Course Contents The global course setup is such that there lectures contain the following topics:
- Thoughts behind lightness
- Design allowables
- Interaction between materials processes
- Materials and their properties
- Essentials of manufacturing
- Processing to final products and their applications.
- The principles of stresses in laminated composites
- Recycling and other environmental aspects.
- The principles of repair of structures.
Guest lectures will be illustrating the course content.
Study Goals After succeeding this course the student should be able to:
- explain parameters and their relationships, which play a role in the development of lightweight structures and parts.
Examples:
- be able to judge a structural design on conditions required to call a design a lightweight design.
- be able to identify carbon glass aramid and dyneema fibres
- be able to identify metals from composites on micro and macro scale.
- be able to relate lightweight materials to typical strong and weak points in their performance.
- be able to give examples of fibre morphologies
- be able to argue the correlation between fibre content, orientation control, fibre length, manufacturing process and application.
- be able to recall & argue unwanted stress distributions in composite materials
