Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students

T.H.G. Megson is a professor emeritus with the Department of Civil Engineering at Leeds University (UK). For Elsevier he has written 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.

Part A. Basic Elasticity. Two-Dimensional Problems in Elasticity. Torsion of Solid Sections. Virtual Work. Energy Methods. Strain Energy and Complementary Energy. Matrix Methods. Bending of Thin Plates. Columns. Thin Plates. Tension Field Beams. Flexural-Torsional Buckling of Thin Walled Columns. Structural Vibration. Part B. Materials. Structural Components of Aircraft. Airworthiness. Airframe Loads. Fatigue. Bending of Beams. Shear of Beams. Torsion of Beams. Analysis of Combined Open and Closed Section Beams. Structural Idealisation. Wing Spars and Box Beams. Fuselages. Wings. Fuselage Frames and Wing Ribs. Laminated Composite Structures. Closed Section Beams. Open Section Beams. Wing Problems. APPENDIX Case Study: Design of an Aircraft Fuselage.