Key Features
- 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
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