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  • 2.00 Credits

    Laboratory experience to complement MANE 4030. Stress and strain measurement; load, fatigue, and failure testing; friction and wear behavior. Reverse engineering of a mechanical assembly. Prerequisites/Corequisites: Corequisite: MANE 4030. When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually. Credit Hours: 2
  • 4.00 Credits

    Introduction to modeling, analysis, and control of dynamic systems. Modeling of mechanical, electrical and electromechanical systems. Time-domain and Laplace-Transform solutions. Block diagrams and transfer functions. Analysis and design of feedback control systems. Control system representation and characteristics. System performance specifications. Absolute stability criteria. Root-Locus and frequency response analysis and design methods. Systems compensation and controller design. Prerequisites/Corequisites: Corequisites: MATH 2400, PHYS 1200. When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually. Credit Hours: 4
  • 3.00 Credits

    Beam structures under combined shear, bending, and torsional loads. Semi-monocoque structures: idealizations involving wings, ribs, and fuselage bulkheads. Effects of taper and cutouts in stiffened shell structures, shear deformations and warping, location of elastic axis in open and closed sections, torsion of multicell sections. Stability of beam and membrane elements. Material considerations and selection. Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ENGR 2530. When Offered: Fall term annually. Credit Hours: 3
  • 3.00 Credits

    The fundamental principles of fluid dynamics, theory of inviscid incompressible flow, thin airfoils, high aspect ratio wings, delta wings, vortex panel and vortex lattice methods, subsonic compressible small-disturbance theory, transonic flow. Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: ENGR 2250 and MANE 2060. When Offered: Fall term annually. Credit Hours: 3
  • 4.00 Credits

    Analysis of thrust generation: propeller theory, combustion, reciprocating engines, gas turbines. One-dimensional compressible flow, Prandtl-Meyer expansions and oblique shock waves, application to diffusers and rocket nozzles. Linearized supersonic flow. Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: MANE 4070 or permission of instructor. When Offered: Fall term annually. Credit Hours: 4
  • 4.00 Credits

    Performance, stability, and control of airplanes. General equations of motion for rigid aircraft, aerodynamic forces and moments, quasi-steady and nonsteady flight paths. Generalized performance methods, flight envelope. Small disturbance theory, stability derivatives, longitudinal and lateral static stability. Basic airplane motion, response to control actions and to atmospheric disturbances. Automatic flight control. Simulation of aircraft performance and dynamics. Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: MANE 4070 or permission of instructor. When Offered: Corequisite: MANE 4050. Fall term annually. Credit Hours: 4
  • 4.00 Credits

    Review of basic dynamics. Analysis of spacecraft trajectories, target rendezvous, and interception. Hohmann transfer, escape trajectories, interplanetary missions, the restricted three-body problem. Rigid body dynamics with application to gyrodynamics, stabilized platforms, gravity-gradient and spin stabilization of satellites, gyrostats. Selected topics such as drag-free satellites, vehicle launch and reentry, deployment dynamics (time permitting). MATLAB/Simulink is used as a simulation-visualization aid. Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: ENGR 2090, MANE 2060, and MATH 2400, or equivalent. When Offered: Spring term annually. Credit Hours: 4
  • 3.00 Credits

    Comprehensive treatment of fluid mechanics for both incompressible and compressible as well as viscous and inviscid flows, with emphasis on fundamental concepts and analytical methods. Topics include review of kinematics of fluid flow, derivation of the Navier-Stokes equations including their boundary conditions, exact solutions of Navier-Stokes equations, similarity solutions including laminar boundary layers, transition to turbulence, and one- and two-dimensional ideal compressible flow. Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: MANE 4010 or equivalent. When Offered: Offered on sufficient demand. Credit Hours: 3
  • 3.00 Credits

    Overview of composite materials technology and applications. Concepts of solid mechanics. Constitutive equations of anisotropic thermo-elasticity. Micromechanics of fibrous and particulate systems. Lamination theory: In-plane and out-of-plane response of symmetric and non-symmetric laminated plates. Thermal and hygrothermal effects. Test methods. Interlaminar stresses. Failure and damage. Joining of laminates. Laminated tubes. Design examples. Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ENGR 2530. When Offered: Spring term annually . Credit Hours: 3
  • 3.00 Credits

    Application of the principles of strength of materials to the analysis and design of machine parts. Curved bars, multisupport shafts, torsion, cylinders under pressure, thermal stresses, creep, and relaxation, rotating disks and other machine elements are considered. When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually. Credit Hours: 3
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