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Intended for both majors and non-majors taking a first course in Introduction to Aerospace Engineering or Introduction to Flight, Newman's INTERACTIVE AEROSPACE ENGINEERING & DESIGN text will inspire students with its integrated bound-in CD-ROM (PC & Mac compatible); and with its strong emphasis on introducing the design process in a way beginning students can understand. The text/CD's active visual approach and inclusion of space-oriented topics make it ideal for the changing needs of the Aerospace Engineering field. Newman's book is the first in its course area to include integrated multimedia resources. The CD-ROM, bound in with every book, includes the entire text in pdf form for electronic viewing options. It also integrates extensive animations, QuickTime movies, and Matlab-based simulations to motivate student readers. Quicktime movies of a student design project competition is included to convey the importance of team-oriented design to readers, and a section on human-powered flight points out the design choices made for these types of machines. A gallery of additional full-color illustrations, keyed to the text, is also included on the CD-ROM. Newman also provides strong coverage of basic aerodynamics concepts and applications, fixed-wing aircraft topics, orbital mechanics, satellites & spacecraft, and space mission endeavors.Additional support is available on the Book Website:www.mhhe.com/engcs/aero/newman/ ... Read more

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Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students is the leading self contained aircraft structures course text. It covers all fundamental subjects, including elasticity, structural analysis, airworthiness and aeroelasticity. Now in its fourth edition, the author has revised and updated the text throughout and added new case study and worked example material to make the text even more accessible. Includes a Solutions Manual available to all adopting teachers.

* New organization aids understanding of the fundamentals of structural analysis and emphasizes applications to aircraft
structures
* New worked examples throughout the text aid understanding and relate concepts to real world applications
* Additional coverage includes virtual work, tension field beams, post buckling behavior, material properties, composite structures and crack propagation
* An extensive aircraft design project case study shows the application of the major techniques in the book
* End of chapter exercises and accompanying Instructor's Manual at http://textbooks.elsevier.com ... Read more

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Used increasingly in telecommunications, scientific research, surveillance, and meteorology, satellites rely heavily on complex onboard control systems. This book explains the basic theory of spacecraft dynamics and control and the practical aspects of controlling a satellite. The emphasis is on analyzing and solving real-world engineering problems.Among the topics covered are orbital dynamics, attitude dynamics, gravity gradient stabilization, single and dual spin stabilization, attitude maneuvers, attitude stabilization, and structural dynamics and liquid sloshing. ... Read more

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Reverse engineering is the process of discovering the technological principles of an object or component through analysis of its structure and function. Such analysis can then be used to redesign the object very quickly using computer-aided design in concert with rapid-manufacturing processes to produce small numbers of components adapted to the needs of a particular customer. This way of working has huge benefits of speed and flexibility over traditional mass-production-based design and manufacturing processes.

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Moderate! not that great!
The book has some general iinformation. It gives some basic insight into the aerospace industry but not the whole. It is like a fresh up or first time information for someone who does not know anything about that field.If you don't know anything, then Read! it otherwise look for somethingelse. ... Read more

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Over the last fifty years, the ability to carry out analysis as a precursor to decision making in engineering design has increased dramatically. In particular, the advent of modern computing systems and the development of advanced numerical methods have made computational modelling a vital tool for producing optimized designs.

This text explores how computer-aided analysis has revolutionized aerospace engineering, providing a comprehensive coverage of the latest technologies underpinning advanced computational design. Worked case studies and over 500 references to the primary research literature allow the reader to gain a full understanding of the technology, giving a valuable insight into the world’s most complex engineering systems.

Key Features:

• Includes background information on the history of aerospace design and established optimization, geometrical and mathematical modelling techniques, setting recent engineering developments in a relevant context.
• Examines the latest methods such as evolutionary and response surface based optimization, adjoint and numerically differentiated sensitivity codes, uncertainty analysis, and concurrent systems integration schemes using grid-based computing.
• Methods are illustrated with real-world applications of structural statics, dynamics and fluid mechanics to satellite, aircraft and aero-engine design problems.

