Aircraft Structures (Dover Books on Aeronautical Engineering)

Still relevant decades after its 1950 publication | this legendary reference text on aircraft stress analysis is considered the best book on the subject. It emphasizes basic structural theory | which remains unchanged with the development of new materials and construction methods | and the application of the elementary principles of mechanics to the analysis of aircraft structures. Suitable for undergraduate students | this volume covers equilibrium of forces | space structures | inertia forces and load factors | shear and bending stresses | and beams with unsymmetrical cross sections. Additional topics include spanwise air-load distribution | external loads on the airplane | joints and fittings | deflections of structures | and special methods of analysis. Topics involving a knowledge of aerodynamics appear in final chapters | allowing students to study the prerequisite aerodynamics topics in concurrent courses.