Course detail

Selected Chapters from Manufacture and Assembly of Aircraft Structures

FSI-9VLKAcad. year: 2017/2018

Advanced aircraft metal and composite materials, methods of their processing. Influence of technological processing on static and dynamic structural performance. Progress in processing and joining technologies - heat treatment, forming, cutting, manufacture of composite structures, welding of light alloys, adhesive bonding, riveting, hybride joining, surface engineering, manufacture of integral structures. Technological techniques improving fatigue properties of structures. Degradation influence of working conditions.

Language of instruction

Czech, English

Number of ECTS credits

2

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Ing. Josef Klement, CSc.

Department

Institute of Aerospace Engineering (LÚ)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Not applicable.

Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The course is taught through tutorials concerning the basic principles and theory of the discipline.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Evaluation is based on a report from a specified problems and on oral examination.

Course curriculum

Not applicable.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The aim of the course is to extent knowledge obtained during Aircraft Design study programme in relation with the focus of doctoral study.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Not applicable.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

ASM Handbook, Vol 21, Composites, ASM International 2001
DIN-DVS-Taschenbuch 215, Schweisstechnik in Luft- und Raumfahrt, Beuth.DVS-Verlag 1998
F.C.Campbell: Manufacturing Technology for Aerospace Structural Materials. Elsevier, 2006. ISBN-13: 978-1-85-617495-4. (EN)
Killing R.: Welding Processes and Thermal Cutting, ISBN 3-87155-790-0, Düsseldorf 2001
Lee Lieng-Huang. Adhesive Bonding, Plenum Press, London 1991.
Michna Š. a kol.: Encyklopedie hliníku, ISBN 80-89041-88-4, Prešov, 2005
Vlot A.,Gunnink J. W.: Fibre Metal Laminates, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001

Recommended reading

Baker, A.: Composite materials for aircraft structures, AIAA 2004, ISBN 1-56347-540-5
Killing, R.: Welding processes and Thermal Cutting, DVS-Verlag, Düsseldorf, 2001
Metals Handbook, Vol.2 Heat treating, cleaning and finishing, ASM, Metals Park Ohio
Michna, Š. a kol.: Encyklopedie hliníku, ISBN 80-89041-88-4, Prešov 2005

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

20 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Josef Klement, CSc.

Syllabus

1. Introduction, new metal, composite and hybrid materials
2. Advances in heat treatment of aluminum alloys
3. Shot peen forming, age forming of panels
4. High speed machining of integral panels
5. Riveting, cold working of holes and its influence on crack initiation and propagation
6. Special welding techniques for high strength aluminium alloys - FSW, LBW
7. Adhesive bonding and hybrid joining of aircraft structures
8. RFI, RTM and autoclave methods of composite parts manufacture
9. Surface engineering - anodization, shot peening, supersonic particles deposition
10. Influence of working conditions on metal and/or composite structures performance