Airframe Maintenance and Repair detailed syllabus for Aeronautical Engineering (Aero) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the Aero students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Aeronautical Engineering 6th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit Aero 6th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-V scheme and its subjects refer to Aero Professional Elective-V syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of airframe maintenance and repair is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
MAINTENANCE OF AIRCRAFT STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS
Equipments used in welding shop and their maintenance – Ensuring quality welds – Welding jigs and fixtures – Soldering and brazing – laser welding. Sheet metal repair and maintenance: Selection of materials; Repair schemes; Fabrication of replacement patches; Tools – power/hand; Repair techniques; Peening – Close tolerance fasteners; Sealing compounds; forming/shaping; Calculation of weight of completed repair; Effect of weight – change on surrounding structure. Sheet metal inspection – N.D.T. Riveted repair design – Damage investigation – Reverse engineering.
Unit II
PLASTICS AND COMPOSITES IN AIRCRAFT
Review of types of plastics used in airplanes – Maintenance and repair of plastic components -Repair of cracks and holes – various repairs schemes – Scopes. Cleaning of fibre reinforced plastic (FRP) materials prior to repair; Break test – Repair Schemes; FRP/honeycomb sandwich materials; laminated FRP structural members and skin panels; Tools/equipment; Vacuum-bag process. Special precautions – Autoclaves
Unit III
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Unit IV
REVIEW OF HYDRAULIC AND PNEUMATIC SYSTEM
Trouble shooting and maintenance practices – Service and inspection – Inspection and maintenance of landing gear systems. – Inspection and maintenance of air-conditioning and pressurization system, water and waste system. Installation and maintenance of Instruments – handling – Testing -Inspection. Inspection and maintenance of auxiliary systems – Rain removal system – Position and warning system – Auxiliary Power Units (APUs).
Unit V
SAFETY PRACTICES
Hazardous materials storage and handling, Aircraft furnishing practices – Equipments. Trouble shooting. Theory and practices.
Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this course will be able to:
- Identify and apply the principles of function and safe operation to aircraft as per FAA
- Describe general airframe structural repairs, the structural repair manual and structural control programme.
- Explain the nature of airframe structural component inspection, corrosion repair and non-destructive inspection
- Evaluate aircraft component disassembly, reassembly and troubleshooting
- Identify, install, inspect, fabricate and repair aircraft sheet metal and synthetic, material structures.
Text Books:
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Reference Books:
- Brimm D.J. Bogges H.E., “Aircraft Maintenance”, Pitman Publishing corp., New York, 1940.
- Delp. Bent and Mckinely “Aircraft Maintenance Repair”, McGraw Hill, New York, 1987.
- Larry Reithmeir, “Aircraft Repair Manual”, Palamar Books, Marquette, 1992.
For detailed syllabus of all the other subjects of Aeronautical Engineering 6th Sem, visit Aero 6th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
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