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Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students
- 7th Edition - August 11, 2021
- Author: T.H.G. Megson
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 2 8 6 8 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 0 2 1 1 - 3
Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students, Seventh Edition, is the leading self-contained aircraft structures course text suitable for one or more semesters. It covers all fu… Read more
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Request a sales quoteAircraft Structures for Engineering Students, Seventh Edition, is the leading self-contained aircraft structures course text suitable for one or more semesters. It covers all fundamental subjects, including elasticity, structural analysis, airworthiness and aeroelasticity. Now in its seventh edition, the author has continued to expand the book’s coverage of analysis and design of composite materials for use in aircraft and has added more real-world and design-based examples, along with new end-of-chapter problems of varying complexity.
- 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
Upper level undergraduate and graduate aerospace engineering students taking a course on aerospace structures; professional development and training courses
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Preface to the Seventh Edition of Aircraft Structures
- Part A: Fundamentals of Structural Analysis
- Section A1: Elasticity
- Chapter 1: Basic elasticity
- Abstract
- 1.1: Stress
- 1.2: Notation for forces and stresses
- 1.3: Equations of equilibrium
- 1.4: Plane stress
- 1.5: Boundary conditions
- 1.6: Determination of stresses on inclined planes
- 1.7: Principal stresses
- 1.8: Mohr's circle of stress
- 1.9: Strain
- 1.10: Compatibility equations
- 1.11: Plane strain
- 1.12: Determination of strains on inclined planes
- 1.13: Principal strains
- 1.14: Mohr's circle of strain
- 1.15: Stress–strain relationships
- 1.16: Experimental measurement of surface strains
- Chapter 2: Two-dimensional problems in elasticity
- Abstract
- 2.1: Two-dimensional problems
- 2.2: Stress functions
- 2.3: Inverse and semi-inverse methods
- 2.4: St. Venant's principle
- 2.5: Displacements
- 2.6: Bending of an end-loaded cantilever
- Chapter 3: Torsion of solid sections
- Abstract
- 3.1: Prandtl stress function solution
- 3.2: St. Venant warping function solution
- 3.3: The membrane analogy
- 3.4: Torsion of a narrow rectangular strip
- Section A2: Virtual work, energy, and matrix methods
- Chapter 4: Virtual work and energy methods
- Abstract
- 4.1: Work
- 4.2: Principle of virtual work
- 4.3: Applications of the principle of virtual work
- Chapter 5: Energy methods
- Abstract
- 5.1: Strain energy and complementary energy
- 5.2: Principle of the stationary value of the total complementary energy
- 5.3: Application to deflection problems
- 5.4: Application to the solution of statically indeterminate systems
- 5.5: Unit load method
- 5.6: Flexibility method
- 5.7: Total potential energy
- 5.8: Principle of the stationary value of the total potential energy
- 5.9: Principle of superposition
- 5.10: Reciprocal theorem
- 5.11: Temperature effects
- Chapter 6: Matrix methods
- Abstract
- 6.1: Notation
- 6.2: Stiffness matrix for an elastic spring
- 6.3: Stiffness matrix for two elastic springs in line
- 6.4: Matrix analysis of pin-jointed frameworks
- 6.5: Application to statically indeterminate frameworks
- 6.6: Matrix analysis of space frames
- 6.7: Stiffness matrix for a uniform beam
- 6.8: Finite element method for continuum structures
- Section A3: Thin plate theory
- Chapter 7: Bending of thin plates
- Abstract
- 7.1: Pure bending of thin plates
- 7.2: Plates subjected to bending and twisting
- 7.3: Plates subjected to a distributed transverse load
- 7.4: Combined bending and in-plane loading of a thin rectangular plate
- 7.5: Bending of thin plates having a small initial curvature
- 7.6: Energy method for the bending of thin plates
- Section A4: Structural instability
- Chapter 8: Columns
- Abstract
- 8.1: Euler buckling of columns
- 8.2: Inelastic buckling
- 8.3: Effect of initial imperfections
- 8.4: Stability of beams under transverse and axial loads
- 8.5: Energy method for the calculation of buckling loads in columns
- 8.6: Flexural–torsional buckling of thin-walled columns
- Chapter 9: Thin plates
- Abstract
- 9.1: Buckling of thin plates
- 9.2: Inelastic buckling of plates
- 9.3: Experimental determination of the critical load for a flat plate
- 9.4: Local instability
- 9.5: Instability of stiffened panels
- 9.6: Failure stress in plates and stiffened panels
- 9.7: Tension field beams
