SE department

SE 160A. Aerospace Structural Mechanics I (4 units)

Link to catalog page: https://catalog.ucsd.edu/courses/SE.html#se160a

Description

Aircraft and spacecraft flight loads and operational envelopes, three-dimensional stress/strain relations, metallic and composite materials, failure theories, three-dimensional space trusses and stiffened shear panels, combined extension-bend-twist behavior of thin-walled multicell aircraft and space vehicle structures, modulus-weighted section properties, shear center. Prerequisites: SE 105 or MAE 21 and SE 101B or MAE 30B and SE 110A or MAE 131A.

Prerequisite courses

Successor courses

SE 160A is a prerequisite of the following 2 courses:

• MAE 155A
• SE 160B