Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students

by T.H.G. Megson

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780081009987
Publisher:	Butterworth-Heinemann
Publication date:	10/17/2016
Series:	Aerospace Engineering
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	910
File size:	55 MB
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About the Author

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.

Table of 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

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From the Publisher

For nearly 50 years, the leading self-contained aircraft structures course text, kept more current and updated than any other text

Editorial Reviews

"This is an excellent book and should find a place on the shelf of any student or practising engineer involved in aircraft structural analysis. I can recommend it to the aeronautical community without reservation." —The Aeronautical Journal, October 2001

"As an introduction to the problems encountered in the structural design of modern aircraft, Megson's book can be recommended to both students and those engaged in structural analysis aerospace design offices." —Aerospace

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