TMHL03 · 6 credits · Advanced level (A1N) · Flygteknik, Maskinteknik
Mechanics of Light Structures
Active · next start HT 2026
73%
passed the latest ordinary exam
TENA · 29 Oct 2025 · 56 students
85%
passed the ordinary exams, all sittings over the last 5 years
TENA · 150 students
Unusually hard in 2025/26
73% passed the ordinary exam in 2025/26 (56 students), against 93% on average in earlier years (94 students).
Part of 3 programmes
Exam
TENA Written examination
- 5
- 4
- 3
- U
Ordinary exams
85% passed · 150 students
- 73%56
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- 89%27
- 100%14
Re-exams
75% passed · 12 students
- 71%7
- 80%5
- Pass the re-exam: 75% (12 students), compared with 85% (150 students) on the ordinary exam
- Get 4 or 5: 65% (162 students)
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Other modules
Partial exams, hand-ins and labs. They are not part of the figures at the top.
Hand-in or lab
LABA Laboratory Work
- G
Main rounds
100% passed · 131 students
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Later rounds
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About the course
Aim
The course is to give the student a basic knowledge about the relations needed in order to analyze thin walled structures (plates and shells) with respect to stresses and deformations, and the ability to independently apply this knowledge to concrete problems. At the end of the course, the student shall be able to
- give an account of basic aspects of the classical plate and shell theory
- solve problems regarding the stress- and deformation states in loaded thin-walled structures
- identify unrealistic results
Content
Basic relations of Solid Mechanics, classical theory for in plane loaded plates including the Airy stress function, the Kirchhoff plate theory with applications to strip plates, symmetrically loaded circular plates and simply supported rectangular plates, buckling analysis of simply supported rectangular plates, membrane theory for shells of revolution, bending theory for symmetrically loaded cylindrical shells with applications to tanks and pressure vessels
- Examiner
- Peter Schmidt
- Scheduled hours
- 48 h
- Main field of study
- Flygteknik, Maskinteknik