2 edition. — Gan Corporation, 2008. — 309 p. — ISBN 978-0-9816076-1-0 — Язык: английский.Analysis and Design of Flight Vehicle Structures by Elmer Franklin Bruhn may as well have been written in Latin when I purchased my first copy more than twenty-five years ago. It is arguably the most comprehensive book on aircraft stress analysis ever written.While many of the methods in Bruhn have been overshadowed by Finite Element Analysis, they provide valuable insight into the fundamentals of aircraft design and an appreciation for the men and women that designed aircraft before John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry invented the electronic digital computer at Iowa State University. You won't find many aircraft stress analysts using the Moment Distribution (Hardy Cross) Method, Slope Deflection Method or the Methods of Elastic Weights, Dummy Unit-Loads, Moment Areas, Virtual Work or Influence Coefficients. While some of the methods are more than fifty years old, the lessons are timeless.This book is a compilation of the mistakes, omissions and typographical errors my teammates and I have discovered in the last two decades. Keep in mind that Bruhn was written before electronic calculators and spreadsheets were invented.Contents at a Glance
Analysis and Design of Flight Vehicle Structures
Aircraft Structures
Charts and Graphs
References
Symbols and Abbreviations
