Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students
by T.H.G. Megson
7th Edition
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Book Details
| Print ISBN | 9780128228685 |
| eText ISBN | 9780323902113 |
| Publisher | Butterworth-Heinemann |
| Publishing Year | 2021 |
| Edition | 7th Edition |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 960 |
Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students, 7th Edition, by T.H.G. Megson presents the core principles and analytical methods used in aerospace structural evaluation.
The textbook addresses core mechanics such as elasticity, virtual work, energy methods, and structural vibration alongside aircraft applications. Readers explore airworthiness, airframe loads, thin-walled beam behavior under bending, shear, and torsion, and the stress analysis of wings and fuselages.
Prepared for upper-level undergraduate and graduate aerospace engineering students as well as professional training courses, the 2021 edition provides expanded treatment of composite materials and adds design-oriented examples with updated MATLAB exercises.
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
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