Aircraft Loading And Structural Layout

The author's comprehensive lecture notes, accumulated during 45 years of teaching aircraft design at Cranfield University, provided the basis for this valuable reference text which offers a straightforward, systematic approach to the quantitative derivation of the initial structural concept. Readers will find a simple, logical, sequence to derive the form, location, and approximate sizing of the main members of the airframe as a precursor to a comprehensive structural analysis and design refinement: uniquely comprehensive source of information; written by an internationally recognized authority; fills a void in the aerospace literature; and is destined to become a classic reference text.
Graduate- and postgraduate-level aeronautical students will welcome the approach offered by Aircraft Loading and Structural Layout. Practising engineers in the aircraft industry will find a useful loading actions reference, providing a simple method for the derivation of initial structural data for input to advance analysis programs and the interpretation of the output from them.

Denis Howe is Professor Emeritus and formerly Head of the College of Aeronautics, and Dean of Engineering, Cranfield University, UK.