Aircraft Conceptual Design Synthesis: by Denis Howe

                                          

This is inevitably an iterative procedure which consists of alternative phases of synthesis and analysis. Many compromises are inevitable. Aerodynamic performance has to be matched access the operating speed range, blended with power plant characteristics, yield satisfactory control and stability and at the same time not unduly penalise structural considerations and the consequent mass penalties. The integration of advanced flying control systems with the aerodynamic and structural design is a unique and vital procedure. At the same time as the technical aspects of the design are under consideration it is essential to allow for manufacturing considerations. The whole design process must make use of the most advanced tools available in computer aided design and manufacturing. There are a number of excellent texts which cover many of the various facets of initial aircraft design. Some concentrate on one or two of the implied disciplines to the detriment of the others. Although some include consideration of the initial, synthesis, phase of the design the usual emphasis is on analytical methods. Certain of these texts are also restricted, implicitly or explicitly, to particular classes of aircraft.

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Stability and Control of Aircraft Systems: Introduction to Classical Feedback Control

                                                 


Stability and Control of Aircraft Systems is an easy-to-read and understand text that describes control theory using minimal mathematics. It focuses on simple rules, tools and methods for the analysis and testing of feedback control systems using real systems engineering design and development examples. Clarifies the design and development of feedback control systems,
Communicates the theory in an accessible manner that does not require the reader to have a strong mathematical background, Illustrated throughout with figures and tables. Stability and Control of Aircraft Systems provides both the seasoned engineer and the graduate with the know-how necessary to minimize problems with fielded systems in the area of operational performance. In the current climate of increasing complexity and functional integration in all areas of engineering and technology, stability and control are becoming essential ingredients of engineering knowledge. Many of today's products contain multiple engineering technologies, and what were once simple mechanical, hydraulic or pneumatic products now contain integrated electronics and sensors. Control theory reduces these widely varied technical components into their important dynamic characteristics, expressed as transfer functions, from which the subtleties of dynamic behaviors can be analyzed and understood.

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Aircraft Design Projects for Engineering Students, Illustrated

                                             

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Introduction to Aircraft Performance, Selection and Design

                                                  
The treatment of aircraft performance, designed for a first course in aeronautical or aerospace engineering for undergraduate engineers. Provides an understanding of why conventional aircraft look and fly the way they do. This well written text covers turbofan and turboprop propulsion, subjects often avoided in other texts.

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Introduction to Aircraft Aeroelasticity and Loads

                                                             


This new textbook introduces the foundations of aeroelasticity and loads for the flexible aircraft, providing an understanding of the main concepts involved and relating them to aircraft behavior and industrial practice. Aeroelastic phenomena arising from the interaction of aerodynamic, elastic and inertia forces, and the loads resulting from flight / ground manoeuvres and gust / turbulence encounters, have a significant influence upon aircraft design. The prediction of aircraft aeroelastic stability, response and loads requires application of a range of interrelated engineering disciplines.

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