Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students
by T.H.G. Megson
6th Edition
Publisher: Elsevier Butterworth Heinemann
Book Details
| Print ISBN | 9780081009147 |
| eText ISBN | 9780081009987 |
| Publisher | Elsevier Butterworth Heinemann |
| Publishing Year | 2017 |
| Edition | 6th Edition |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 910 |
Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students, 6th Edition, by T.H.G. Megson presents fundamental principles and analytical techniques for evaluating aerospace structures. The textbook introduces core concepts in elasticity, energy formulations, and matrix methods.
Coverage addresses airworthiness, airframe loads, structural instability, and thin-plate bending. It also examines structural components of aircraft, including thin-walled beams, wing ribs, and fuselages.
For the 2017 sixth edition, the volume expanded its treatment of composite materials and added practical, design-based examples and problems to connect theoretical concepts to engineering applications.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Basic elasticity
Chapter 2: Two-dimensional problems in elasticity
Chapter 3: Torsion of solid sections
Chapter 4: Virtual work and energy methods
Chapter 5: Energy methods
Chapter 6: Matrix methods
Chapter 7: Bending of thin plates
Chapter 8: Columns
Chapter 9: Thin plates
Chapter 10: Structural vibration
Chapter 11: Materials
Chapter 12: Structural components of aircraft
Chapter 13: Airworthiness
Chapter 14: Airframe loads
Chapter 15: Fatigue
Chapter 16: Bending of open and closed, thin-walled beams
Chapter 17: Shear of beams
Chapter 18: Torsion of beams
Chapter 19: Combined open and closed section beams
Chapter 20: Structural idealization
Chapter 21: Wing spars and box beams
Chapter 22: Fuselages
Chapter 23: Wings
Chapter 24: Fuselage frames and wing ribs
Chapter 25: Laminated composite structures
Chapter 26: Closed section beams
Chapter 27: Open section beams
Chapter 28: Wing problems
Chapter Appendix: Design of a rear fuselage
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