Design of Lightweight Structures I: Composites and Metals

The global course setup is such that the lectures contain the following topics:

- Thoughts behind lightness

- Design allowables

- Interaction between materials processes

- Materials and their properties

- Essentials of manufacturing

- Processing to final products and their applications.

- The principles of stresses in laminated composites

- Recycling and other environmental aspects.

- The principles of repair of structures.

Guest lectures will be illustrating the course content.

Written exam, with grades converted to whole or half numbers. In case of 100 points the following distribution is most often used

<points>[grade]: <0-14>[1]; <15>[1.5];<16-24>[2];<25>[2.5];<26-34>[3]; <35>[3.5];<36-49>[4]; <50>[4.5];<51-54>[5]; <55>[5.5];<56-64>[6]; <65>[6.5];<66-74>[7]; <75>[7.5];<76-84>[8]; <85>[8.5];<86-94>[9]; <95>[9.5];<96-100>[10];