Design and Analysis of Composite Structures: With Applications to Aerospace Structures

Design and Analysis of Composite Structures With Applications to Aerospace Structures enables graduate students and engineers to generate meaningful and robust designs of complex composite structures. Combining analysis and design methods for structural components, the book begins with simple topics such as skins and stiffeners and progresses to entire components of fuselages and wings.

Starting with basic mathematical derivations followed by simplifications used in real-world design, Design and Analysis of Composite Structures With Applications to Aerospace Structures presents the level of accuracy and range of applicability of each method.

SPECIAL FEATURES

• Detailed examples taken from actual applications that show how the concepts are applied, solving the same design problem with different methods based on different drivers (such as cost or weight) to show how the final configuration changes as the requirements and approach change
• A toolkit of analysis and design methods to most situations encountered in practice, as well as analytical frameworks and the means to solving them for tackling less frequent problems
• Solutions applicable to optimization schemes without having to run finite element models at each iteration, speeding up the design process and allowing examination of several more alternatives than traditional approaches
• Guidelines showing how decisions based on manufacturing considerations affect weight and how weight optimization may adversely affect the cost