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Introduction to Aircraft Aeroelasticity and Loads (Aerospace Series)

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Aeroelasticity is a tough subject to start off. However, this book will pave your way quite substantially. Once you have gone through your first Flight Dynamics course (and by this time you most likely have taken the Vibration course too), you are ready to read this book. Totally self contained, the book is a smooth transition from rigid body representation of the aircraft to the elastic one. It covers not only the static and dynamic flutter, but also responses to gusts, atmospheric turbulence, landing, and rolling on ground.

Imagine your linear flight dynamic model taking into account the elastic degree of freedom along with unsteady aerodynamics. This is a very realistic and natural extension from the rigid body model but somehow I have hardly seen Flight Dynamics text books doing that, except Bernard Etkin's book very briefly touching on the topic. The current book fills this gap well at a level accessible to third or fourth year undergraduate student in Aerospace Engineering.