Name of the laboratory: Aerospace Structures Laboratory
Location: Aero Hangar
Established year: 2013
Faculty in charge: Mr. S Chandra Sekhar
Lab Instructor: Mr. N.R.Choudhury
Resources:
- Cantilever beam C section
- Cantilever beam D section
- Cantilever beam Z-section
- Constant strength beam
- Cantilever beam hollow section
- Column testing apparatus (Pinned-pinned ends)
- Deflection of beam set up (Fixed supports and pinned supports)
- Hinged bar suspended by wires of two different materials
- Wagner beam
- Thin-walled cylindrical pressure vessel
- Universal vibration test facility apparatus
List of experiments:
- Determination of shear center of an open section.
- Determination of shear center of a closed section.
- Determination of the principal axes of an unsymmetrical section.
- To check the design aspects of a constant strength beam
- Determination of principal stresses and position of principal planes of a hollow circular shaft subjected to combined loading.
- Determination of the critical load of a column using south well plot.
- Verification of Maxwell Reciprocal Theorem.
- Verification of Principle of superposition.
- Investigation of the structural behaviour of a semi-tension field beam.
- Determination of the hoop stress and meridional stress in a thin-walled cylinder subjected to internal pressure.
- Determination of the ratio of forces carried by each wire in a system of a hinged bar suspended by two wires of different materials.
A faculty development program has been organized in“Data Acquisition using Labview in Aerospace Applications” during September 16-19, 2017 in connection with the Aerospace Structures laboratory.