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This book describes the role of nonlinear computationalmodeling in the analysis and synthesis of aerospace systems withparticular reference to structural integrity, aerodynamics, structuraloptimization, probabilistic structural mechanics, fracture mechanics,aeroelasticity, and compressible flows.

Aerospace and mechanical engineers specializing in computational sciences,damage tolerant design, structures technology, aerodynamics, andcomputational fluid dynamics will find this text a valuable resource. ... Read more

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Engineering, Construction, and Operations in Challenging Environments: Earth & Space 2004 is the Proceedings of the Ninth Biennial Conference organized by the Aerospace Division of the American Society of Civil Engineers. The conference was held in League City/ Houston, Texas, from March 7-10, 2004. Conference attendees addressed technology challenges relevant to Space, Earth, and other planetary bodies including the Moon and Mars. The goal was to create a multidisciplinary program with a dynamism that would encourage technology transfer between those conducting research and development work in Space and on Earth and those practicing in civil engineering and aerospace disciplines. Included in the Proceedings are 139 papers from academia, aerospace and civil engineering industries, and leading government agencies; the papers address the challenges facing today's aerospace and civil engineering industry and the technology needed for future generations. TOPICS included: Lunar and Martian Exploration and Development; New Frontiers in Technology; Life Support Systems; Structures and Materials; Engineering and Architecture in Extreme Environments; Advanced Space Systems; Field Sensing and Robotics; Space Engineering, Construction, and Architecture; Space Exploration and Transportation; Advanced Technologies for Infrastructure Monitoring; Remote Sensing, GPS and GIS; and Space-Based Water Resources, Hydroclimatology and Hydrometeorology. ... Read more

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Proceedings of the IEEE 2000 National Aerospace and Electronics Conference NAECON 2000: Engineering Tomorrow, held in Dayton, Ohio, October 10-12, 2000. Includes detailed papers with illustrations, charts, tables, and equations on subjects such as avionics, image processing, data compression, digital technology applications, and more. Softcover. ... Read more

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On 17 December 1903 at Kitty Hawk, NC, the Wright brothers succeeded in achieving controlled flight in a heavier-than-air machine. This feat was accomplished by them only after meticulous experiments and a study of the work of others before them like Sir George Cayley, Otto Lilienthal, and Samuel Langley. The first evidence of the academic community becoming interested in human flight is found in 1883 when Professor J. J. Montgomery of Santa Clara College conducted a series of glider tests. Seven years later, in 1890, Octave Chanute presented a number of lectures to students of Sibley College, Cornell University entitled "Aerial Navigation." This book is a collection of papers solicited from U. S. universities or institutions with a history of programs in Aerospace/Aeronautical engineering. There are 69 institutions covered in the 71 chapters. This collection of papers represents an authoritative story of the development of educational programs in the nation that were devoted to human flight. Most of these programs are still in existence but there are a few papers covering the history of programs that are no longer in operation.A comprehensive treatment of the early beginnings of aerospace education are documented in Part I as well as the rapid expansion of educational programs relating to aeronautical engineering that took place in the 1940s. Part II is devoted to the four schools that were pioneers in establishing formal programs. Part III describes the activities of the Guggenheim Foundation that spurred much of the development of programs in aeronautical engineering. Part IV covers the 48 colleges and universities that were formally established in the mid-1930s to the present. The military institutions are grouped together in the Part V; and Part VI presents the histories of those programs that evolved from proprietary institutions. ... 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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This book is designed as an introduction to materialsresearch as well as a guide to anyone who gets in contactwith advanced materials. It may be an introduction forgraduate students of engineering science into the fieldofhighly developed lightweight structural and hightemperature turbine materials. The comprehensive survey mayalso supply materials scientistswith informations on thepresent state-of-the-art, new materials and methodsformaterials testing as well as quick answers to problems, butalso alarge number of reference for more detailed study.Service engineers, not only from the aerospace industry, mayfind valuable details and references. ... Read more

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This edited collection of essays from world-leading academic and industrial authors yields insight into all aspects of reverse engineering. Methods of reverse engineering analysis are covered, along with special emphasis on the investigation of surface and internal structures. Frequently-used hardware and software are assessed and advice given on the most suitable choice of system.

Also covered is rapid prototyping and its relationship with successful reverse engineering.

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Good technical resource, but ignore the last two chapters
This book is a collection of chapters written by various academics and industry representatives.Overall, it is an excellent resource for anyone interested in 3D scanning and reverse engineering, especially as they relate to manufacturing and mechanical CAD/CAM/CAE.Chapters 1 - 4 cover the technological aspects, and do a very good job of it.Because each chapter was contributed by a different group, they are somewhat repetitive, but given the complexity of the topic it's actually useful to get a few different points of view.The only problem with these chapters is that the information is a bit outdated already, but this isn't that surprising given the pace of development in 3D scanning and RE technologies.Of important note is that the book does not cover the so called 3rd generation process of making a parametric CAD solid model from 3D scan data, which is a newer development and is often the best method for mechanical reverse engineering.