- Section A5: Vibration of structures
- Chapter 10: Structural vibration
- Abstract
- 10.1: Oscillation of mass–spring systems
- 10.2: Oscillation of beams
- 10.3: Approximate methods for determining natural frequencies
- Part B: Analysis of Aircraft Structures
- Section B1: Principles of stressed skin construction
- Chapter 11: Materials
- Abstract
- 11.1: Aluminum alloys
- 11.2: Steel
- 11.3: Titanium
- 11.4: Polymers
- 11.5: Glass
- 11.6: Ceramics
- 11.7: Composite materials
- 11.8: Properties of materials
- Chapter 12: Structural components of aircraft and spacecraft
- Abstract
- 12.1: Structural components: Aircraft
- 12.2: Structural components: Spacecraft
- 12.3: Connections
- Section B2: Airworthiness and airframe loads
- Chapter 13: Airworthiness
- Abstract
- 13.1: Factors of safety: flight envelope
- 13.2: Load factor determination
- 13.3: Airworthiness: Spacecraft
- Chapter 14: Airframe loads
- Abstract
- 14.1: Aircraft inertia loads
- 14.2: Symmetric maneuver loads
- 14.3: Normal accelerations associated with various types of maneuver
- 14.4: Gust loads
- 14.5: Design loads: Spacecraft
- Chapter 15: Fatigue
- Abstract
- 15.1: Safe life and fail-safe structures
- 15.2: Designing against fatigue
- 15.3: Fatigue strength of components
- 15.4: Prediction of aircraft fatigue life
- 15.5: Crack propagation
- Section B3: Bending, shear, and torsion of thin-walled beams
- Chapter 16: Bending of open and closed thin-walled beams
- Abstract
- 16.1: Symmetrical bending
- 16.2: Unsymmetrical bending
- 16.3: Deflections due to bending
- 16.4: Calculation of section properties
- 16.5: Applicability of bending theory
- 16.6: Temperature effects
- Chapter 17: Shear of beams
- Abstract
- 17.1: General stress, strain, and displacement relationships for open and single-cell closed section thin-walled beams
- 17.2: Shear of open section beams
- 17.3: Shear of closed section beams
- Chapter 18: Torsion of beams
- Abstract
- 18.1: Torsion of closed section beams
- 18.2: Torsion of open section beams
- Chapter 19: Combined open and closed section beams
- Abstract
- 19.1: Bending
- 19.2: Shear
- 19.3: Torsion
- Chapter 20: Structural idealization
- Abstract
- 20.1: Principle
- 20.2: Idealization of a panel
- 20.3: Effect of idealization on the analysis of open and closed section beams
- 20.4: Deflection of open and closed section beams
- Section B4: Stress analysis of aircraft and spacecraft components
- Chapter 21: Wing spars and box beams
- Abstract
- 21.1: Tapered wing spar
- 21.2: Open and closed section beams
- 21.3: Beams having variable stringer areas
- Chapter 22: Fuselages
- Abstract
- 22.1: Bending
- 22.2: Shear
- 22.3: Torsion
- 22.4: Pressurized fuselages
- 22.5: Cut-outs in fuselages
- Chapter 23: Wings
- Abstract
- 23.1: Three-boom shell
- 23.2: Bending
- 23.3: Torsion
- 23.4: Shear
- 23.5: Shear center
- 23.6: Tapered wings
- 23.7: Deflections
- 23.8: Cut-outs in wings
- Chapter 24: Fuselage frames and wing ribs
- Abstract
- 24.1: Principles of stiffener/web construction
- 24.2: Fuselage frames
- 24.3: Wing ribs
- Chapter 25: Spacecraft
- 25.1: Natural frequencies
- 25.2: Axial stress
- 25.3: Stability
- Chapter 26: Laminated composite structures
- Abstract
- 26.1: Elastic constants of a simple lamina
- 26.2: Stress–strain relationships for an orthotropic ply (macro approach)
- 26.3: Laminates
- 26.4: Thin-walled composite beams
- Section B5: Structural and loading discontinuities
- Chapter 27: Closed section beams
- Abstract
- 27.1: General aspects
- 27.2: Shear stress distribution at a built-in end of a closed section beam
- 27.3: Thin-walled rectangular section beam subjected to torsion
- 27.4: Shear lag
- Chapter 28: Open section beams
- Abstract
- 28.1: I-Section beam subjected to torsion
- 28.2: Torsion of an arbitrary section beam
- 28.3: Distributed torque loading
- 28.4: Extension of the theory to allow for general systems of loading
- 28.5: Moment couple (bimoment)
- Section B6: Introduction to aeroelasticity
- Chapter 29: Wing problems
- Abstract
- 29.1: Types of problem
- 29.2: Load distribution and divergence
- 29.3: Control effectiveness and reversal
- 29.4: Introduction to “flutter”
- Appendix: Design of a rear fuselage
- A.1: Specification
- A.2: Data
- A.3: Initial calculations
- A.4: Balancing out calculations
- A.5: Fuselage loads
- A.6: Fuselage design calculations
- Index
- No. of pages: 960
- Language: English
- Edition: 7
- Published: August 11, 2021
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128228685
- eBook ISBN: 9780323902113
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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)Read Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students on ScienceDirect