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AOE-3124: Aerospace Structures

Description: Inertia loads on aerospace structures, introduction to 3D elasticity including strain-displacement relations, stress-strain relations, stress transformation, and equations of equilibrium, plane stress and plane strain elasticity, stress concentration factors, aerospace materials and failure criteria, margins of safety analysis, plate bending, structural stability.

Pathways: N/A

Course Hours: 3 credits

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: N/A

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 16

Average GPA: 3.21 (rounds to B+)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 30.90%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 2.31%

Mayuresh J Patil202054.7%32.4%10.7%1.5%0.0%0.8%3.354
Rakesh K Kapania202430.2%43.0%19.5%2.3%2.1%2.9%3.007
Yao Fu202467.2%24.1%5.9%1.5%0.2%1.1%3.534
Staff Povolny202136.4%24.3%18.2%9.1%3.0%9.1%2.901

Grade Distribution Over Time

1234GPA
Spring 2019Fall 2019Spring 2020Fall 2020Spring 2021Fall 2021Spring 2022Fall 2022Spring 2023Fall 2023Spring 2024Fall 2024Term050% W