Chapters 5 & 6 cover rapid prototyping (RP), which is somewhat off-topic for the premise of the book, but many organizations use reverse engineering and RP together, so it's understandable that the editors included some information about RP technology.

Chapters 7-9 offer various real-world case studies of how 3D scanning has been used by various companies.These 3 chapters were all contributed by a single software vendor in the industry, but generally seem to be impartially written and not just marketing fluff.They serve as useful examples of how different companies make use of 3D scanning/RE.

Unfortunately, the last 2 chapters of the book are not really helpful at all.Chapter 10, Legal Aspects of Reverse Engineering, is especially out of place - it covers software reverse engineering (read: decompiling software to discover its source code).I'm not sure what the editors were thinking when they included this chapter - the book is about industrial RE of physical objects, which has nothing to do with decompiling software.The chapter is at best completely irrelevant and at worst gives the false impression that mechanical RE is akin to software code RE.As for the legal aspects of 3D scanning and mechanical RE, there isn't much case law to refer to, but in general the courts have found that 3D scanning and remodeling of a legally obtained object is legally similar to taking a photograph of an object (Search Meshwerks v. Toyota for a recent decision on the topic).The final chapter on Barriers to Adopting Reverse Engineering isn't particularly helpful either, as it seems to be a general article on capital purchase decisions and has no specific connection to 3D scanning/reverse engineering technology purchases (Chapter 4 does a much better job of informing potential buyers what to look for).

Again, overall I would recommend this book to anyone interested in 3D scanning, and particularly to anyone considering acquiring the technology - just focus on the first four chapters and forget the last 2! ... Read more

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Since the properties of MMCs can be directly designed "into" the material, they can fulfill all the demands set by design engineers.

This book surveys the latest results and development possibilities for MMCs as engineering and functional materials, making it of utmost value to all materials scientists and engineers seeking in-depth background information on the potentials these materials have to offer in research, development and design engineering. ... Read more

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This is the first book in English devoted to the latest developments in fluid mechanics and aerodynamics. Written by the leading authors in the field, based at the renowned Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute in Moscow, it deals with viscous gas flow problems that arise from supersonic flows.These complex problems are central to the work of researchers and engineers dealing with new aircraft and turbomachinery development (jet engines, compressors and other turbine equipment). The book presents the latest asymptotical models, simplified Navier-Stokes equations and viscous-inviscid interaction theroies and will be of critical interest to researchers, engineers, academics and advanced graduate students in the areas of fluid mechanics, compressible flows, aerodynamics and aircraft design, applied mathematics and computational fluid dynamics.

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* The first book in English to cover the latest methodology for incopressible flow analysis of high speed aerodynamics, an essential topic for those working on new generation aircraft and turbomachinery
* Authors are internationally recognised as the leading figures in the field
* Includes a chapter introducing asymptotical methods to enable advanced level students to use the book
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In keeping with its bestselling previous editions, Fundamentals of Aerodynamics, Fifth Edition by John Anderson, offers the most readable, interesting, and up-to-date overview of aerodynamics to be found in any text.

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Excellent service
Very good service; book was in condition as specified, and it was delivered to me in 3 days, even though it was a standard shipping.

Excellent book
I found this to be a very helpful reference book for a refresher on aerodynamics engineering. Concepts sometimes come up at meetings that I am partially familiar with but havnt had to address in a long time.I highly recommned this book if you want a quick read that doesnt go into exhaustive detail.

Excellent Book
The book is in excellent condition and shipped fast. And the price I paid is really a good deal for me.

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Faster delivery than I had thought. Faster than Amazon expected. Great book. I would buy from this vendor again.

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I dunno why we have to do reviews for required textbooks... It's not like you have a choice.This is math.Only all the word problems have to do with aircraft. Yay. ... 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
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The textbook I wished I had 12 years ago
One reviewer said this book wasn't right for US readers. I can understand this: I went to a UK university, did flight mechanics as a 2nd year undergrad and got mired in thousands of symbols for things.

The only books available to us back in 1995-6 were the excellent Etkin and the superb Stevens & Lewis... BUT both were expensive, used totally different symbology and conventions, and ft / lbs / secs. as units too (we used the SI system). This cost us a lot of time and effort -flight mechanics is about understanding aircraft, not about translating symbols between lecture notes and textbooks. It wasn't helped by the fact that we had a flight dynamics lecturer who neither liked nor understood what he was teaching (he told us!).

But a year or two later, this book came out and it was exactly what we should have used. The book used the same notation as our (British) lecturer had done. Better still, there were clear, step-by-step explanations, no nasty surprises, plenty of worked examples, no cop-outs like 'we intuitively see that...'The writing is clear and simple, no matter which system of symbols you're used to. If you're USA-based, you might be better suited to using Etkin, but if you work in the UK system, buy this book ! ! !

Wrong book for the US market
This book itself is okay.But it's not the right book for the US market.This is the first time my professor used this book, he thought it could be an improvement.But he gave up using it completely after a month into the course.

Some of the reference parameters are quite different from US standards, since the author is British.If you are a self-learner in the US, DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK. ... Read more