Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students
- 7th Edition - August 31, 2021
- Latest edition
- Author: T.H.G. Megson
- Language: English
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
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 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
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
5. Energy methods
6. Matrix methods
Section A3: Thin plate theory
7. Bending of thin plates
Section A4: Structural instability
8. Columns
9. 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
12. Structural components of aircraft
Section B2: Airworthiness and airframe loads
13. Airworthiness
14. Airframe loads
15. Fatigue
Section B3: Bending, shear and torsion of thin-walled beams
16. Bending of open and closed, thin-walled beams
17. Shear of beams
18. Torsion of beams
19. Combined open and closed section beams
20. Structural idealization
Section B4: Stress analysis of aircraft components
21. Wing spars and box beams
22. Fuselages
23. Wings
24. Fuselage frames and wing ribs
25. Laminated composite structures
Section B5: Structural and loading discontinuities
26. Closed section beams
27. Open section beams
Section B6: Introduction to aeroelasticity
28. Wing problems
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
5. Energy methods
6. Matrix methods
Section A3: Thin plate theory
7. Bending of thin plates
Section A4: Structural instability
8. Columns
9. 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
12. Structural components of aircraft
Section B2: Airworthiness and airframe loads
13. Airworthiness
14. Airframe loads
15. Fatigue
Section B3: Bending, shear and torsion of thin-walled beams
16. Bending of open and closed, thin-walled beams
17. Shear of beams
18. Torsion of beams
19. Combined open and closed section beams
20. Structural idealization
Section B4: Stress analysis of aircraft components
21. Wing spars and box beams
22. Fuselages
23. Wings
24. Fuselage frames and wing ribs
25. Laminated composite structures
Section B5: Structural and loading discontinuities
26. Closed section beams
27. Open section beams
Section B6: Introduction to aeroelasticity
28. Wing problems
- Edition: 7
- Latest edition
- Published: August 31, 2021
- Language: English
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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