Research and briefly discuss your understanding of the basic structural stress types such as tension, compression, torsion, shear and bending.
For this week’s assignment, answer the following questions.
Research and briefly discuss your understanding of the basic structural stress types such as tension, compression, torsion, shear and bending. This source may help but use any that you like. https://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/handbooks_manuals/aviation/media/amt_airframe_hb_vol_1.pdf
Research and briefly discuss your understanding of the difference between stress and strain. Include your descriiption of Young’s Modulus is.
Research and discuss the difference between “safe life” verses “fail safe”
What does Damage Tolerance mean and what are the typical features? FAA AC 23-13A https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Advisory_Circular/AC_23-13A.pdf
That will be enough questions for this assignment. The next assignment will be examining an accident that directly relates to the items you have learned in this one, so keep it handy.
For this week, you have quite a bit to do, so I do not APA formatting. Make your document good and readable for grading, and list any outside sources at the end of your document. This assignment is about getting exposed to the material and quite a bit less about APA formatting. We will get back to the APA formatting for the accident case studies.