Unified Engineering: Materials and Structures
MIT OpenCourseWare offers this materials and structures module from its Unified Engineering sequence for aerospace students. The course covers statics, analysis of trusses, and statically determinate and indeterminate systems, then moves into stress-strain behavior, beam bending, buckling, and torsion. Later units address material and structural failure, including plasticity, fracture, and fatigue, along with the physical causes behind each failure mode. Experiential labs and aerospace system projects tie the theory to real hardware, letting students apply the analysis methods to actual aircraft and spacecraft structural problems. Materials include lecture notes, problem sets, and project assignments as published on MIT OpenCourseWare, free to access with no certificate attached. The course assumes an introductory engineering background and builds toward the structural analysis skills needed for later aerospace design coursework.