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Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students (7th Ed.)
Aerospace Engineering Series
Author: Megson T.H.G.
Language: EnglishSubjects for Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students:
Keywords
aeroelasticity; aileron effectiveness; approximate analysis; bending displacements; buckling coefficients; constant shear flow; control surface flutter; crack propagation; crack tip plasticity; critical flutter speed; critical stress; distributed torque; Euler theory; fatigue; flexural-torsional buckling; fuselage frames; gust loads; inelastic buckling; landing loads; Mohr's circle; propagation rates; rate of twist; Reciprocal theorem; shear flow; shear force; Shear lag; St Venant's principle; stiffness matrices; strain energy; stress-strain relationships; symmetric maneuver loads; tension field beams; torsional divergence; unit load method; wing ribs
960 p. · 19x23.4 cm · Paperback
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Part A: Fundamentals of Structural Analysis Section A1: Elasticity 1. Basic elasticity 2. Two-dimensional problems in elasticity 3. Torsion of solid sections Section A2: Virtual work, energy, and matrix methods 4. Virtual work and energy methods 5. Energy methods 6. Matrix methods Section A3: Thin plate theory 7. Bending of thin plates Section A4: Structural instability 8. Columns 9. Thin plates Section A5: Vibration of structures 10. Structural vibration
Part B: Analysis of Aircraft Structures Section B1: Principles of stressed skin construction 11. Materials 12. Structural components of aircraft Section B2: Airworthiness and airframe loads 13. Airworthiness 14. Airframe loads 15. Fatigue Section B3: Bending, shear and torsion of thin-walled beams 16. Bending of open and closed, thin-walled beams 17. Shear of beams 18. Torsion of beams 19. Combined open and closed section beams 20. Structural idealization Section B4: Stress analysis of aircraft components 21. Wing spars and box beams 22. Fuselages 23. Wings 24. Fuselage frames and wing ribs 25. Laminated composite structures Section B5: Structural and loading discontinuities 26. Closed section beams 27. Open section beams Section B6: Introduction to aeroelasticity 28. Wing problems
- Retains its hallmark comprehensive coverage of aircraft structural analysis
- New practical and design-based examples and problems throughout the text aid understanding and relate concepts to real world applications
- Updated and additional Matlab examples and exercises support use of computational tools in analysis and design
- Available online teaching and learning tools include downloadable Matlab code, solutions manual, and image bank of figures from the book