Yapıları ve Malzemeleri
	English	Aircraft Structures & Materials
Course Code	HYM 502E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	-	3	2	2	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Hülya Cebeci Melih Fidanoğlu
Course Objectives		• Understand general design concepts for aircraft structures: vehicles, components, and materials; • Develop the analysis tools and skills needed to analyse the static and dynamic performance of aero structures; • To provide some of the essential design and structural assessment techniques for the development of aircraft structures; • Gain experience identifying, formulating, and solving aircraft structural engineering problems; • Describe the likely performance of classes of aircraft materials in the context of specific applications; • Use descriptors of strength, stress, and strain, and stress-strain relations in the context of aircraft materials and applications; • Describe methods of processing aircraft materials particularly joining issues and propose suitable routes for selected applications.
Course Description		Materials, Manufacturing and Lightweight Design concepts in Aerospace structures; Load-bearing systems; Trusses and Space Frames;; Fasteners & Joints; Fastener types and selection; Fibre reinforced composite materials; Morphing Structures; Impact Mechanics; Practical Stress Analysis and FEA Applications; Stress Concentration Factor; Factor of Safety; Modal Analysis.
Course Outcomes		• Identify, understand aircraft structures, materials and their design concepts • Design and choose materials for lightweight structures • Determining aerospace materials properties and mechanical characteristics • Understanding the properties and mechanical behaviours of aerospace materials • Analysing forces applied to aerospace structures and thin-walled structures by using FEA software.
Pre-requisite(s)		There is no pre-requisite for the course.
Required Facilities		CATIA, ABAQUS, ANSYS
Other
Textbook		Materials and Processes in Manufacturing by E. Paul Degarmo, J T. Black, Ronald A. Kohser, 9th edition,2003, John Willey & Sons, Inc ISBN 0-471-0306-5.
Other References		The product life-style management, Centre of Advanced Manufacturing, Purdue University. Introduction to Composite Materials Design, by: Ever J. Barbero

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