Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students

T.H.G. Megson was a professor emeritus with the Department of Civil Engineering at Leeds University (UK). For Elsevier he wrote the market leading Butterworth Heinemann textbooks Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students and Introduction to Aircraft Structural Analysis (a briefer derivative of the aircraft structures book), as well as the text/ref hybrid Structural and Stress Analysis.

• Part A: Fundamentals of Structural AnalysisSection A1: Elasticity1. Basic elasticity2. Two-dimensional problems in elasticity3. Torsion of solid sectionsSection A2: Virtual work, energy, and matrix methods4. Virtual work and energy methods5. Energy methods6. Matrix methodsSection A3: Thin plate theory7. Bending of thin platesSection A4: Structural instability8. Columns9. Thin platesSection A5: Vibration of structures10. Structural vibrationPart B: Analysis of Aircraft StructuresSection B1: Principles of stressed skin construction11. Materials12. Structural components of aircraftSection B2: Airworthiness and airframe loads13. Airworthiness14. Airframe loads15. FatigueSection B3: Bending, shear and torsion of thin-walled beams16. Bending of open and closed, thin-walled beams17. Shear of beams18. Torsion of beams19. Combined open and closed section beams20. Structural idealizationSection B4: Stress analysis of aircraft components21. Wing spars and box beams22. Fuselages23. Wings24. Fuselage frames and wing ribs25. Laminated composite structuresSection B5: Structural and loading discontinuities26. Closed section beams27. Open section beamsSection B6: Introduction to aeroelasticity28. Wing problems