Book Title: Introduction to Aerospace Structures and Materials
Book Description: This book provides an introduction to the discipline of aerospace structures and materials. It is the first book to date that includes all relevant aspects of this discipline within a single monologue. These aspects range from materials, manufacturing and processing techniques, to structures, design principles and structural performance, including aspects like durability and safety. With the purpose of introducing students into the basics of the entire discipline, the book presents the subjects broadly and loosely connected, adopting either a formal description or an informal walk around type of presentation. A key lessons conveyed within this book is the interplay between the exact science and engineering topics, like solid material physics and structural analysis, and the soft topics that are not easily captured by equations and formulas. Safety, manufacturability, availability and costing are some of these topics that are presented in this book to explain decisions and design solutions within this discipline.
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Book Description
This book provides an introduction to the discipline of aerospace structures and materials. It is the first book to date that includes all relevant aspects of this discipline within a single monologue. These aspects range from materials, manufacturing and processing techniques, to structures, design principles and structural performance, including aspects like durability and safety. With the purpose of introducing students into the basics of the entire discipline, the book presents the subjects broadly and loosely connected, adopting either a formal description or an informal walk around type of presentation. A key lessons conveyed within this book is the interplay between the exact science and engineering topics, like solid material physics and structural analysis, and the soft topics that are not easily captured by equations and formulas. Safety, manufacturability, availability and costing are some of these topics that are presented in this book to explain decisions and design solutions within this discipline.
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Introduction to Aerospace Structures and Materials Copyright © 2018 by R.C. Alderliesten, Delft University of Technology is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
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Aerospace and aviation technology
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Introduction to Aerospace Structures and Materials Copyright © 2018 by R.C. Alderliesten, Delft University of Technology is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
Cover image CC-BY TU Delft is a derivation of two images by: Christopher Boffoli, Big Appetites Studio, Seattle, Washington, USA, (http://bigappetites.net), who graciously agreed for us to use his Public Domain photograph of the Boeing 787 fuselage in high resolution, and by Gillian Saunders-Smits, Delft University of Technology with her photograph of a Fokker F100 Cockpit Structure (CC-BY-SA 4.0). The final cover design was made by Marco Neeleman, Delft University of Technology Library.
Every attempt has been made to ensure the correct source of images and other potentially copyrighted material was ascertained, and that all materials included in this book has been attributed and used according to its license. If you believe that a portion of the material infringes someone else’s copyright, please the author directly on: R.C.Alderliesten@tudelft.nl
Partly funded by the TU Delft Extension School (online-learning.tudelft.nl) as part of the development of a Massive Open Online Course in Introduction to Aerospace Structures and Materials.
ISBN E-Pub: 978-94-6366-077-8
ISBN hardcopy: 978-94-6366-074-7
ISBN PDF: 978-94-6366-075-4