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SUBJECTS IN ENGINEERING
AERONAUTICS
PROFESSORS: THEODORE VON KARMAN, HARRY BATEMAN, CLARK B. MILLIKAN
ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS: ARTHUR L. KLEIN, IRVING P. KRICK, ERNEST E. SECHLER
ASSISTANT PROFESSORS: ALBERT E. LOMBARD, JR., WILLIAM R. SEARS
INSTRUCTORS: LOUIS G. DUNN, ROBERT D. ELLIOTT, RAY H. ODELL, WILLIAM H.
REMPEL, PAUL E. RUCH, H. J. STEWART, NEWTON C. STONE
UNDERGRADUATE SUBJECTS
AE. 2 a, b. Aircraft Structures. 12 units; second and third terms.
Prerequisite: AM. 1 c.
A subject .dapted for students planning to take post-graduate work in Aeronautics.
The course includes the analysis of forces by analytical and graphical
methods and the calculation of stresses in beams, girders, columns, shafts and simple
trusses of timber, steel and light alloys; study of continuous beams; beams under
combined lateral and axial loads; trusses with redundant members; effect of flexure
and direct stress; deflections in beams and trusses; tapered columns; circular rings;
thin wall structures; loads upon an airplane.
Text: Aircraft Structures, Vols. 1 and 2, Niles and Newell.
Instructor: Dunn.
S.e also ME. 8.
FIFTH-YEAR AND ADVANCED SUBJECTS
AB. 251 a, b, c. Aerodynamics of the Airplane. 9 units; first, second and
third terms.
Prerequisites: AM. 1 a, b.
Airfoils, wings, and tail groups, stability and control, drag, performance and
spinning.
Texts: Technical Aerodynamics, Wood; Engineering Aerodynamics, Diehl; Airplane
Design, Warner.
Instructor: Millikan.
AE. 252 a, b, c. Airplane Design, 12 units; first, second and third terms.
Prerequisites: AM. 1 a, b, c, AM. 3, ME. 8.
The solution of problems connected with the structural design and analysis of
complete airplanes, with special emphasis being placed on the problems dealing with
monocoque construction. AE. 252 must be taken concurrently with or subsequently
to 251.
Texts: Airplane Structures, Niles and Newell; Airplane Design, K. D. Wood.
Instructors: Sechler, Dunn.
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