MAE 3250 - Analysis of Mechanical and Aerospace Structures

Fall, summer. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

Prerequisite: MAE 2120. Offered in summer through Engineering Cooperative Program.

H. Ritz.

Topics in mechanics of materials applied to analysis and design of structural components encountered in mechanical and aerospace systems. Includes: torsion, bending, buckling, stress concentrations, and statically indeterminate structures. Solutions obtained using strength-of-materials approximations and elementary finite element formulations.

Outcome 1: Students will be able to manipulate and interpret stress and strain matrices arising from multi-axial loading.

Outcome 2: Apply strength-of-materials approaches to applications involving bending and torsion loading modes.

Outcome 3: Perform elementary, two-dimensional, finite element analyses of the elastic response of mechanical components.

Outcome 4: Relate numerical solutions to analytical solutions, where available.