Cover image reproduced by kind permission of Andreas Sóbester. ... Read more

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should be a requirement in aerospace engineering curriculum
Covers most of the problems encountered in the process of computational design optimization, such as the curse of dimensionality, time consuming objective functions, sparce data, uncertainties, etc.The broad and succinct coverage of different optimization and modeling techniques (function approximation or surrogate models) in one volume is quite a remarkable achievement.For the novice, the hardest part is the selection of an appropriatemethod to tackle the problem at hand, because the literature is innundated with overwhelming number of new and classic methods.This book will help the reader make an informed decision on what and whichapproach to take.This is a major time saver.

The book does not cover everything but does quite a good job of covering the major "schoools of thoughts."You will still need to dig the referenced materials for details and implementation. ... Read more

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Orbital mechanics is a cornerstone subject for aerospace engineering students. However, with its basis in classical physics and mechanics, it can be a difficult and weighty subject. Howard Curtis - Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Embry-Riddle University, the US's #1 rated undergraduate aerospace school - focuses on what students at undergraduate and taught masters level really need to know in this hugely valuable text. Fully supported by the analytical features and computer based tools required by today's students, it brings a fresh, modern, accessible approach to teaching and learning orbital mechanics. A truly essential new resource.

* A complete, stand-alone text for this core aerospace engineering subject
* Richly-detailed, up-to-date curriculum coverage; clearly and logically developed to meet the needs of students
* Highly illustrated and fully supported with downloadable MATLAB algorithms for project and practical work; with fully worked examples throughout, Q&A material, extensive homework exercises and an Instructor's Manual. ... Read more

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Great Text - Steal of a price.
With textbook prices continuing the trend of double every year, it's about time that a useful text can also be affordable, great text for learning and understanding space flight, includes MatLab algorithms!

A More "Engineering" Approach
Good book, but with typos here and there. There is an errata if you search for the book's website and most of the errors you can spot easily. What makes this book especially useful are the MATLAB functions, which allow you to implement the theory without having to debug newly written code (this is more time consuming, than difficult).

This is however a beginner's book into orbital mechanics, but gets the job done if you want to sim a basic interplanetary mission relatively accurately. For a more refined approach with I would suggest "Spacecraft Attitude Dynamics" by Hughes.

good content, however!
The book contains good and applicable content for basic orbital mechanics. However, it is riddled with annoying typos and errors with no errata to be found. As an expensive textbook one would expect more care. ... Read more

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In the current, increasingly aggressive business environment, crucial decisions about product design often involve significant uncertainty. Highlighting the competitive advantage available from using risk-based reliability design, Engineering Design Reliability Applications: For the Aerospace, Automotive, and Ship Industries provides an overview of how to apply probabilistic approaches and reliability methods to practical engineering problems using real life engineering applications. A one-step resource, the book demonstrates the latest technology, how others have used it to increase their competitiveness, and how you can use it to do the same.The book makes the case for accurate assessment of the reliability of engineering systems, simple, complex, or large-scale. It presents two computer programs for reliability analysis and demonstrates these programs on aircraft engines, structures used for testing explosives, medical and automotive systems. The focus then shifts to aircraft and space systems, including lap joints, gas turbines, and actively controlled space structures. The editors provide analytical tools for reliability analysis, design optimization, and sensitivity analysis of automotive systems. They include a general methodology for reliability assessment of ship structures and highlight reliability analysis of composite materials and structures.Delineating generic tools and computer programs applicable to any situation, the book shows you how to quantify, understand, and control uncertainties, reduce risk, and increase reliability using real-life examples. Engineers from the industry and national labs as well as university researchers present success stories and quantify the benefits of reliability design for their organizations. They demonstrate how to convince colleagues and management of the potential benefits of these approaches in allowing their organizations to gain significant benefits and dramatically increase their competitiveness. ... Read more

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A Start at Understanding Aerospace Engineering Education
Anniversaries always spark historical publications celebrating whatever anniversary that is in vogue. The centennial of the first flight of the Wright brothers in December 2003 was no exception. This book is one product of that commemoration. It is essentially a collection of papers about the history of aerospace engineering education in the United States, each written by a different author or set of authors, especially focused on institutional history of 69 separate institutions created to train engineers in the mechanics of flight.

