2.6 Course topics

• Historical background.
• Loads: aerodynamic, thrust and inertial.
• 2-D and 3-D elasticity. Stress and strain tensors.
• Deformations; stiffness and strength.
• Basic beams: bending and extension; torsion and shear.

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• Introduction to work and energy principles: virtual work; potential energy; strain energy.
• Approximate methods: Rayleigh-Ritz; FEM.
• Local and global modes of failure.