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Topics
temperature changes, Materials and mechanics issues. Constitutive models for macroscale representation of the material response to mechanical load, High and low temperature problems, electric field, stress concentration, Strength theories for triaxial cases, plastic behaviour, fatigue analysis and endurance limit, creep and stress relaxation. Fatigue and crack propagation, residual stresses, Bending of thin-walled beams with open and closed sections, Design and analysis of structures: torsion of shells and box beams, shear lag, Flexural axis, Pressure cabin problems, effects of stringers and booms, normal modes, introduction to dynamic loading, Aeroelastic effects, response to gust and landing loads, flutter and divergence.
