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| Mechanics of Aircraft Structures | 
 enlarge | Author: C. T. Sun
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
List Price: $130.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (10 reviews)
Sales Rank: 90634
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 0471699667
Dewey Decimal Number: 629.13431
EAN: 9780471699668
ASIN: 0471699667
Publication Date: April 28, 2006
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Product Description
Designed to help students get a solid background in structural mechanics and extensively updated to help professionals get up to speed on recent advances
This Second Edition of the bestselling textbook Mechanics of Aircraft Structures combines fundamentals, an overview of new materials, and rigorous analysis tools into an excellent one-semester introductory course in structural mechanics and aerospace engineering. It's also extremely useful to practicing aerospace or mechanical engineers who want to keep abreast of new materials and recent advances. Updated and expanded, this hands-on reference covers:
* Introduction to elasticity of anisotropic solids, including mechanics of composite materials and laminated structures
* Stress analysis of thin-walled structures with end constraints
* Elastic buckling of beam-column, plates, and thin-walled bars
* Fracture mechanics as a tool in studying damage tolerance and durability
Designed and structured to provide a solid foundation in structural mechanics, Mechanics of Aircraft Structures, Second Edition includes more examples, more details on some of the derivations, and more sample problems to ensure that students develop a thorough understanding of the principles.
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 Worst textbook I have ever used. January 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I won't go into much detail about the frustrating and inadequate nature of this book, as many others have already done so. Basically, all you need to know about this book is that it is a waste of time. The author rarely explains anything with sufficient detail and seems to expect you to already know an incredible amount about aircraft structures. My TA even told us that we had better come to class every day, because the textbook is pretty much worthless.
I wondered why anyone would force students to waste money on a book that is cleary insufficient, but then I recognized the author's name. It seems the only reason why I am forced to buy this book is because the author is a professor at my school.
Just stay away from this book if you can.
 A little helpful November 9, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book was only a little help. It doesn't clearly explain the material. If you are learning only from the book, you will most likely be lost. It was an alright suppliment to the lecture and helped a little on homework, but I would not recommend the book if it is not required.
 Good book, but you should already know the basics October 24, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is the required book for my graduate class on structures. Its best if you already have a familiarity with the basic concepts of stress and strain, torsion, bending, etc. It has good examples, though, and the problems at the end of the chapter are not too hard (tho, they do required a lot of algebra and plug-and-chug). There are not selected answers in the back.
If you're looking for a good basic book on structures, this one probably isn't for you.
Also, they don't actually talk a whole lot about applications to aircraft structures. What the book DOES do is cover the basic theories that one would need to start to analyze aircraft structures. It does not cover design of aircraft structures.
Use a different book July 18, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I had to use this book in my structures class. I had no prior experience with structures before, and this book was unable to fill the gap. As a result, I've got a D in a class, and I will have to re-take it. If you have to use the Sun's book, supplement it with "Aircraft structures for engineering students" 3rd ed by T.H.G. Megson ISBN 0-340-70588-4. It follows the same notation as Sun (even some drawings are identical), and it's much, much, much more thorough. The Sun's book by itself can be useful only to people with prior experience with structures who just have to use this particular book.
The Good and the Bad, mostly the Bad. December 11, 2004
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I was required to purchase this book for my Junior level A&AE Structural Analysis Course. Chock full of theory and derivations, it doesn't set forth a clear path for learning, but rather a thicket in which problems sets are solved by wildly searching backward in the book for equations and examples in order to help make some sense of the problem at hand. While the book is full of good problems, the concepts tested in the problems are not always clearly explained (What the heck is shear flow anyway?).
This book is recommended as a junior or senior level structures text, but how well it is received depends highly upon the Professor's lecture style (Straight from the text?(=bad) or supplemental to the text?(=not as bad)).
The Bad outweigh the Good.
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