Introduces students to the fundamentals of Aerospace structures and materials. Topics include: types of load and support; inertia loads in aerospace structures; statistically determinate and indeterminate structures; beam shear and bending moment diagrams; concept of stress and strain; stress-strain relationships; bending and shear analysis of beams; torsion of thin-walled beams; combined stresses; metallic and non-metallic materials and their properties; failure of materials; fatigue and creep; aluminium alloys classes, properties, and uses in web-stiffener aerospace structures; composite materials classes, properties, and uses in aerospace structures.

Pre-requisites: PHYS101