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Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students

Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students provides a completely self contained course in aircraft structures, which includes discussion on the fundamentals of elasticit… Read more

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Description

Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students provides a completely self contained course in aircraft structures, which includes discussion on the fundamentals of elasticity and aircraft structural analysis, as well as the associated topics of airworthiness and aeroelasticity. Although much of the basic material is timeless, the author has updated the text throughout, including new material on areas that have developed since the last edition - in both educational and technological terms.

The expansion of aviation makes aircraft structures an increasingly important topic at undergraduate level. Since its original publication in 1972, this book has become the 'bible' for aircraft structures.

Key features

Extra worked examples and problems. Latest materials in aircraft construction. Airframe loads produced by manoeuvring.

Readership

Undergraduate and postgraduate aeronautical, mechanical and structural engineers.

Table of contents

Part 1: Elasticity * Basic elasticity * Two-dimensional problems in elasticity * Torsion of solid sections * Energy methods of structural analysis * Bending of thin plates * Structural instability * Part 2: Aircraft structures * Principles of stressed skin construction * Airworthiness and airframe loads * Bending, shear and torsion of open and closed, thin-walled beams * Stress analysis of aircraft components * Structural constraint * Matrix methods of structural analysis * Elementary aeroelasticity.

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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)