Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students 5th Edition by T.H.G. Megson covers all fundamental subjects, including elasticity, structural analysis, airworthiness and aeroelasticity. Now in its fifth edition, the author has revised and updated the text throughout and added new examples and exercises using Matlab(c). Additional worked examples make the text even more accessible by showing application of concepts to airframe structures. Includes a Solutions Manual available to all adopting teachers.
It 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. 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.
New worked examples are throughout the text aid understanding and relate concepts to real world applications. Matlab examples and exercises are added throughout to support use of computational tools in analysis and design. An extensive aircraft design project case study shows the application of the major techniques in the book.
The fifth edition has been produced in response to requests for more worked examples and end of chapter exercises and also for computer based solutions (MATLAB). The organisation of the contents is the same as in the fourth edition. Part A, Fundamentals of Structural Analysis, comprises basic elasticity, virtual work and energy methods, thin plate theory, structural instability and the vibration of structures. Part B, Analysis of Aircraft Structures, includes the principles of stressed skin construction from the points of view of materials and structural components, airworthiness and airframe loads and a detailed study of fatigue including the prediction of aircraft fatigue life.
Part B also includes the analysis of thin-walled beams subjected to bending, shear and torsional loads and the method of idealising a structure into one more amenable to analysis. This then leads into the stress analysis of aircraft components such as wing spars, fuselages, wings, fuselage frames and wing ribs. Composite structures are considered and the effects on the analysis of structural and loading discontinuities investigated. An introduction to aeroelasticity is given. Finally the design of a portion of the rear fuselage of a trainer/semi-aerobatic aircraft is presented.
Book Details
Series: Elsevier Aerospace Engineering
Paperback: 864 pages
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann; 5 edition (April 10, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0080969054
ISBN-13: 978-0080969053
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