Overview

This course will begin by covering the fundamental aspects of classical laminated plate theory to provide participants with the required knowledge and skills to be able to critically assess the benefits and penalties associated with using composite laminates in place of metals. It will also demonstrate, through the development of spreadsheet design tools and the use of design databases, how to achieve performance improvements with respect to buckling, strength and thermal shape stability characteristics, through comparisons between conventional and non-conventional designs.

Teaching Team

What You’ll Learn

Topic 1:
  • Critically assess the benefits and penalties associated with using composite laminates in place of metals
    • Topic 2:
  • Understand and apply stiffness and compliance matrices for orthotropic laminates in fibre-aligned and general coordinate systems.
    • Topic 3:
  • Calculate strains and stresses in a general laminate given a set of applied loads.
    • Topic 4:
  • Calculate the material failure stresses.
    • Topic 5:
  • Calculate the thermal response due to high temperature curing.
    • Topic 6:
  • Calculate the initial buckling stress for composite plates.
    • Topic 7:
  • Perform Stiffness and Strength tailoring with non-conventional laminate designs to achieve specific performance characteristics.

    • Who Should Attend

    • Graduates of Aeronautical and Mechanical Engineering degree programs, who wish to gain deeper insights in the analysis and design of laminated composite materials
    • Practicing engineers who require new skills and/or further evidence that non-conventional designs can lead to potential weight savings, improved performance and reduced manufacturing times.


    Prerequisites

    Mechanical or Aeronautical Engineering degree.

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    Certificate and Assessment

    A Certificate of Participation will be issued to participants who:

    • Attend at least 75% of the course
    • Undertake non-credit bearing assessment during the course

    Schedule

    Day 1: 5 Mar 2021

    Welcome and Registration
    Introduction to Laminated Plate Theory
    Flat Laminates – Kirchhoff Hypothesis
    Plane Stress Assumption
    End of Day
     

    Day 2: 12 Mar 2021

    Force and Moment Resultants
    The ABD relation
    Design Rules
    End of Day

    Day 3: 19 Mar 2021

    Stress-Strain relationships for Thermal effects
    Failure criteria
    Lamination Parameters and Laminate Databases
    End of Day

    Day 4: 26 Mar 2021

    Buckling of laminated plates
    Non-conventional Laminate Designs
    Tailoring for Strength and Stiffness
    End of Day

    Fees

    Category Full Fee After SF Funding
    Singapore Citizen (Below 40) / Singapore PR $1,712.00 $513.60
    Singapore Citizen (40 & above) $1,712.00 $193.60
    Non-Singaporeans $1,712.00 Not Eligible
     
    Note:
    • All figures include GST. GST applies to individuals and Singapore-registered companies.
    • You can opt for either SkillsFuture Funding or Mid-Career Enhanced Subsidy. Both cannot be combined.

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    Terms & Conditions:

    SkillsFuture Funding

    To be eligible for the 70% training grant awarded, applicants (and/or their sponsoring organisations where applicable) must:
    1. Be a Singaporean Citizen or Singapore Permanent Resident
    2. Not receive any other funding from government sources in respect of the actual grant disbursed for the programme

    SkillsFuture Mid-Career Enhanced Subsidy

    To be eligible for the 90% enhanced subsidy awarded, applicants (and/or their sponsoring organisations where applicable) must:
    1. Be a Singaporean Citizen
    2. Be at least 40 years old
    3. Not receive any other funding from government sources in respect of the actual grant disbursed for the programme

    SIT reserves the right to collect the balance of the programme fees (i.e. the potential grant amount) directly from the applicants (and/or their sponsoring organisations where applicable) should the above requirements not be fulfilled.

    SIT reserves the right to make changes to published course information, including dates, times, venues, fees and instructors without prior notice.

    Key Info

    Venue SIT@Dover, 10 Dover Drive S138683
    Time 09:00 AM to 06:00 PM
    Date 05 Mar 2021 (Fri) to
    26 Mar 2021 (Fri)
    Registration is Closed.

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