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.