Aircraft Structures

This textbook addresses topics associated with aircraft structures, such as engineering mechanics, strength of materials, theory of elasticity, and aerodynamics. With an emphasis on light weight, aircraft structures have incorporated special features such as box beams in wings, ring frames in fuselage, and longitudinal stiffeners. These are designed for bending, shear and torsion loads, and they are also susceptible to buckling, aeroelastic deformation, and fatigue. Providing additional study material, this book offers comprehensive coverage for students of aerospace engineering.

Part 1:

Basics of Structural Analysis, including the Mechanical Properties of Materials

Properties of Sections

Mechanics of Rigid Bodies

Energy Principles

Analysis of Trusses and Analysis of Continuum Structures

Part 2:

Design and Analysis of Aeroplane Structures

Design Aspects of Aeroplane Structure

Basics of Aerodynamics

Loads on Aeroplane Structure

Analysis of Determinate and Indeterminate Beams

Analysis of Shafts

Buckling of Columns

Bending and Buckling of Thin Plates

Shear Flow

Shear Center and Shear Lag

Analysis of Aeroplane Fuselage and Wing and Fatigue Analysis

Part 3:

Other Relevant Topics, such as the Materials of Aeroplane Construction, Finite Element Method and Aeroelasticity.

G Lakshmi Narasaiah is a professor at the Institute of Aeronautical Engineering, affiliated to the Jawarhalal Nehru University of Technology, Hyderabad, India, where he works on engineering mechanics, machine design and finite element analysis. Educated as a mechanical engineer and specialized in Aero-structures, he worked for over 25 years at Bharat Heavy Electrical Ltd and gained both broad and deep knowledge and expertise of finite element analysis of power plant structure and pressure vessels.