printer friendly pageAA 240B: Analysis of Structures
Thin plate analysis. Structural stability. Material behavior: plasticity and fracture. Introduction of finite element analysis; truss, frame, and plate structures. Prerequisite: 240A or consent of instructor.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Chang, F. (PI)
AA 241A: Introduction to Aircraft Design, Synthesis, and Analysis
New aircraft systems emphasizing commercial aircraft. Economic and technological factors that create new aircraft markets. Determining market demands and system mission performance requirements; optimizing configuration to comply with requirements; the interaction of disciplines including aerodynamics, structures, propulsion, guidance, payload, ground support, and parametric studies. Applied aerodynamic and design concepts for use in configuration analysis. Application to a student-selected aeronautical system; applied structural fundamentals emphasizing fatigue and fail-safe considerations; design load determination; weight estimation; propulsion system performance; engine types; environmental problems; performance estimation. Direct/indirect operating costs prediction and interpretation. Aircraft functional systems; avionics; aircraft reliability and maintainability. Prerequisite: 100 or equivalent.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Kroo, I. (PI)
AA 241B: Introduction to Aircraft Design, Synthesis, and Analysis
New aircraft systems emphasizing commercial aircraft. Economic and technological factors that create new aircraft markets. Determining market demands and system mission performance requirements; optimizing configuration to comply with requirements; the interaction of disciplines including aerodynamics, structures, propulsion, guidance, payload, ground support, and parametric studies. Applied aerodynamic and design concepts for use in configuration analysis. Application to a student-selected aeronautical system; applied structural fundamentals emphasizing fatigue and fail-safe considerations; design load determination; weight estimation; propulsion system performance; engine types; environmental problems; performance estimation. Direct/indirect operating costs prediction and interpretation. Aircraft functional systems; avionics; aircraft reliability and maintainability. Prerequisite: 100 or equivalent.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Kroo, I. (PI)
AA 241X: Design, Construction, and Testing of Autonomous Aircraft
Students grouped according to their expertise to carry out the multidisciplinary design of a solar-powered autonomous aircraft that must meet a clearly stated set of design requirements. Design and construction of the airframe, integration with existing guidance, navigation, and control systems, and development and operation of the resulting design. Design reviews and reports. Prerequisites: expertise in any of the following disciplines by having satisfied the specified courses or equivalent work elsewhere: conceptual design (241A,B); applied aerodynamics (200A,B); structures (240A); composite manufacturing experience; guidance and control (208/271,
ENGR 205).
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Alonso, J. (PI)
;
Kroo, I. (PI)
AA 242A: Classical Dynamics (ME 331A)
Accelerating and rotating reference frames. Kinematics of rigid body motion; Euler angles, direction cosines. D¿Alembert¿s principle, equations of motion. Inertia properties of rigid bodies. Dynamics of coupled rigid bodies. Lagrange¿s equations and their use. Dynamic behavior, stability, and small departures from equilibrium. Prerequisite:
ENGR 15 or equivalent.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Mitiguy, P. (PI)
AA 242B: Mechanical Vibrations
For M.S.-level graduate students. Covers the vibrations of discrete systems and continuous structures. Introduction to the computational dynamics of linear engineering systems. Review of analytical dynamics of discrete systems; undamped and damped vibrations of N-degree-of-freedom systems; continuous systems; approximation of continuous systems by displacement methods; solution methods for the Eigenvalue problem; direct time-integration methods. Prerequisites:
AA 242A or equivalent (recommended but not required); basic knowledge of linear algebra and ODEs; no prior knowledge of structural dynamics is assumed.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Farhat, C. (PI)
AA 252: Techniques of Failure Analysis
Introduction to the field of failure analysis, including fire and explosion analysis, large scale catastrophe projects, traffic accident reconstruction, aircraft accident investigation, human factors, biomechanics and accidents, design defect cases, materials failures and metallurgical procedures, and structural failures. Product liability, failure modes and effects analysis, failure prevention, engineering ethics, and the engineer as expert witness.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Murray, S. (PI)
AA 253: Product and Systems Development
Modern approaches to aerospace design development for life cycle value. Concepts of air and space systems development in a systems context. Stakeholder value issues and requirements through manufacturing and delivery. Processes and practices for functional analysis, concept and architecture development, trades, domain criteria, interfaces, and verification and validation. Reliability, risk, and safety. Value stream analysis, integrated product and process development, key characteristics, and hardware/software integration aimed at information systems. Tools involve quality function deployment, design structure matrices, and decision mechanisms.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Alonso, J. (PI)
;
Weiss, S. (PI)
AA 254: Information Systems in Aerospace Vehicles
Sensors, processors, activators, and operators, and the media and protocols that integrate them for performance and safety.
Terms: Win
| Units: 2
Instructors:
Weiss, S. (PI)
AA 255: Space Systems Engineering and Design
Systemized approaches to design, fabrication, integration, and testing of flight hardware from the component level through functional systems. The development of systems level requirements based on flow-down from mission requirements and goals. Comparison of systems engineering techniques related to requirements development, tracking, validation, and verification. An examination of risk tracking and mitigation. The development of the Gravity Probe B Relativity Mission will be used as a case study to illustrate key principles.
Instructors:
Mester, J. (PI)
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