Analysis and Design of Flight Vehicle Structures
by E. F. Bruhn
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Author: E. F. BruhnEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1973-06
ISBN: 0961523409
Number of pages: 650
Publisher: Jacobs Pub
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Book Review: Elmer Bruhn Rocks!
Summary: 5 Stars
While many of the methods in the book have been overshadowed by Finite Element Analysis, they provide valuable insight into the fundamentals of aircraft design and an appreciation for the men and women that designed aircraft before John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry invented the electronic digital computer at Iowa State University.
Today you won't find many aircraft stress analysts using the Moment Distribution (Hardy Cross) Method, Slope Deflection Method, Method of Elastic Weights or the Methods of Dummy Unit-Loads, Area Moments, Virtual Work, Influence Coefficients ... but working on an example in this book is good, clean fun and frustration ... for the "geek" in all of us.
Some of the standard cliches apply to Analysis and Design of Flight Vehicle Structures. It is the analyst's "best friend" ... "a classic" ... "finer than frog hair split four ways" ... "the stress analyst's Bible" ... that "kicks [...] and takes names" ... and has "withstood the test of time".
If you like puzzles, you will love this book. It contains more aircraft stress analysis examples than you can solve in one lifetime. Many examples remind me of a combination of crossword puzzle, Jumble and Sodoku .... only more difficult ... and less fun. Examples range in difficulty from elementary ... to more painful than a root canal without Lidocaine done by your mother-in-law before electricity.
The problems are condensed. The book could easily be expanded to a five volume set. I would organize it differently ... but as Marge and Homer Simpson might say, "It's easy to criticize ... and FUN TOO!"
While there are many minor errors or "typos" in the book ... a few worth mentioning are:
Page B1.8 Ramberg Osgood Stress-Strain Curve - Add "3/7" before the parentheses to equation (3).
Page C1.9 Octahedral Shear Stress Theory - Top equation in right column ... portion in last parentheses should square each term within and not outside.
Page C11.17 Average and Maximum Stress in Upright or Web Stiffener - Column 1, Section C11.20, fs ... .05 ( 1 - k ) should be 0.50 ( 1 - k ) and the area of the upright should be the effective area of the upright. See NACA TN 2661, page 19, equation (30a).
William F. McCombs of Dallas, Texas has written excellent supplements for Analysis and Design of Flight Vehicle Structures. Titles include ... "A Supplement to Analysis and Design of Flight Vehicle Structures" and "Engineering Column Analysis - The Analysis of Compression Members".
Dr. Bruhn has taught me more from beyond the grave than I learned cramming five years of college into nine. Many thanks to his family and publisher for keeping this book in print.
Mange Takk!
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