This text is designed for teaching structural analysis of aerospace structures. It can be used for third and fourth year students in aerospace engineering as well as first and second year graduate students in aerospace and mechanical engineering.

The authors and their colleagues developed this text over many years, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in structural analysis courses at the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering of the Georgia Institute of Technology.

The emphasis is on clarity and unity in the presentation of basic structural analysis concepts and methods. The equations of linear elasticity and basic constitutive behaviour of isotropic and composite materials are reviewed. The text focuses on the analysis of practical structural components including bars, beams and plates. Particular attention is devoted to the analysis of thin-walled beams under bending shearing and torsion. Advanced topics such as warping, non-uniform torsion, shear deformations, thermal effect and plastic deformations are addressed. A unified treatment of work and energy principles is provided that naturally leads to an examination of approximate analysis methods including an introduction to matrix and finite element methods.

This teaching tool based on practical situations and thorough methodology should prove valuable to both lecturers and students of structural analysis in engineering worldwide.

This is a textbook for teaching structural analysis of aerospace structures. It can be used for 3rd and 4th year students in aerospace engineering, as well as for 1st and 2nd year graduate students in aerospace and mechanical engineering.

A unified treatment of the various topics Exhaustive coverage with unified approach Extensive selection of problems with computer applications

Autorentext

Olivier Bauchau teaches and conducts research in the fields of structural dynamics, multibody dynamics, experimental dynamics, and mechanics of advanced composite materials and structures. He was educated at Université de l'Etat à Liège (Belgium), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. He has worked as a researcher at St. Gobain Récherches in Paris, France and as associate professor at the department of Mechanical Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering, and Mechanics at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY, before settling as a professor at the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. Faculty responsibilities include teaching of graduate and undergraduate courses, and conducting research in the fields of structural dynamics, multibody dynamics, experimental dynamics, and mechanics of advanced composite materials and structures. Professor Bauchau is an Engineering Consultant with United Technologies Research Center in Hartford, CT.; Sikorsky Aircraft in Stratford, CT.; Bell Helicopter in Fort Worth, TX.; NASA Ames Research Center in Moffet Field, CA; NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA; Advanced Rotorcraft Technology Inc. in Mountain View, CA.; Materials Technologies Corporation in Monroe, CT. His fields of expertise include teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in the areas of Theory of Structures, Strength of Materials, Advanced Structural Analysis, Design with Composite Materials, Aeroelasticity, Finite Element Methodologies, Engineering Mechanics, Structural Dynamics, Machine Dynamics, and Engineering Laboratories, as well as conducting research in the areas of Finite Element Methods for Structural and Multibody Dynamics, Experimental Mechanics and Dynamics, and the Design and Manufacturing of Composite Materials and Structures.

