Engineering Structures - ZEIT3500
Faculty: UNSW Canberra at ADFA
School: School of Engineering & Information Technology @ UNSW Canberra at ADFA
Course Outline: ZEIT3500 Course Outline
Campus: UNSW Canberra at ADFA
Career: Undergraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 5
Enrolment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ZEIT2504
CSS Contribution Charge: 2 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
Description
This course extends the concepts of Mechanics of Solids to applications of Structural Mechanics in Aeronautical and Mechanical Engineering. The topics treated will include bending of indeterminate beams and unsymmetric beams, torsion and transverse loading of thin walled and stiffened structures, energy methods of structural analysis, failure analysis of metallic structures, introduction to fracture mechanics and fatigue behaviour.