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APRI0004-1 Aerospace design project | MECA0058-1 Fracture mechanics, damage and fatigue | MECA0470-1 Alternative numerical methods in continuum mechanics | MECA0028-1 Aircraft Structures

Classes

APRI0004-1 Aerospace design project

Key Learning Outcomes: APRI0004-1

Reference book

• Synthesis of Subsonic Airplane Design, Egbert Torenbeek, Delft University Press, Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands, ISBN 90-246-2724-3, 1982.
• Aircraft Design: A Conceptual Approach, Daniel P. Raymer, Ph.D. AIAA Education Series, Reston, VA, 2012 ISBN 978-1-60086-911-2.
• Snorri Gudmundsson, General Aviation Aircraft Design - Applied Methods and Procedures, 2014.

Slides

• Lecture 1 (Introduction), Lecture 2 (Aerodynamics, taught in Aerodynamics course), Lecture 3 (Propulsion), Lecture 4 (Performance), Lecture 5 (Structures), Lecture 6 (Stability), Lecture 7 (Conceptual design), Lecture (Structure Life), lecture (fighters), Lecture (Payload release), Lecture - (Aeroelasticity).

Project (2024-2025)

Project AIAA (table in word), Call for proposal AIAA.

Schedule (2024-2025)

• Time schedule.

MECA0058-1 Mécanique de la rupture, endommagement et fatigue (Fracture mechanics, damage and fatigue)

Key Learning Outcomes: MECA0058-1

References:

• Lecture Notes on Fracture Mechanics, Alan T. Zehnder, Series: Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics, Vol. 62, 2012, 10.1007/978-94-007-2595-9
• Fracture Mechanics: Fundamentals and applications, D. T. Anderson. CRC press, 1991
• Online class notes

Slides:

• Lecture 1 (Overview), Lecture 2 (Asymptotic Solution), Lecture 3 (Energetic Approach), Lecture 4 (SIF, & Handbook (short version) & Handbook (full version)), Lecture 5 (Crack Growth), Lecture 6 (Ductile failure & Safe Life Design), Lecture 7 (Cohesive Zone), Lecture 8 (HRR Field), Lecture 9 (J-Integral, & Handbook), Lecture 10 (Composites)

Past examinations:

• 2021-2022, 2022-2023, 2023-2024, 2024-2025.

Project (2024-2025):

• Project.

MECA0470-1 Méthodes numériques alternatives en mécanique des milieux continus (Alternative numerical methods in continuum mechanics)

Key Learning Outcomes: MECA0470-1

Slides:

• Lecture 1 (Advanced FEM), Lecture 2 (X-FEM), Lecture 3 (Homogenization), Lecture 4 (Messless, & SPH),Others (FE2, & MFH & DG)

Project (2024-2025):

• Project.

MECA0028-1 Structures Aéronautiques (Aircraft Structures)

Key Learning Outcomes: MECA0028-1

Reference:

• Aircraft Structures for engineering students, T. H. G. Megson, Butterworth-Heinemann, An imprint of Elsevier Science, 2003, ISBN 0 340 70588

Slides:

• Lecture 1 (Overview), Lecture 2 (Beams Part 1), Lecture 3 (Beams Part 2), Lecture 4 (Aircraft Components 1), Lecture 5 (Aircraft Components 2), Lecture 6 (Design Example), Lecture 7 (Composite Idealization), Lecture 8 (Plate 1), Lecture 9 (Plate 2), Lecture 10 (Structural Discontinuities), Lecture 11 (Structural Instabilities), Lecture 12 (Certification), Lecture 13 (Shells)

Past examinations:

• 2019-2020, 2021-2022, 2022-2023, 2023-2024.

Project (2024-2025):

• Project, Project for Erasmus/Individual students.

E-mail: L.Noels @ ulg.ac.be; Address: University of Liège, CM3 B52, Allée de la découverte 9, B4000 Liège, Belgium