Aerospace Strength Handbook - Volume I: Practical Structural Mechanics for Aerospace Engineers

This book covers the fundamentals of practical mechanics of materials for aerospace students and engineers. It focuses on practical techniques that are used daily by aerospace structures professionals. It addresses aerospace structures nomenclature & methods of structural analysis with a focus towards the analysis of lightweight aerospace vehicles. Its companion book, Volume II, provides a number of more advanced techniques to ensure that folks who master both texts will be well-armed for effective structural analysis in any setting.This book is also intended as the primary text for a first undergraduate course in aerospace structures, and its content has been honed by its use at California State Polytechnic University Pomona over the last five years.The author is an experienced structural analyst and FAA Structures DER with three decades of experience in aircraft and rocket structural analysis enhanced by eight years of subsequent teaching at the university level. Read more