AIRCRAFT STRUCTURES ANALYSIS OF

AIRCRAFT
– II STRUCTURES

(AER18R372)
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 Syllabus
SHEAR FLOW IN OPEN SECTIONS
Unit 2
Definition and expression for shear flow due
SHEAR FLOW IN OPEN
to bending, shear flow in thin-walled Open SECTIONS
sections with and without stiffening
elements, torsion of thin-walled Open
sections, the shear center of symmetric and Outcomes
unsymmetrical open sections, structural On completion of this unit, Students can able to
idealization analyze the thin walled open section beams supporting
shear loads, bending loads and torsional loads.

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 Course Progress

Lesson 1. shear flow due to bending

Lesson 2. shear flow in thin-walled Open sections -

without stiffening elements
Lesson 3. shear flow in thin-walled Open sections - with
stiffening elements

Lesson 4. Torsion of thin-walled Open sections

Lesson 5. shear center of symmetric and unsymmetrical

open sections

Lesson 6. Structural idealization

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 Lesson 2: shear flow in thin-walled Open sections - without stiffening elements
Topic 3: Expression for shear flow in thin-walled Open sections - without stiffening elements

Shear flow, q = shear force per unit length (N/m)

q= τ(shear stress) * t(thickness)

The equations of equilibrium and expressions for strain which are

necessary for the analysis of open section beams supporting shear loads

The analysis of open section beams subjected to torsion requires a different

approach
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 Derivation: shear flow in thin-walled Open sections -
without stiffening elements

Consider a prismatic beam

For equilibrium of beam element

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 Derivation: shear flow in thin-walled Open sections
- without stiffening elements

= Shear Flow

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Students (Aerospace Engineering) 6th Edition, Kindle Edition

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 Derivation: shear flow in thin-walled Open sections
- without stiffening elements
Look at a beam with an open section, with applied
shear forces Sx and Sy about a point which
produces no twisting of the tube cross section (Shear
Centre).

The relationship between shear flow and axial stress is

given by Equation

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Engineering Students (Aerospace Engineering) 6th
Edition, Kindle Edition

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 Derivation: shear flow in thin-walled Open sections
- without stiffening elements
differentiating this equation gives:

substituting back into the first equation gives:

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Engineering Students (Aerospace Engineering) 6th
Edition, Kindle Edition

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 Derivation: shear flow in thin-walled Open sections
- without stiffening elements
substituting for the effective shear forces gives:

Integrating this equation with respect to 's' from one

point to another along the beam surface gives:

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Engineering Students (Aerospace Engineering) 6th
Edition, Kindle Edition

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 Derivation: shear flow in thin-walled Open sections
- without stiffening elements
But by starting at s = 0 where q = 0 for an open beam,
then:

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Engineering Students (Aerospace Engineering) 6th
Edition, Kindle Edition

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 Examples:
Here are the shear flow distributions of some common cross sections:

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olidmechanics2/C3-transverse-shear/C3.1-
shear-flow/theory/

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 Topic 3: Expression for shear
flow in thin-walled Open
sections - without stiffening
elements
Shear flow is the shear force
V per unit length of the
perimeter around a thin-walled
section. Shear flow has the
dimensions of force per unit of
length. This corresponds to
units of Newton per meter in Second Lesson Summary
the SI system.
Shear flow in thin-walled Open sections - without
stiffening elements

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 Problems on

Roadmap Problems on shear center of

symmetric open sections
unsymmetrical open
Definition and
Problems on shear center of expression for
Structural
Structural idealization
of thin walled open
section
sections idealization
Problems on torsion of thin-
walled Open sections
Expression for torsion of
thin-walled Open sections
Problems on Expression for shear
flow in thin-walled Open sections
- with stiffening elements Expression for shear flow in
thin-walled Open sections -
with stiffening elements Problems on Expression for shear
flow in thin-walled Open sections -
without stiffening elements

Definition and
Expression for shear flow
expression for Problems on in thin-walled Open
shear flow due to shear flow due Lesson 1
sections - without
bending to bending
stiffening elements Lesson 2

Lesson 3
Lesson 4

Lesson 5

Lesson
6

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