ENME422-25S1 (C) Semester One 2025

Special Topic

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 February 2025
End Date: Sunday, 22 June 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 2 March 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 11 May 2025

Description

Special Topic

Aerospace Structures.

This course develops engineering analysis skills with focus on methods relevant to aerospace structures. This includes stress, strain, deflection, and stability analyses. It also includes understanding the loads experienced by aircraft and spacecraft. Major topics include: thin and rib-stiffened structures, light weight materials, energy methods, application of the finite element method, and airframe loads.

Learning Outcomes

  • Washington Accord (V4) Summary of Graduate Attributes attained in this course:
     WA1 – Engineering Knowledge
     WA2 – Problem Analysis
     WA4 – Investigation
     WA5 – Tool Usage
     WA9 – Communication

  • Course topics with Learning Outcomes (and Washington Accord (WA) and UC Graduate Attributes) identified.

    1. Vectors and Matrices, Stress (shear and normal), Stress Transformation and Principal Stresses, Strain and Strain Displacement Relations, Stress-Strain Relations and Thermal Strain
    2. Equilibrium at a Point and Field Equations, Design and Strength Theories, Strain Energy and Complementary energy (Theorems)
    3. Beams – Compound and Asymmetric, Rayleigh-Ritz Method and Total Potential Energy
    4. Torsion of Thin-Wall Closed Sections, Bending in Plates, Bending / Twisting in Plates, Plate Boundary Conditions
    5. Stability and Euler Column Buckling, Buckling of Thin Plates
    6. Aerospace Materials, Introduction to Composite Materials, Introduction to Composite Structures Analysis, Composite Laminate Theory
    7. Aircraft Structures and Loads
    8. Transverse Shear in Thin-walled Beams
    9. Overarching course objectives (WA1, WA2, WA4, WA5, WA10) (EIE2)
            9.1. Discuss fundamental energy principles related to structural analysis such as the  principle of total potential energy and the principle of virtual work
            9.2. Discuss the fundamentals of instability analysis as it applies to thin plate-like structures
            9.3. Discuss the common materials used in aircraft and spacecraft structural components
            9.4. Estimate typical airframe loads and discuss the concept of airworthiness
            9.5. Perform deflection and stress analysis of thin-walled beams
            9.6. Discuss the role of the finite element method for the analysis of aerospace structures

      • University Graduate Attributes

      This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:

      Employable, innovative and enterprising

      Students will develop key skills and attributes sought by employers that can be used in a range of applications.

Prerequisites

Lecturer

Stephen Daynes

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
In-class Test 1 19 Mar 2024 20%
Project proposal 28 Mar 2024 5%
In-class Test 2 13 May 2024 20%
Project report 28 May 2024 20%
Final Exam 35%

Notes

For detailed course, policy, regulatory and integrity information, please refer to the UC web site, or see relevant Course or Department LEARN pages, (which are available to enrolled students).

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,268.00

International fee $6,238.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Mechanical Engineering .

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