Checking date: 21/01/2025


Course: 2024/2025

Mechanics applied to Aerospace Engineering
(14165)
Bachelor in Aerospace Engineering (Plan: 421 - Estudio: 251)


Coordinating teacher: MERINO MARTINEZ, MARIO

Department assigned to the subject: Aerospace Engineering Department

Type: Compulsory
ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

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Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)
Calculus I, Calculus II, Linear Algebra, Physics I. We strongly advise you against taking this course if you have not passed Physics I yet.
Objectives
The goal of this course is that the student acquires a basic knowledge of classical mechanics applied to flight mechanics and aerospace systems.
Skills and learning outcomes
CB2: Students are able to apply their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional manner and possess the competences usually demonstrated through the development and defence of arguments and problem solving within their field of study. CB5: Students will have developed the learning skills necessary to undertake further study with a high degree of autonomy. CG5: Ability to carry out projection activities, technical management, expert appraisal, drafting of reports, opinions, and technical advice in tasks related to Aeronautical Technical Engineering, the exercise of genuinely aerospace technical functions and positions. CG9: Ability to analyse and solve aerospace problems in new or unknown environments, within broad and complex contexts, integrated in multidisciplinary and international work teams. CG10: Ability to use computational and experimental tools for the analysis and quantification of engineering problems. CE.CRA4: Understand how aerodynamic forces determine the dynamics of flight and the role of the different variables involved in the phenomenon of flight. CE.CRA11: Adequate knowledge and application to engineering of: The fundamental elements of the various types of aircraft; the functional elements of the air navigation system and associated electrical and electronic installations; the fundamentals of airport design and construction and their various elements. CE.CRA13: Applied knowledge of: the science and technology of materials; mechanics and thermodynamics; fluid mechanics; aerodynamics and flight mechanics; navigation and air traffic systems; aerospace technology; theory of structures; air transport; economics and production; projects; environmental impact. RA1: Have basic knowledge and understanding of mathematics, basic sciences, and engineering within the aerospace field, including: behaviour of structures; thermodynamic cycles and fluid mechanics; the air navigation system, air traffic, and coordination with other means of transport; aerodynamic forces; flight dynamics; materials for aerospace use; manufacturing processes; airport infrastructures and buildings. In addition to a specific knowledge and understanding of the specific aircraft and aero-engine technologies in each of the subjects included in this degree. RA2: Be able to identify aerospace engineering problems, recognise specifications, collect and interpret data and information, establish different resolution methods and select the most appropriate among the available alternatives. RA3: Be able to carry out designs in the field of aerospace vehicles, propulsion systems, navigation and air traffic control, airport infrastructures, or equipment and materials for aerospace use, which comply with the required specifications, collaborating with other engineers and graduates. RA4: Graduates will be able to carry out initial research methods approaches commensurate with their level of knowledge involving literature searches, design and execution of experiments, data interpretation, selection of the best proposal and computer simulation. RA6: Have the necessary skills for the practice of engineering in today's society.
Description of contents: programme
0 Introduction - Newton's laws - Scalar and vector quantities - Review of vector calculus - Degrees of freedom and constraints 1 Kinematics of point particles - Reference frames - Position, velocity and acceleration - Planar motion - Tangential and normal components - Relative motion - Rotations - Relations between position, velocity and acceleration using translating and rotating axes 2 Dynamics of point particles - Force and momentum - Work and energy - Rectilinear motion. Vibrations. - Motion of a free particle - Motion of a particle over a curve - Motion of a particle over a surface - Relative dynamics - Angular momentum - Central forces - Kepler's problem - Elliptical trajectories 3 Kinematics of a rigid body - Velocity and acceleration fields - Properties of the velocity field - The Euler angles 4 Geometry of masses - Center of mass - Moments of inertia - Moment of inertia tensor - Steiner's theorem - Principal axes 5 Rigid body dynamics - Linear momentum - Angular momentum - Kinetic energy - General equations for a system of particles - General equations for the rigid body - Equilibrium - Work and energy principles 6 Systems of rigid bodies - General equations - Constraints and linkages 7. Torque-free motion of the rigid body - Kinematics - Dynamics and conservation laws - Polhode and herpolode. Stability 8 The airplane as a point particle - Airplane parts - Forces on the airplane: Lift, drag, aerodynamic moments - Straight and level flight - Gliding flight - Climbing flight
Learning activities and methodology
Theory sessions in master classes (flipped classroom methodology will be followed) Problem sessions in reduced groups Lab-sessions and computer sessions with mathematical software Personal and group work
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination 60
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 40

Calendar of Continuous assessment


Extraordinary call: regulations
Basic Bibliography
  • J. H. Ginsberg. Engineering Dynamics. Cambridge Univ. Press. 2007
Recursos electrónicosElectronic Resources *
Additional Bibliography
  • A.C. Kermode. Mechanics of Flight. Pearson. 2012
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The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.