About the Book:

Aircraft structures, with emphasis on light weight, 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. These are also susceptible to buckling, aeroelastic deformation and fatigue.

This book covers comprehensive reading material for the students of Aerospace engineering and caters to the subject usually covered in two semesters.

Special Features:

• All related topics, such as engineering mechanics, strength of materials, theory of elasticity and Aerodynamics are briefly covered
• Solved problems provided; additional problems included for practice by students
• Topics like Fatigue analysis, FEM, Aeroelasticity and materials are included
• Based on the feedback received for the 1st edition, some associated topics were briefly covered

Contents:

1.       Introduction

Part - I : Basics of Structural Analysis

2.      Mechanical Properties of Materials

3.      Properties of Sections

4.      Mechanics of Rigid Bodies

5.      Energy Principles

6.      Analysis of Trusses

7.      Analysis of Continuum Structures

Part – II : Design and Analysis of Aeroplane Structures

8.      Design Aspects of Aeroplane Structure

9.      Basics of Aerodynamics

10.   Loads on Aeroplane Structure

11.   Analysis of Determinate and Indeterminate Beams

12.   Analysis of Shafts

13.   Buckling of Columns

14.   Bending and Buckling of Thin Plates

15.   Shear Flow, Shear Center and Shear Lag

16.   Analysis of Aeroplane Fuselage and Wing

17.  Fatigue Analysis

Part - III Other Relevant Topics

18.   Materials of Aeroplane Construction

19.   Finite Element Method

About the Author:

G. Lakshmi Narasaiah

• Mechanical engineering graduate from NIT (formerly REC), Warangal
• M.Tech (Aero) from IIT, Kanpur
• Worked in BHEL for 25 years, undertaking FEA for many new designs with extensive applications using software SAP-IV, STRUDL, PAFEC & ANSYS
• Developed post–processors for solutions from FEA software for fatigue & creep analysis leading to Residual Life Assessment of thermal power plant components.
• Developed routines for validation of results as per ASME B&PV code, section III
• Taught Finite Element Method and Engineering Mechanics in addition to other design subjects to engineering students, affiliated to JNTU, Hyderabad, JNTU, Kakinada and Osmania University for about 10 years
• Taught Aircraft Structures to students of Institute of Aeronautical Engineering, MLR Institute of Technology, MNR college of Engineering (affiliated to JNTU, Hyderabad)
• Authored books on ‘Engineering Mechanics’ and ‘Finite Element Analysis’ which are essential for the design and analysis of Aircraft Structures