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  • AAE 54700: Experimental Stress Analysis

    3.00 Credits
    Purdue University-Main Campus

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Theory and application of photoelastic, electric strain gage, and brittle lacquer methods of experimental solution of 2- and 3-D structures problems for static and dynamic loadings. Introductions to holography, moire, and photoviscoelasticity. Typically offered Spring. 0.000 OR 3.000 Credit Hours Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Laboratory, Lecture School of Aero and Astro Engr College Aeronautics & Astronautics Department Course Attributes: AE Structures, Upper Division
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  • AAE 55000: Multidisciplinary Design Optimization

    3.00 Credits
    Purdue University-Main Campus

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Basics of numerical optimization: problem formulation, conditions of optimality, search direction, and step length. Calculus-based techniques for univariate and multivariate optimization. Constrained and unconstrained optimization methods. Global optimization methods. Multi-objective optimization: Pareto optimality and approaches. Recent multidisciplinary design optimization techniques: approximations, response surface methodology, and collaborative optimization. Applications of various methods and techniques to representative engineering problems, culminating in a final project. Ability to solve mathematical problems with MATLAB and IMSL and similar software helpful. The distance offering of this course originates from the West Lafayette campus, is offered through streaming video via ProEd, and may be made available at the Calumet campus. Typically offered Fall. 3.000 Credit Hours Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture School of Aero and Astro Engr College Aeronautics & Astronautics Department Course Attributes: AE Design, AE Structures, Upper Division
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  • AAE 55100: Design Theory And Methods For Aerospace Systems

    3.00 Credits
    Purdue University-Main Campus

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Introduction to design theory, aerospace design process, design specification and requirements, concept generation and selection, design decomposition, improving designs, process design, and concurrent engineering. Design for assembly/manufacture. Projects allow for application and critical analysis of design methods. Typically offered Fall. 3.000 Credit Hours Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture School of Aero and Astro Engr College Aeronautics & Astronautics Department Course Attributes: AE Design, Upper Division
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  • AAE 55200: Nondestructive Evaluation Of Structures And Materials

    3.00 Credits
    Purdue University-Main Campus

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Overview of methods employed for nondestructive evaluation of structures and materials taught in the context of damage tolerant structural analysis. Major inspection topics include: radiography, ultrasonics, eddy current, penetrant, magnetic, and visual/optical techniques. Other new emerging inspection techniques also are discussed. Offered in alternate years. Typically offered Spring. 3.000 Credit Hours Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture School of Aero and Astro Engr College Aeronautics & Astronautics Department Course Attributes: AE Structures, Upper Division
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  • AAE 55300: Elasticity In Aerospace Engineering

    3.00 Credits
    Purdue University-Main Campus

    Credit Hours: 3.00. A basic course in the theory of elasticity with emphasis on understanding the fundamental principles and solution techniques used in the stress analysis of structures. Cartesian tensors. Governing equations for linear elasticity. Rigorous derivation of beam and plate equations from the three-dimensional elasticity equations. Torsion. Thermoelasticity. The stress functions and complex functions approaches to two-dimensional problems. Energy methods and approximate solutions. Three-dimensional problems. Knowledge of differential equations assumed. Typically offered Fall. 3.000 Credit Hours Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture School of Aero and Astro Engr College Aeronautics & Astronautics Department Course Attributes: AE Structures, Upper Division
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  • AAE 55400: Fatigue Of Structures And Materials

    3.00 Credits
    Purdue University-Main Campus

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Development and application of methods for predicting the fatigue life of structural components. Characterization and response of materials to cyclic loading. Fatigue resistant design of aerospace structures. Both fatigue crack initiation and crack propagation concepts are discussed. Typically offered Fall. 3.000 Credit Hours Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture School of Aero and Astro Engr College Aeronautics & Astronautics Department Course Attributes: AE Structures, Upper Division
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  • AAE 55500: Mechanics Of Composite Materials

    3.00 Credits
    Purdue University-Main Campus

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Current and potential applications of composite materials. Review of elasticity of anisotropic solids. Methods for determining mechanical properties of heterogeneous materials. Static and dynamic analyses of laminated composites. Fracture and fatigue of laminates. Reliability, testing, and design of composites. Typically offered Spring. 3.000 Credit Hours Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture School of Aero and Astro Engr College Aeronautics & Astronautics Department Course Attributes: AE Structures, Upper Division
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  • AAE 55600: Aeroelasticity

    3.00 Credits
    Purdue University-Main Campus

    Credit Hours: 3.00. The study of the effect of aerodynamic forces of flexible aircraft. Static aeroelastic problems; control effectiveness; lift effectiveness; divergence. Dynamic aeroelasticity; classical flutter; an introduction to stability augmentation with controls. A review of standard and modern numerical solution techniques; the k-method, the British or p-k method. Typically offered Spring. 3.000 Credit Hours Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture School of Aero and Astro Engr College Aeronautics & Astronautics Department Course Attributes: AE Dynamics & Control, AE Structures, Upper Division
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  • AAE 55700: Inelastic Behavior Of Materials And Structures

    3.00 Credits
    Purdue University-Main Campus

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Yield criterion; stress-strain relations of plasticity; limit analysis and applications to structures; plane strain, slipline fields, applications to metal forming processes; plane stress, field of characteristics; viscoelastic models, their interrelation and associated constitutive equations; applications to boundary value problems. Typically offered Spring. 3.000 Credit Hours Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture School of Aero and Astro Engr College Aeronautics & Astronautics Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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  • AAE 55800: Finite Element Methods In Aerospace Structures

    3.00 Credits
    Purdue University-Main Campus

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Introduction to the use of advanced finite element methods in the calculuation of deformation, strain, and stress in aerospace structures. Topics include: 1-D, 2-D, 3-D, and axisymmetric elements, isoparametric element formulation, convergence, treatment of boundary conditions and constraints. Special topics include stability, dynamic analysis, and nonlinear material behavior. Emphasis is on the theoretical knowledge of the finite element method. Applied experience is gained by solution of aerospace structural analysis problems through use of professional software. The distance offering of this course originates from the West Lafayette campus, is offered through streaming video via ProEd, and may be made available at the Calumet campus. Typically offered Fall. 3.000 Credit Hours Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture School of Aero and Astro Engr College Aeronautics & Astronautics Department Course Attributes: AE Structures, Upper Division
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