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Introduction to Aircraft Structural Analysis

  • 3rd Edition - June 14, 2017
  • Latest edition
  • Author: T.H.G. Megson
  • Language: English

Introduction to Aircraft Structure Analysis, Third Edition covers the basics of structural analysis as applied to aircraft structures. Coverage of elasticity, energy methods a… Read more

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Description

Introduction to Aircraft Structure Analysis, Third Edition covers the basics of structural analysis as applied to aircraft structures. Coverage of elasticity, energy methods and virtual work set the stage for discussions of airworthiness/airframe loads and stress analysis of aircraft components. Numerous worked examples, illustrations and sample problems show how to apply the concepts to realistic situations. As a self-contained guide, this value-priced book is an excellent resource for anyone learning the subject.

Key features

  • Based on the author's best-selling text, Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students
  • Contains expanded coverage of composite materials and structures<
  • Includes new practical and design-based examples and problems throughout the text
  • Provides an online teaching and learning tool with downloadable MATLAB code, a solutions manual, and an image bank of figures from the book

Readership

Undergraduate and postgraduate students of aerospace and aeronautical engineering. Also suitable for professional development and training courses

Table of contents

1. Basic elasticity

2. Two-dimensional problems in elasticity

3. Torsion of solid sections

4. Virtual work and energy methods

5. Energy methods

6. Matrix methods

7. Bending of thin plates

8. Columns

9. Thin plates

10. Materials

11. Structural components of aircraft

12. Airworthiness

13. Airframe loads

14. Fatigue

15. Bending of open and closed thin-walled beams

16. Shear of beams

17. Torsion of beams

18. Combined open and closed section beams

19. Structural idealization

20. Wing spars and box beams

21. Fuselages

22. Wings

23. Fuselage frames and wing ribs

24. Laminated composite structures

Product details

  • Edition: 3
  • Latest edition
  • Published: June 14, 2017
  • Language: English

About the author

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T.H.G. Megson

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.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor Emeritus, Department of Civil Engineering, Leeds University, UK (deceased)

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