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EAS4200C: Aerospace Structures 1

Honor Code statement:

Each member of Team Carbon will respect the University Honor Code and to indicate that they contributed to the group work for the week. "On my honor, I certify that I have neither given nor received any unauthorized aid on this assignment."

Jeffrey O'Rear

Jeffrey Wright

Abby Booth

Beau Guidry

Aaron J Clausen

Brian Taylor

=Course Information=

Course Website: www.mae.ufl.edu/~vql → "teaching" → "my course website" → "EAS4200C Aerospace Structures" EAS4200c Course website

Password: fall08.wiki

Office: 135 NEB - MWF 9th (office hours)

=Course Content=

The Finite Element Method (FEM) makes solving partial differential equations (PDEs) convenient. This is integral to the study of Aerospace Structures, or its structural components.

The emphasis of the course will be to understand structural mechanics, formulate problems, judge solution correctness, and avoid ad-hoc structural analysis methods.

The plan of the course is to maintain confidentiality while using large-scale peer-to-peer domains including Wikiversity and MIT's OpenCourseWare in addition to the textbook. The course will examine the method of work instead of other approaches such as e-learning and the old approach to this class (10% HW and 30% x 3 for each exam). This format allows students to be introduced to MediaWiki and stimulate collaboration with other students, teams, the professor, and the class as a whole.

There are several relevant time zones important to us (UTC, EDT, and EST). HW will be turned in according to the UTC time to maintain consistency with the Wikipedia time stamp format.

HW shortcuts should be created by attaching the URL from the archived version by going to "History" → click on the date to open archived version → copy this address to submit.

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It is important that during this course we learn how and why some things work and others do not. It's also important to expand our ability to articulate problems, solve them and judge that our answer is reasonable. Finite Element Analysis (FEA) of Aircraft Structures is important to study for safety, longevity, and efficiency. An example of insufficient FEA in engineering is the recent Minnesota bridge collapse.

=Discussion= I think we could be considered very close to the top three reports. We could expand our incorporation of textual support, related details, and textbook supplementary information. Overall, in viewing class reports that were posted, I think we did fairly well. Good job on the advanced work of Problem 1.1! Eas4200c.f08.carbon.orear

For help with wiki math formatting, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Math Eas4200c.f08.carbon.clausen 14:22, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

=Homework=


 * Week 1 Notes
 * Problem 1.1
 * Homework 2 (current version)
 * Homework 3 (current version)
 * Homework 4 (current version)
 * Homework 5 (current version)
 * Homework 6 (current version)
 * Homework 1 (current version) Please submit this link (archived version) with HW 2 (send 2 links total)
 * Homework 7 (current version)