Structures technology : historical perspective and evolution
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Structures technology : historical perspective and evolution
AIAA, 1998
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This new book, drawn from the pages of ""Aerospace America"" and its predecessors, rescues the insights, concerns and dreams of dozens of structural engineers for the next generation of aerospace scientists and engineers. Written by eminent individuals in structures, this book provides accessible source material for university-level design courses in aerospace engineering.
Table of Contents
- Structure and Materials Impasse?
- Structure and Materials (State-of-the-Art - 1960)
- New Era Dawns for Flight Materials and Structures
- Structures Technology - Generic/General
- Developing Structures Technology for the Day After Tomorrow
- Structures - a Technology Overview
- Aircraft Structures Technology
- The NASA Structures and Materials Research Programme for Supersonic Cruise Aircraft
- The Next Careful Steps in Commercial Aircraft Structures
- Tomorrow's Structural Engineering
- Structural Configurations
- Structural Comparison of Perforated Skin Surfaces with Other Means of Effecting Boundary-Layer Control by Suction
- Integrally Stiffened Structures
- Sandwich Construction
- Thermal Protection Systems
- The Shuttle Tile Story
- Refractory Metals for Thermal Protection Systems
- Thermal Protection for Space Vehicles
- Structures for Aircraft
- Very Large Vehicles - To Be Or...?
- Large-Vehicle Concepts
- Development of Optimum Structure for Large Aircraft
- Design of Air Frames for Nuclear Power
- Structures for Supersonic and Hypersonic Vehicles
- Turning Up the Heat on Aircraft Structures
- Getting Up to Speed in Hypersonic Structures
- Structures for Hypervelocity Flight
- Hypersonic Structures and Materials - a Progress Report
- Developing HST Structural Technology
- Engineering for the High Temperature Age of Flight
- Unique Structural Problems in Supersonic Aircraft Design
- Structures for Space Systems
- Structures that Adapt to Space
- New Economic Structures for Space in the Eighties
- Developing the Structure to Carry Man to the Planets
- Structures and Material in the Long-Duration Manned Spacecraft
- Expandable Structures for Space
- Materials and Structures for Space Stations
- Space Platforms for Building Large Space Structures
- Practical Design of Low-Cost Large Space Structures
- Structures for Solar Power Satellites
- An Entree for Large Space Antennas
- Magellan - Aerobraking at Venus
- Aerobraking and Aerocapture for Planetary Missions
- A New Cryogenic Storage System for Spacecraft
- Applications of Materials to Solid-Rocket Nozzles. (Part contents).
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