The work is divided into six major parts. The first contains a general overview of the origins of aerospace engineering education. Part II focuses on the founding institutions in the field--MIT, the University of Detroit, the University of Michigan, and New York University. Part III explores the Guggenheim Foundation's efforts to further flight since the 1920s. Part IV, by far the largest section of the book, has individual chapters chronologically arranged about the major institutions of higher learning training aerospace engineers. In this section, there are capsule summaries of such stellar engineering schools as Caltech, Auburn University, and Purdue University, to name only a few. In Part V the authors review the role of the military service academies in training aerospace engineers. And to conclude the volume, Part VI contains succinct accounts of training programs evolved from corporations and other propriety institutions such as Boeing and Northrop.

This is a useful work of compilation for bringing together the summaries of these various institutions. There is very little commonality of ingredients from chapter to chapter, and no sense of a single theme or thesis, so anyone using it to build a picture of the discipline will have to be creative in the use of the information. Some articles are referenced, others not. Some contain curricula over time, some do not. None ask overarching historical questions about the development of the aerospace engineering discipline. There is a discernable focus on individuals and heroic research and teaching. There are basic components of any work of non-fiction that are missing, such as an index.

In the end "Aerospace Engineering Education During the First Century of Flight" is very much a history written by and for aerospace engineers. For all its virtues, and there are some, the overview offered here is replete with the linear process of aerospace "progress" to the very great exclusion of any social or cultural factors that might have influenced the evolution of the discipline. There is little of the obscurity of choices about research and training that might have enriched this story. We await a comprehensive and innovative history of this important subdiscipline in engineering education. There is yet to be written for aerospace engineers such a work as C.R. Day's "Education for the Industrial World: The Ecole d'Arts et Mtiers and the Rise of French Industrial Engineering" (MIT Press, 1987), which provides an outstanding case study in the evolution of technological consciousness, or even John Hubbel Weiss's "The Making of Technological Man: The Social Origins of French Engineering Education" (MIT Press, 1982). Even so, this is a moderately useful book. ... Read more

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The study of flight dynamics requires a thorough understanding of the theory of the stability and control of aircraft, an appreciation of flight control systems and a comprehensive grounding in the theory of automatic control. Flight Dynamics provides all three in an accessible and student focussed text.

Written for those coming to the subject for the first time the book is suitable as a complete first course text. It provides a secure foundation from which to move on to more advanced topics such a non-linear flight dynamics, simulation and advanced flight control, and is ideal for those on course including flight mechanics, aircraft handling qualities, aircraft stability and control.

Enhances by detailed worked examples, case studies and aircraft operating condition software, this complete course text, by a renowned flight dynamicist, is widely used on aircraft engineering courses

Suitable as a complete first course text, it provides a secure foundation from which to move on to more advanced topics such a non-linear flight dynamics, simulation and advanced flight control
End of chapter exercises, detailed worked examples, and case studies aid understanding and relate concepts to real world applications
Covers key contemporary topics including all aspects of optimization, emissions, regulation and automatic flight control and UAVs
Accompanying MathCAD software source code for performance model generation and optimization
Instructor's Manual and image bank for downloading by registered instructors available online ... Read more

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This dictionary is an essential tool for people who must read and understand technical content regarding the aerospace industry and specific aircraft. An ideal reference for engineering and physics students, it is based on three previous editions of the popular Jane's Aerospace Dictionary by Bill Gunston, OBE, FraeS, one of the most widely read and respected aviation writers of all time. Gunston has added over 15,000 new terms as well as brief explanations of aerospace materials and organizations to this new edition. Terms used in the dictionary reflect the diverse and international nature of the aerospace industry. Bill Gunston is a renowned and prolific aerospace journalist. Currently an editor with Jane's Information Group, he has also served as a technical editor for Flight International and Science Journal and is the author of over 300 books. A former RAF pilot, Gunston's distinguished fifty-year professional career has led to appointments as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire and as a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. ... Read more

