Composite Structures, Design, Safety and Innovation - Softcover

Backman, B. F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0444549323 ISBN 13: 9780444549327

Publisher: Elsevier Science, 2013

Synopsis

Aerospace structural design, especially for large aircraft, is an empirical pursuit dominated by rules of thumb and often-painful service experiences. Expertise on traditional materials is not transferable to "new" materials, processes and structural concepts. This is because it is not based on or derived from well-defined measures of safety. This book addresses the need for safe innovation based on practical, explicit structural safety constraints for use in innovative structures of the future where guiding service experience is non-existent. The book covers new ground by the demonstration of ways to satisfy levels of safety by focusing on structural integrity; and complementing the lack of service experience with risk management, based on flexible inspection methods recognizing that safety is a function of time. Fundamentally the book shoes demonstrates how safety methods can be made available to the engineering community without requiring huge statistical databases to establish internal and external loads distributions for use in reliability analysis. An essential title for anyone working on structural integrity, or composite structures. It will be of equal interest to aerospace engineers and materials scientists working in academia, industry and government.

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Review

"The book should be read by all involved in the design of aerospace structures"
- International Journal of Fatigue, John Summerscales, Advanced Composite Manufacturing Centre, University of Plymouth

Edition details

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0444549323
• ISBN 13: 9780444549327
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 260