Airframe Structural Design (Hardcover)

by Mike Niu (Author)

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Product Description
This book represents several decades of data collection, research, conversations with different airframe specialists, plus the author's more than twenty years' experience in airframe structural design. From structural standpoint, the book is intended to be used as a tool to help achieve structural integrity according to government regulations, specifications, criteria, etc., for designing commercial or military transports, military fighters, as well as general aviation aircraft. It can be considered as a troubleshooting guide for airline structural maintenance and repair engineers or as a supplementary handbook in teaching aircraft structural design in college. This book is divided into a total of sixteen chapter and emphasizes itemized write-ups, tables, graphs and illustrations to lead directly to points of interest. The data can be used for designing and sizing airframe structures and, wherever needed, example calculations are presented for clarification. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

About the Author
Prof. Michael C. Y. Niu is the president of AD Airframe Consulting Company and is a metallic and composite airframe consultant. He has acquired over 35 years experience in aerospace and airframe structural analysis and design. He was a Senior Research and Development Engineer (management position) at Lockheed Aeronautical Systems Company and he has been the Department Manager in charge of various structural programs, including development of innovative structural design concepts for both metallic and composite materials that are applicable to current and/or future advanced tactical fighters and advanced transports.
At Lockheed, he was involved in airplane conceptual and preliminary design and was stress lead engineer responsible for the L-1011 wide body aircraft wing and empennage structures. During 1966 and 1968, he served as stress engineer to B727, B747, etc. at The Boeing Company in Seattle. Prof. Niu is the author of the texts, AIRFRAME STRUCTURAL DESIGN (Second Edition, 1999), COMPOSITE AIRFRAME STRUCTURES (1992), and AIRFRAME STRESS ANALYSIS AND SIZING (Second Edition, 1999). He has also written Lockheed's Composites Design Guide and Composites Drafting Handbook. He received the Lockheed Award of Achievement and Award of Product Excellence in 1973 and 1986 respectively. He is listed in Who's Who in Aviation, 1973. Prof. Niu is a consulting professor at Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics and chair professor at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics of the People's Republic of China. He has been an honorary adviser in structures and airplane design to the Aero Industry development Center (AIDC), Taiwan (China) since 1973. Prof. Niu received a B. S. in Hydraulic Engineering from Chungyuan University, Taiwan, in 1962 and M. S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Wyoming in 1966. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 612 pages
• Publisher: Technical Book Co (June 1988)
• ISBN-10: 962712804X
• ISBN-13: 978-9627128045
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.1 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #583,763 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Fire the proof editor!, September 5, 2001

By	"ruok101" (GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Airframe Structural Design: Practical Design Information and Data on Aircraft Structures (Hardcover)

The first edition has so many errors, typo and otherwise, that I believe the author and his publishers rushed without proper proofreading just to get it printed and out the door so they could start selling it. The content is very much the same as Niu's other book, Airframe Structural Design, except the chapter arrangements. Nevertheless, the worked-out problems are very helpful and practical and make this book valuable.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Niu, Airframe Structural Design, 2nd Ed. - Review, August 15, 2006

By	James A. Dugelby (San Antonio, Texas, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Airframe Structural Design: Practical Design Information and Data on Aircraft Structures (Hardcover)

Micahael Niu has filled a void that has existed since E.F. Bruhn last published his book thirty years ago. I recommend all of Niu's books, and this one is no exception. It is full of design details and recommendations that are difficult if not impossible to obtain without extensive experience in many companies. It is a book to be studied, however, not simply glanced at. The practicing designer should do well to periodically re-visit this book before undertaking a new assignment.

Unlike his other books on stress analysis, this is a design reference only, with few examples of calculations that provide further insight into the reasons for the design recommendations provided. It is thus a complementary book, and a good addition to any aircraft reference library.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good book for aerospace engineers, April 21, 2002

By	Maggie (Montreal, QC CANADA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Airframe Structural Design: Practical Design Information and Data on Aircraft Structures (Hardcover)

This book is really well done, it has everything you ever
wanted to know about sizing an airplane... it has helped
me in my Airframe Structure class + project.
One thing though: beware that there are many errors
(typos and calculations) in the book.