Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students (Aerospace Engineering)

Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students, Sixth Edition, is the leading self-contained aircraft structures course text. It covers all fundamental subjects, including elasticity, structural analysis, airworthiness and aeroelasticity. Now in its sixth edition, the author has expanded the book's coverage of analysis and design of composite materials for use in aircraft, and has added new, real-world and design-based examples, along with new end-of-chapter problems of varying complexity. Expanded coverage of composite materials and structures 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 Preface to the Sixth Edition of Aircraft Structures 6 Preface 7 Part A: Fundamentals of Structural Analysis 8 Section A1: Elasticity 8 1 Basic elasticity 8 2 Two-dimensional problems in elasticity 50 3 Torsion of solid sections 71 Section A2: Virtual work, energy, and matrix methods 91 4 Virtual work and energy methods 91 5 Energy methods 123 6 Matrix methods 183 Section A3: Thin plate theory 231 7 Bending of thin plates 231 Section A4: Structural instability 265 8 Columns 265 9 Thin plates 307 Section A5: Vibration of structures 341 10 Structural vibration 341 Part B: Analysis of Aircraft Structures 363 Section B1: Principles of stressed skin construction 363 11 Materials 363 12 Structural components of aircraft 386 Section B2: Airworthiness and airframe loads 407 13 Airworthiness 407 14 Airframe loads 413 15 Fatigue 442 Section B3: Bending, shear and torsion of thin-walled beams 466 16 Bending of open and closed, thin-walled beams 466 17 Shear of beams 519 18 Torsion of beams 551 19 Combined open and closed section beams 575 20 Structural idealization 587 Section B4: Stress analysis of aircraft components 610 21 Wing spars and box beams 610 22 Fuselages 627 23 Wings 640 24 Fuselage frames and wing ribs 674 25 Laminated composite structures 686 Section B5: Structural and loading discontinuities 737 26 Closed section beams 737 27 Open section beams 778 Section B6: Introduction to aeroelasticity 804 28 Wing problems 804 Appendix: Design of a rear fuselage 827 Index 855