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Concepts of structural design; Van diagram; airworthiness requirements Stress resultants for swept and un-swept wings; application of modified beam theory Methods for wing stress analysis; yielding based design Buckling (of columns, panels and stiffened panels) based design of thin structures Rib spacing; sizing and preliminary layout of wing; margin of safety; advanced analysis (using FEM based commercial/open source software)for full wing. Total Laboratory component of the course: Topic Concepts of structural design; Vn diagram; airworthiness requirements; stress resultants for swept and un-swept wings; application of modified beam theory; methods for wing stress analysis; yielding based design; buckling (of columns, panels and stiffened panels) based design of thin structures; rib spacing; sizing and preliminary layout of wing; margin of safety; advanced analysis (using FEM based commercial/open source software) for full wing. 

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