INFANT JESUS

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Kamarajar Nagar, Keelavallanadu, Thoothukudi – 628 851.
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Name of the Staf : Mr.K.ROBINSTON JEYASINGH Code No : 20106
Subject Code : AE 53 Title : AIRCRAFT STRUCTURES-II Year
: III Sem :V
Department : AERONAUTICAL ENGG.

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1. UNSYMMETRICAL BENDING
General, Principal axis and neutral axis methods- bending stresses in beams of
I symmetric sections with skew loads- bending stresses in beams of unsymmetrical
sections.

1 Basic terminologies

2 Doubly symmetric beam with skew load

3 Unsymmetrical Bending

4 Generalized K method

5 Problems from K method

6 Principal axis method

7 Problems from Principal axis method

8 Neutral axis method

9 Problems from Neutral axis method

10 Problems on Box beam

2. SHEAR FLOW IN OPEN SECTIONS

II Thin walled beams, Concept of shear flow, shear centre, Elastic axis. With one axis of
symmetry, with wall efective and inefective in bending, unsymmetrical beam sections.

11 Shear stress calculation in beams

12 Shear stress in equal leg angle section

13 Shear flow in Thin walled open section

14 Problems from thin walled beam

15 Shear flow in Unsymmetrical bending of thin walled beam

16 Problems from shear flow in unsymmetrical bending

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17 Shear flow in walls inefective bending

18 Problems from Shear flow in walls inefective bending

3. SHEAR FLOW IN CLOSED SECTIONS

Bredt – Batho formula, Single and multi – cell structures.- Shear flow in single & multicell
III structures under torsion. Shear flow in single and multicell under bending with walls
efective and inefective.

19 Bredt-Batho Theory

20 Determination of Angle of Twist due to Shear flow in single structures under

Torsion

21 Shear flow in single &Multicell structures under Torsion-Problems

22 Shear flow in single &Multicell structures under Bending with walls efective
and inefective-Problems

23 Shear flow in Special cases-Problems

IV 4. BUCKLING OF PLATES
Rectangular sheets under compression, local buckling stress of thin walled section-
Crippling stresses by Needham’s and Gerard’s methods, Thin walled column strengthsheet
stifener panels-Efective width.

24 Rectangular Sheets under compression

25 Local Buckling stress of thin walled section

26 Crippling stress by Needham method

27 Needham method-Problems

28 Crippling stress by Gerard method

29 Gerard method-Problems

30 Thin walled column strength

31 Sheet Stifner Panels

32 Efective width

5. STRESS ANALYSIS IN WING AND FUSELAGE 9

Shear resistant web beams-Tension field web beams(Wagner’s) – Shear and bending
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moment distribution for cantilever and semi-cantilever types of beams-loads on aircraft –
lift distribution-V-n diagram-Gust loads
33 Tension field web beams

34 Complete Wagner beam

35 Incomplete Wagner beam

36 Shear resistance Web beam

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37 Shear and bending moment distribution for cantilever beam

38 Shear and bending moment distribution for semi cantilever beam

39 Loads on Aircraft

40 Gust load

41 Lift distribution

42 V-N Diagram

DATE: 27.07.2012

STAFF HOD PRINCIPAL