Aircraft structures for engineering students / T.H.G. Megson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Megson, T. H. G. (Thomas Henry Gordon)

Series:

Elsevier aerospace engineering series.

Elsevier aerospace engineering series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Airframes.

Structural analysis (Engineering).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 944 p.) : ill.

Edition:

7th ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Butterworth-Heinemann, 2022.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Appendix: Design of a rear fuselage

Index.

ISBN:

9780323902113

0323902111

9780128228685

0128228687