Airframe design is strongly linked to aircraft mission and performance. This module will cover the influences of these for subsonic, fixed wing aircraft in order to design airframes and their controls to deal with a range of ‘dead’ and ‘live’ loads through the complete flight envelope. This module will develop students’ ability and confidence to use practical, mathematical and numerical methods to analyse and fulfil a set of requirements related to aero-structures.
This links to the requirements for students in the QAA Materials benchmark statement 2017 of “fluency in mathematics, and familiarity with a range of mathematical and computational methods, for expressing the laws of science, for formulating and solving problems” and the AHEP3 learning outcomes
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this module, students will be able to:
Will be able to describe the configurations and designs of fixed-wing aircraft and discuss their performance in a range of operating environments;
Will be able to suggest configurations for a range of performance criteria and ‘dead’ loads;
Will be able to apply vector analysis of the dynamics (both kinematics and kinetics) of two-dimensional rigid body systems with applications to simple linked systems of rods, gears and wheels;
Will be able to measure, analyse and write up ‘live’ and ‘dead’ loads experimentally through laboratory classes;
Will be able to verify the dimensional consistency of solutions and explain their trustworthiness.
These link to the AHEP3 learning outcomes:
Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of mathematical and statistical methods necessary to underpin their education in their engineering discipline and to enable them to apply mathematical and statistical methods, tools and notations proficiently in the analysis and solution of engineering problems (SM2);
Understand engineering principles and the ability to apply them to analyse key engineering processes (EA1).