11493 - Aircraft and Aerospace Design

Learning outcomes

Aim of the course is:
- to introduce the fundamental concerns about the representation of parts and assemblies related to aerospace and industrial engeneering,
- to expertise the student in reading and understanding technical drawings according to standards and ISO rules -
- to expertise the student in the classification of parts, components, plants and systems used in aerospace vehicles.

Course contents

Introduction to the course. Papers and instruments for design and drawings. Standard lines; inscriptions; basic geometrical constructions; rules of orthogonal projection methods; sections; cavalier and isometric perspective. Standards in technical design; type of drawing: parts, assembly, installation, exploded, for manufacturing. Technological tests and materials classification. Applications and nomenclature of materials used in aerospace: steel, alluminum, magnesium, titanium, composite materials (glass, carbon, kevlar fibres); thermal processing. Standard numbers; Renard series; dimensional and geometrical tolerances; roughness; micro and macro geometrical errors. Joints; threaded connections; hot and cold riveting; shaft-hub joints; conical elements joints; other joints; articulated joints and guide. Llubrication methods. Plain bearings; rolling bearings; bearings assemblies; seal systems. Elastic and rigid joints; transmissions with belts and pulleys; friction wheels, gears; worm gears and ca. Design and sketching of aerospace components. 

Readings/Bibliography

Notes of the teacher
Manfè, Pozza, Scarato - Disegno Meccanico – Principato Editore, Milano,  Voll. 1, 2  e 3
Chirone, Tornincasa – Disegno Tecnico Industriale – Edizione Capitello, Torino, Voll. 1 e 2
UNI M1, Norme per il disegno tecnico, UNI, Milano.
Megson, Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students, Fourth Edition (Elsevier Aerospace Engineering)

Teaching methods

Lessons of theory and laboratory for drawing activities

Assessment methods

Realization of a constructon drawing of a single part extracted from an assembly; oral examination with questions about lesson topics presented during the course; checking about the realization by the student of 20 drawings to be sketched by hand or with the help of drawing tools.

Teaching tools

Overhead projector

Slides projected from teacher's PC

Chalk and blackboard

Links to further information

http://www.diem.ing.unibo.it/personale/ceruti/

Office hours

See the website of Alessandro Ceruti