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AERO3465: Aerospace Design 2 (2020 - Semester 2)
| Unit: | AERO3465: Aerospace Design 2 (6 CP) |
| Mode: | Normal-Day |
| On Offer: | Yes |
| Level: | Senior |
| Faculty/School: | School of Aerospace, Mechanical & Mechatronic Engineering |
| Unit Coordinator/s: |
Dr Wong, KC
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| Session options: | Semester 2 |
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| Campus: | Camperdown/Darlington |
| Pre-Requisites: | AMME2301 AND MECH2400. |
| Brief Handbook Description: | This unit aims to develop an understanding of the aerospace industry procedures for design, analysis, and testing of aircraft and aerospace vehicle components. It provides a Design-Build-Test experience by putting into practice, learning outcomes from this and other previously completed UoS, through working on a small structure which is representative of a typical light metal aircraft. Students will be introduced to typical metallic and composite materials and structures for aerospace vehicles. The unit also provides an introduction to fatigue and damaged tolerance analysis of metallic aircraft structures. Experiential learning opportunities are provided to acquire skills and knowledge in structural design, analyses, testing methods, procedures, techniques, and equipment. On satisfactory completion of this unit students will have gained practical skills relevant to working on typical modern aircraft and aerospace vehicle components. They will learn from methods, techniques, and experiences from the modern aerospace industry. Experiential learning is enhanced through verifying analyses with actual testing of fabricated component, and the experience of a full design-build-test cycle of a typical aerospace structural component. Subject areas covered will include design methods, internal loads calculations, stress analysis, design for manufacture, joints and fasteners, test procedures, fatigue and damage tolerance, composites, and the art of design. |
| Assumed Knowledge: | AERO1400 AND AMME2302 AND AMME1362. |
| Lecturer/s: |
Mr White, Kim
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| Timetable: | AERO3465 Timetable | |||||||||||||||
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| T&L Activities: | Tutorial: These are combinations of tutorial and supervised practical sessions. |
Learning outcomes are the key abilities and knowledge that will be assessed in this unit. They are listed according to the course goal supported by each. See Assessment Tab for details how each outcome is assessed.
(7) Project and Team Skills (Level 4)
1. Being able to work effectively in a team and the management of schedules to optimise workflow to meet project deadlines.
(8) Professional Effectiveness and Ethical Conduct (Level 4)
2. The ability to conduct and document engineering decisions, analyses, designs, manufacturing, and outcome of the project, to a standard typically required in the aerospace industry.
(6) Communication and Inquiry/ Research (Level 3)
3. The ability to produce a test plan, to set up and professionally conduct the required tests, to record and analyse test data for the completed structural component.
4. The ability to produce engineering drawings to manufacture the designed component.
(4) Design (Level 4)
5. The ability for creative and optimal design of an airframe component to meet given constraints and performance targets.
6. "Wow, theory works; I can do this now."
(2) Engineering/ IT Specialisation (Level 3)
7. Knowledge and skills in analysing fatigue and damage tolerance in airframes.
8. The ability to apply basic mathematical and engineering principles to design an airframe component in detail.
9. Familiarity with aircraft grade material, and the ability to discern practicality and manufacturability of the designed component.
10. Knowledge in the significance of fatigue and damage tolerance considerations in the design and operation of aircraft.
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| Assessment Description: |
Assignment: Assignment task on airframe fatigue and damage tolerance. Project: Design-Build-Test Project: engineering stress report, cost report, weight report, test plan and tests, drawings, and conclusions. PDR, CDR, Stress Report: Assignments to keep track of project progress and provide learning feedback on design project. Final Report should include any revisions of previous submissions, the test report, and peer assessments. |
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| Policies & Procedures: | See the policies page of the faculty website at http://sydney.edu.au/engineering/student-policies/ for information regarding university policies and local provisions and procedures within the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies. |
Note that the "Weeks" referred to in this Schedule are those of the official university semester calendar https://web.timetable.usyd.edu.au/calendar.jsp
| Week | Description |
| Week 1 | # Design project |
| Week 2 | # Design project |
| Week 3 | # Design project |
| Assessment Due: Preliminary Design Review | |
| Week 4 | # Design project |
| Week 5 | # Design project |
| Assessment Due: Critical Design Review | |
| Week 6 | # Design project |
| Week 7 | # Design project |
| Week 8 | # Design project (Construction Phase) |
| Assessment Due: Stress and Design Summary | |
| Assessment Due: Engineering Drawings | |
| Week 9 | # Design project (Construction Phase) |
| Assessment Due: Test Plan | |
| Week 10 | # Design project (Construction phase) |
| Assessment Due: Completed Structure | |
| Assessment Due: Conduct Test | |
| Week 11 | # Fatigue & Damage Tolerance |
| Assessment Due: Final Project Report | |
| Week 12 | # Fatigue & Damage Tolerance |
| Week 13 | # Fatigue & Damage Tolerance |
| Assessment Due: Fatigue and Damage Tolerance Assignment |
Course Relations
The following is a list of courses which have added this Unit to their structure.
Course Goals
This unit contributes to the achievement of the following course goals:
| Attribute | Practiced | Assessed |
| (7) Project and Team Skills (Level 4) | No | 13.42% |
| (8) Professional Effectiveness and Ethical Conduct (Level 4) | No | 10.98% |
| (6) Communication and Inquiry/ Research (Level 3) | No | 17.19% |
| (5) Interdisciplinary, Inclusiveness, Influence (Level 4) | No | 0% |
| (3) Problem Solving and Inventiveness (Level 4) | No | 0% |
| (4) Design (Level 4) | No | 18.98% |
| (2) Engineering/ IT Specialisation (Level 3) | No | 39.45% |
These goals are selected from Engineering & IT Graduate Outcomes Table 2018 which defines overall goals for courses where this unit is primarily offered. See Engineering & IT Graduate Outcomes Table 2018 for details of the attributes and levels to be developed in the course as a whole. Percentage figures alongside each course goal provide a rough indication of their relative weighting in assessment for this unit. Note that not all goals are necessarily part of assessment. Some may be more about practice activity. See Learning outcomes for details of what is assessed in relation to each goal and Assessment for details of how the outcome is assessed. See Attributes for details of practice provided for each goal.