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Part I Basic tools and concepts; 1 Basic Equations of Linear Elasticity .1.1 The concept of stress; 1.1.1 The state of stress at a point; 1.1.2 Volume equilibrium equations; 1.1.3 Surface equilibrium equations; 1.2 Analysis of the state of stress at a point; 1.2.1 Stress components acting on an arbitrary face; 1.2.2 Principal stresses; 1.2.3 Rotation of stresses; 1.2.4 Problems; 1.3 The state of plane stress; 1.3.1 Equilibrium equations; 1.3.2 Stresses acting on an arbitrary face within the sheet; 1.3.3 Principal stresses;1.3.4 Rotation of stresses; 1.3.5 Special states of stress; 1.3.6 Mohr's circle for plane stress; 1.3.7 Lamé's ellipse; 1.3.8 Problems; 1.4 The concept of strain; 1.4.1 The state of strain at a point; 1.4.2 The volumetric strain; 1.5 Analysis of the state of strain at a point; 1.5.1 Rotation of strains 1.5.2 Principal strains; 1.6 The state of plane strain; 1.6.1 Strain-displacement relations for plane strain; 1.6.2 Rotation of strains; 1.6.3 Principal strains; 1.6.4 Mohr's circle for plane strain; 1.7 Measurement of strains; 1.7.1 Problems; 1.8 Strain compatibility equations; 2 Constitutive Behavior of Materials; 2.1 Constitutive laws for isotropic materials; 2.1.1 Homogeneous, isotropic, linear elastic materials; 2.1.2 Thermal effects; 2.1.3 Problems; 2.1.4 Ductile materials; 2.1.5 Brittle materials; 2.2 Allowable stress; 2.3 Yielding under combined loading; 2.3.1 Tresca's criterion; 2.3.2 Von Mises' criterion; 2.3.3 Comparing Tresca's and von Mises' criteria;2.3.4 Problems; 2.4 Material selection for structural performance; 2.4.1 Strength design; 2.4.2 Stiffness design 2.4.3 Buckling design; 2.5 Composite materials; 2.5.1 Basic characteristics;2.5.2 Stress diffusion in a composite; 2.6 Constitutive laws for anisotropic materials; 2.6.1 Constitutive laws for a lamina in the fiber aligned triad; 2.6.2 Constitutive laws for a lamina in an arbitrary triad; 2.7 Strength of a transversely isotropic lamina; 2.7.1 Strength of a lamina under simpleloading conditions; 2.7.2 The Tsai-Wu failure criterion; 2.7.3 The reserve factor; 3 Linear Elasticity Solutions; 3.1 Solution procedures; 3.1.1 Displacement formulation; 3.1.2 Stress formulation; 3.1.3 Solutions to elasticity problems; 3.2 Plane strain problems; 3.3 Plane stress problems; 3.4 Plane strain and plane stress in polar coordinates; 3.5 Problem featuring cylindrical symmetry; 3.5.1 Problems; 4 Engineering Structural Analysis; 4.1 Solution approaches; 4.2 Bar under constant axial force; 4.3 Hyperstatic systems; 4.3.1 Solution procedures; 4.3.2 The displacement or stiffness method; 4.3.3 The force or flexibility method; 4.3.4 Problems; 4.3.5 Thermal effects in hyperstatic system; 4.3.6 Manufacturing imperfection effects in hyperstatic system; 4.3.7 Problems; 4.4 Pressure vessels; 4.4.1 Rings under internal pressure; 4.4.2 Cylindrical pressure vessels; 4.4.3 Spherical pressure vessels; 4.4.4 Problems; 4.5 Saint-Venant's principle; Part II Beams and thin-wall structures5 Euler-Bernoulli Beam Theory; 5.1 The Euler-Bernoulli Assumptions; 5.2 Implications of the Euler-Bernoulli assumptions; 5.3 Stress resultants; 5.4 Beams subjected to axial loads; 5.4.1 Kinematic description; 5.4.2 Sectional constitutive law; 5.4.3 Equilibrium equations; 5.4.4 Governing equations; 5.4.5 The sectional axial stiffness; 5.4.6 The axial stress distribution; 5.4.7 Problems; 5.5 Beams subjected to transverse loads; 5.5.1 Kinematic description; 5.5.2 Sectional constitutive law; 5.5.3 Equilibrium equations; 5.5.4 Governing equations; 5.5.5 The sectional bending stiffness; 5.5.6 The axial stress distribution; 5.5.7 Rational design of beams under bending; 5.5.8 Problems; 5.6 Beams subjected to axial and transverse loads; 5.6.1 Kinematic description; 5.6.2 Sectional constitutive law; 5.6.3 Equilibrium equations; 5.6.4 Governing equations; 6 Three-Dimensional Beam Theory; 6.1 Kinematic description; 6.2 Sectional constitutive law; 6.3 Sectional equilibrium equations; 6.4 Governing equations; 6.5 Decoupling the three-dimensional problem; 6.5.1 Definition of the principal axes of bending; 6.5.2 Decoupled governing equations; 6.6 The principal centroidal axes of bending; 6.6.1 The bending stiffness ellipse; 6.7 Definition of the neutral axis; 6.…