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Featuring outstanding depth of coverage, this book is destined to become a standard reference on the desks of engineering professionals worldwide. The book presents a summary of the state-of-the-art in the field as well as interpretations of current and future trends. Organized by subject, each section provides important concept statements, definitions, design and analysis approaches, procedures, and methodologies. The unparalleled range of topics includes aerodynamics, sensors and actuators, aircraft design and control, spacecraft (including launch vehicles and satellites), airports, the role of aerospace engineering in automobile design, nautical systems, and more. ... Read more

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Statistics is the science of the collection, organization, analysis, and interpretation of numerical data, especially the analysis of population characteristics by inference from sampling.In engineering work this includes such different tasks as predicting the reliability of space launch vehicles and subsystems, lifetime analysis of spacecraft system components, failure analysis, and tolerance limits. A common engineering definition of statistics states that statistics is the science of guiding decisions in the face of uncertainties.An earlier definition was statistics is the science of making decisions in the face of uncertainties, but the verb making has been moderated to guiding. Statistical procedures can vary from the drawing and assessment of a few simple graphs to carrying out very complex mathematical analysis with the use of computers; in any application, however, there is the essential underlying influence of "chance."Whether some natural phenomenon is being observed or a scientific experiment is being carried out, the analysis will be statistical if it is impossible to predict the data exactly with certainty. The theory of probability had, strangely enough, a clearly recognizable and rather definitive start.It occurred in France in 1654.The French nobleman Chevalier de Mere had reasoned falsely that the probability of getting at least one six with 4 throws of a single die was the same as the probability of getting at least one "double six" in 24 throws of a pair of dice.This misconception gave rise to a correspondence between the French mathematician Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) and his mathematician friend Pierre Fermat (1601-1665) to whom he wrote: "Monsieur le Chevalier de Mere is very bright, but he is not a mathematician, and that, as you know, is a very serious defect." CONTENTS:Introduction -Preliminary Remarks - Statistical Potpourri - Measurement Scales - Probability and Set Theory Probability Definitions of Probability - Combinatorial Analysis (Counting Techniques) - Basic Laws of Probability - Probability Distributions - Distribution (Population) Parameters - Chebyshev's Theorem - Special Discrete Probability Functions - Special Continuous Distributions - Joint Distribution Functions - Mathematical Expectation - Functions of Random Variables - Central Limit Theorem (Normal Convergence Theorem) - Simulation (Monte Carlo Methods) Statistic Estimation Theory - Point Estimation - Sampling Distributions - Interval Estimation - Tolerance Limits - Hypothesis/Significance Testing - Curve Fitting, Regression, and Correlation - Goodness-of-Fit Tests - Quality Control - Reliability and Life Testing - Error Propagation Law Bibliography ... Read more

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In this monograph, a mathematical formulation and its finite element solution algorithm is presented for the analysis of creep, shrinkage and cracking in cementitous materials. ... Read more

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This established and authoritative text focuses on the design and analysis of nonlinear control systems. The author considers the latest research results and techniques in this updated and extended edition.

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Isidori's Magnum Opus
This is simply the best book written on nonlinear control theory.The contents form the basis for feedback linearization techniques, nonlinear observers, sliding mode control, understanding relative degree, nonminimum phase systems, exact linearization, and a host of other topics.A careful reading of this book will provide vast rewards.A fantastic book. ... Read more

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Aerospace Software Engineering brings you the knowledge of some of the finest software engineers in the world-in a single volume.

This text is an essential guide for the aerospace program manager who must deal with software as part of the overall system and a valuable update for the practicing software engineer. ... Read more

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Civil and military aircraftand aerospace vehicles in generalface two related problems:
- They depend heavily upon electronic systems and thus must be shielded against electromagnetic interference (EMI). This interference may come in the form of lighting strikes, interference from radio emitters, nuclear electromagnetic pulses (EMP), or even high power microwave (HPM) threats
- Environmental conditions including moisture, rain, and pollution from the atmosphere may corrode airframes, skin, and other bonded joints. Most importantly, this corrosion may damage the conductivity and electromagnetic shielding of the vehicle