AE3511 Aircraft Structures Laboratory Syllabus:
AE3511 Aircraft Structures Laboratory Syllabus – Anna University Regulation 2021
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
• To enable the students understand the behavior of aircraft structural components under different loading conditions.
• To provide the Principle involved in photo elasticity and its applications in stress analysis for composite laminates.
• To obtain the stresses in circular discs and beams using photo elastic techniques
LIST OF EXPERIMENTS
1. Deflection of Beams
2. Verification of superposition theorem
3. Verification of Maxwell’s reciprocal theorem
4. Buckling load estimation of slender eccentric columns
5. Determination of flexural rigidity of composite beams
6. Unsymmetrical Bending of a Cantilever Beam
7. Combined bending and Torsion of a Hollow Circular Tube
8. Material Fringe Constant of a Photo elastic Models
9. Shear Centre of a Channel Section
10. Free Vibration of a Cantilever Beam
11. Forced Vibration of a cantilever Beam
12. Fabrication of a Composite Laminate.
13. Determination of Elastic constants for a Composite Tensile Specimen.
14. Determination of Elastic constants for a Composite Flexural Specimen.
15. Tension field beam
Any 10 experiments can be chosen
TOTAL: 60 PERIODS
COURSE OUTCOMES:
On successful completion of this course, the student will be able to
CO1: Evaluate the effects of bending in the aircraft structures.
CO2: Explain the shear centre of the aircraft structures.
CO3: Compare the photo-elastic techniques on the aircraft structures.
CO4: Justify the experimental findings in clear oral and concise report.