Introduction to Aircraft Aeroelasticity and Loads (Aerospace Series (PEP))
Jan Robert Wright,Jonathan Edward Cooper | 2008-01-28 00:00:00 | Wiley | 488 | Engineering
Aeroelastic phenomena arising from the interaction of aerodynamic, elastic and inertia forces, and the loads resulting from flight / ground manoeuvres and gust / turbulence encounters, have a significant influence upon aircraft design. The prediction of aircraft aeroelastic stability, response and loads requires application of a range of interrelated engineering disciplines.
This new textbook introduces the foundations of aeroelasticity and loads for the flexible aircraft, providing an understanding of the main concepts involved and relating them to aircraft behaviour and industrial practice.
Features
- Use of simplified mathematical models to demonstrate key aeroelastic and loads phenomena including flutter, divergence, control effectiveness and the response and loads resulting from flight / ground manoeuvres and gust / turbulence encounters
- Introduction to some up-to-date methodologies for aeroelastics and loads modelling
- Emphasis on the strong link between aeroelasticity and loads
- Provision of MATLAB and SIMULINK programs for the simplified analyses
- Overview of typical industrial practice in meeting certification requirements
Reviews
Aeroelasticity is a tough subject to start off. However, this book will pave your way quite substantially. Once you have gone through your first Flight Dynamics course (and by this time you most likely have taken the Vibration course too), you are ready to read this book. Totally self contained, the book is a smooth transition from rigid body representation of the aircraft to the elastic one. It covers not only the static and dynamic flutter, but also responses to gusts, atmospheric turbulence, landing, and rolling on ground.
Imagine your linear flight dynamic model taking into account the elastic degree of freedom along with unsteady aerodynamics. This is a very realistic and natural extension from the rigid body model but somehow I have hardly seen Flight Dynamics text books doing that, except Bernard Etkin's book very briefly touching on the topic. The current book fills this gap well at a level accessible to third or fourth year undergraduate student in Aerospace Engineering.
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