Introduction to Aerospace Structures and Materials
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How do you design an aircraft or spacecraft? And in doing so, how do you keep the risk of failure minimal while bearing in mind that they will eventually fail?
In this course you will be taken on a journey through the structural and material design of aircraft. You will see and understand how aircraft and spacecraft are manufactured, and learn how safety is enshrined at every stage.
Experts from the Aerospace Structures and Materials Department of Delft University of Technology will help you explore and analyze the mechanical properties of materials; learning about manufacturing techniques, fatigue, loads and stresses, design considerations and more - all the scientific and engineering principles that structural and materials engineers face on a daily basis. By the end of the course, you will have learned to think like they do!
Join us for an exciting learning experience that includes experiments; some of which you can do by yourself at home, online lectures, quizzes, and design assignments.
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Jos Sinke
Calvin Rans
Dr. Calvin Rans is an associate professor within the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. He also holds an adjunct professorship at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Rans’ research interests lay in developing a mechanistic understanding of the failure and degradation of lightweight aircraft materials and structures. True structural optimization that aims at minimizing weight without sacrificing safety can only be achieved by a thorough understanding of failure and failure progression. With such knowledge, structures can be designed to fail in a slow, progressive, and obvious manner, enabling failures to be detected and repaired long before they become critical to the safety of the aircraft. This design philosophy is known as Damage Tolerant Design and is the motivating driver for Rans’ work. Recently, Rans' work in fatigue and damage tolerance has branched out into the emerging field of Additive Layer Manufacturing (ALM), also commonly known as 3D-printing. The design freedom allowed by this manufacturing technique enables structural designs with complexities and topologies that were previously the realm of science fiction. The technology enables new novel weight-optimized structures, but the question remains how do we certify them? In order to answer this, we need to determine the impact of the new manufacturing method on fatigue, degradation, and durability, and link this to the design and optimization procedure. He has taught Bachelor level course in the field of Solid Mechanics and Composite Materials and Graduate level courses in Fatigue and Damage Tolerance, Lightweight Structures, Forensic Engineering, and Joining Methods. Dr. Rans was elected TU Delft Lecturer of the Year 2018, and in 2019, he was awarded the “Teacher of the Year” award in The Netherlands. He was praised for his ability to inspire his students and for his continual efforts to improve his lectures.
Gillian Saunders-Smits
Gillian Saunders-Smits is a Senior Lecturer/ Associate Professor at the Faculty of Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands specializing in Engineering Education within the Robotics department. She has been teaching (aerospace) engineering for more than 20 years and has served as the online education coordinator, project education coordinator and Master track coordinator.
From 2000–2022 she worked at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, and from 2020-2022 she was seconded to the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Education and Learning (LDE-CEL).
She actively develops online courses and platforms for open learning. She received her MSc and PhD from Delft University of Technology in 1998 and 2008, respectively, and was nominated for the edX award in 2021/22.
René Alderliesten
René Alderliesten is an associate professor in Aerospace Structures and Materials at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands specializing in fatigue and damage tolerance of aerospace materials and structures. He received his MSc and PhD from Delft University of Technology in 1999 and 2005 respectively. Since 2020 he is section leader of the Structural Integrity and Composites research group.
Julie Teuwen
Julie Teuwen is an Assistant Professor in Aerospace Structures and Materials at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands specializing in manufacturing of fibre-reinforced polymer composites. She received her MSc and PhD from Delft University of Technology in 2006 and 2011 respectively.
Katharina Ertman
Katharina Ertman, aka Mrs. Hannah Hypothesis, MSc., is a lecturer in Aerospace Structures and Materials at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands specializing in creating online engineering education. She received her BSc from Johns Hopkins University in 2016 and MSc from Delft University of Technology in 2020.