Structures Book
Structures Book
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Hello everybody:
Could you recommend me a good book of aircraft structures design?.
I am an Industrial designer and I would like to learn about this kind of structures.
Thank you very much.
Could you recommend me a good book of aircraft structures design?.
I am an Industrial designer and I would like to learn about this kind of structures.
Thank you very much.





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Synthesis of Subsonic Airplane Design, E. Torenbeek
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Fernando
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Has anyone read it? I was thinking about picking it up so that I might be able to make sense of my previous structures classes... :P
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Do not forget Peery book´s " Aicraft Structures "...
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Bruhn is good but can be confusing. Make sure to acquire one of the many indexes available.
For design sizing Niu's "Airframe Stress Analysis and Sizing" is currently the best (my opinion, of course).
For general structural design Niu's original "Aircraft Structural Design" is good.
For the basics "Understanding Aircraft Structures" by John Cutler is good and cheap.
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Designing a good fitting or beam-like part in the real world is something of an art, and I'm not aware of any references which really address that level of detail. You have to take the many and contrasting requirements for strength, fatigue, damage tolerance, inspectability, repairability, environmental fitness (corrosion, SCC, appearance, surface prep), environmental suitability (no cad plate or CAA anymore), different costs, life, etc., and combine your addressing of them all in such a way as to produce a reasonably optimal part. This includes design of geometry, material selection, fastener usage, recurrng vs. fixed costs combined with the overall project policies, and so on. Producing a comprehensive list of the competing requirements for detail desgn is almost pointless, as they vary so much from structure to structure and project to project. The same goes for the different strategies and considerations when deciding how to meet the requirements and optimise the things that don't have simple targets (there may often be a weight target, but there's usually an incentive to save weight and cost always needs to be minimised; there are also competing aspects of some of these things, such as manufacturing cost versus life cycle or "true" cost).