Fuselage Essay

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Design of Boeing 737 Fuselage
INTRODUCTION

In order to study the stresses around a crack developed in a fuselage and its propagation, we have to primarily achieve the CAD design of a fuselage. Particularly, a section of the fuselage frame is needed to achieve the project objective. The Boeing data as provided in the public domain serves as the guideline for the design of the fuselage for this project. To successfully design the fuselage we require the detailed dimensions of the following parts-
a) Fuselage Skin
b) Bulkhead
c) longeron
d) Rivets
The above parts are the essential components in an aircraft’s fuselage structure and the serve the following function.
a) FUSELAGE SKIN
The semi-monocoque architecture stipulates that the body structure be composed of skin which conceals the main skeletal frame of the vehicle body. The distinguishing feature of such a design is that all the loads acting on the fuselage are transferred on to frame of the structure through the skin. On the other hand, early aircrafts were constructed using truss frames, typically of wood or steel tubing, which were then draped in fabric, such as linen or cotton. The skin was structural superfluous as the strength to the structure was provided solely by the airframe. The skin was essentially dead weight, apart from providing a smooth sealed surface.
The skin, usually of aluminum sheet, is attached by riveting or by bonding with special adhesives. Most metal light aircraft are constructed using this process. Monocoques as well as semi-monocoque are termed as "stressed skin" structures. This is due to the fact that a certain significant amount the external load (i.e. from wings and empennage and the engine) is taken by the fuselage skin. Moreover, all ki...

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Usually a 3-D model is constructed using the 2-D sketches, whereas 2-D sketch of a model can be obtained using the drafting tool.
FIRST ANGLE PROJECTION
The object is imagined to placed be in the first quadrant of the axis system. It lies between the observer and the plane of projection. The plane of projection is assumed to be a non-transparent plane. When views are drawn in their relative position, Right side view drawn to the left side of elevation and Top view comes below the Front view.
THIRD ANGLE PROJECTION
The object is imagined to be placed in the third quadrant of the axis system. The plane of projection lies between the observer and the object. The plane of projection is assumed to be transparent. When views are drawn in their relative position, Right side view drawn to the right side of elevation and, Top view comes above the Front view.

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