Stress Analysis for Beginners
Stress Analysis for Beginners
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Is there a "one-stop-shop" for the beginning stress analyists to reference? Hopefully this would include examples and tips for what stress guy should look for. Bruhn is not an easy read. Niu and Flabel are my favorites thus far. But sure could use papers that exist out there that could be used as training material.





RE: Stress Analysis for Beginners
Roark, Formulas for Stress and Strain
Timoshenko, Theory of Elastic Stability
Timoshenko, Thoery of Elasticity
Perry, Aircraft Structures (try to find a first edition)
Couple of short courses:
Aircraft Structures Design and Analysis
http://www.kuce.org/aero/course.php?aid=7
Stress Analysis: Theory and Practice ht
Boeing has a stress analysis class for employees; It also offers the Aircraft Structural Repair for Airline Engineers class.
RE: Stress Analysis for Beginners
Bruhn isnt an easy ride, but it teaches you everything you need to know. Mike Niu did his degree in hydraulics because he wasn't judged clever enough to to aerospace (his ideal). After he completed he wanted to get into the industry(before he joined Lockheed) do he read Bruhn from back to front and did all the questions. Twice.
He then learned more by spending all his time in the lockheed library reading reports during lunchtimes to get enough info to write his first book (10 years work).
It is and will continue to be the first and last book of aero stress engineers because it contains everything you need to know. Elmer didn't invent the wheel, he just put it in a decent shop window.
RE: Stress Analysis for Beginners
KENAT, probably the least qualified checker you'll ever meet...
RE: Stress Analysis for Beginners
http://www.apesolutions.com/spd/public/
there are 4 documents there, you can take all 4 if you like. The two most relevant to this topic are
Aircraft_Structures*.pdf
Stress_Course*.pdf
RE: Stress Analysis for Beginners
RE: Stress Analysis for Beginners
In addition to all of the great suggestions above an excellent resource would be ESDU (www.IHSESDU.com) it is commercial so you would need a way to subscribe but it is very comprehensive, very well respected, validated and easy to get your head around. I was given this as a first port of call when I began work for Airbus many years ago.
RE: Stress Analysis for Beginners