Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students

by Megson

• ISBN13: 9780750667395
• ISBN10: 0750667397
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-03-08
• Publisher: Elsevier Science

Summary

Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students is the leading self contained aircraft structures course text. It covers all fundamental subjects, including elasticity, structural analysis, airworthiness and aeroelasticity. Now in its fourth edition, the author has revised and updated the text throughout and added new case study and worked example material to make the text even more accessible. Includes a Solutions Manual available to all adopting teachers. * New organization aids understanding of the fundamentals of structural analysis and emphasizes applications to aircraft structures * New worked examples throughout the text aid understanding and relate concepts to real world applications * Additional coverage includes virtual work, tension field beams, post buckling behavior, material properties, composite structures and crack propagation * An extensive aircraft design project case study shows the application of the major techniques in the book * End of chapter exercises and accompanying Instructor's Manual at http://textbooks.elsevier.com

Table of Contents

Fundamentals of Structural Analysis

Elasticity

Basic elasticity

Two-dimensional problems in elasticity

Torsion of solid sections

Virtual Work, Energy and Matrix Methods

Virtual work

Energy methods

Matrix methods

Thin Plate Theory

Bending of thin plates

Structural Instability

Columns

Thin plates

Structural Vibration

Analysis of Aircraft Structures

Principles of Stressed Skin Construction

Materials

Structural components of aircraft

Airworthiness and Airframe Loads

Airworthiness

Airframe loads

Fatigue

Bending, Shear and Torsion of Thin-Walled Beams

Bending of open and closed, Thin-Walled Beams

Shear of beams

Torsion of beams

Combined open and closed section beams

Structural Idealisation B IV Stress Analysis of Aircraft Components

Wing spars and box beams

Fuselages

Wings

Fuselage frames and wing ribs

Laminated composite structures BV Structural and Loading Discontinuities

Closed section beams

Open section beams

Wing problems

Appendix

Case Study: Design of an Aircraft Fuselage

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