Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students

Klappentext Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students, Sixth Edition, is the leading self-contained aircraft structures course text. It covers all fundamental subjects, including elasticity, structural analysis, airworthiness and aeroelasticity. Now in its sixth edition, the author has expanded the book's coverage of analysis and design of composite materials for use in aircraft, and has added new, real-world and design-based examples, along with new end-of-chapter problems of varying complexity.

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T.H.G. Megson was a professor emeritus with the Department of Civil Engineering at Leeds University (UK). For Elsevier he wrote the market leading Butterworth Heinemann textbooks Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students and Introduction to Aircraft Structural Analysis (a briefer derivative of the aircraft structures book), as well as the text/ref hybrid Structural and Stress Analysis.

Inhalt

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
4. Energy methods
5. Matrix methods
   Section A3: Thin plate theory
   7. Bending of thin plates
   Section A4: Structural instability
   8. Columns

6. 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

7. Structural components of aircraft
   Section B2: Airworthiness and airframe loads
   13. Airworthiness
8. Airframe loads
9. Fatigue
   Section B3: Bending, shear and torsion of thin-walled beams
   16. Bending of open and closed, thin-walled beams
10. Shear of beams
11. Torsion of beams
12. Combined open and closed section beams
13. Structural idealization
    Section B4: Stress analysis of aircraft components
    21. Wing spars and box beams
14. Fuselages
15. Wings
16. Fuselage frames and wing ribs
17. Laminated composite structures
    Section B5: Structural and loading discontinuities
    26. Closed section beams
18. Open section beams
    Section B6: Introduction to aeroelasticity
    28. Wing problems