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Author:   Ahmed K. Noor
Publisher:   American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics
Imprint:   American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.712kg
ISBN:  

9781563471162

ISBN 10:   1563471167
Pages:   350
Publication Date:   30 April 1997
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock  
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Table of Contents

Structure and Materials Impasse?; Structure and Materials (State-of-the-Art - 1960); New Era Dawns for Flight Materials and Structures; Structures Technology - Generic/General; Developing Structures Technology for the Day After Tomorrow; Structures - a Technology Overview; Aircraft Structures Technology; The NASA Structures and Materials Research Programme for Supersonic Cruise Aircraft; The Next Careful Steps in Commercial Aircraft Structures; Tomorrow's Structural Engineering; Structural Configurations; Structural Comparison of Perforated Skin Surfaces with Other Means of Effecting Boundary-Layer Control by Suction; Integrally Stiffened Structures; Sandwich Construction; Thermal Protection Systems; The Shuttle Tile Story; Refractory Metals for Thermal Protection Systems; Thermal Protection for Space Vehicles; Structures for Aircraft; Very Large Vehicles - To Be Or...?; Large-Vehicle Concepts; Development of Optimum Structure for Large Aircraft; Design of Air Frames for Nuclear Power; Structures for Supersonic and Hypersonic Vehicles; Turning Up the Heat on Aircraft Structures; Getting Up to Speed in Hypersonic Structures; Structures for Hypervelocity Flight; Hypersonic Structures and Materials - a Progress Report; Developing HST Structural Technology; Engineering for the High Temperature Age of Flight; Unique Structural Problems in Supersonic Aircraft Design; Structures for Space Systems; Structures that Adapt to Space; New Economic Structures for Space in the Eighties; Developing the Structure to Carry Man to the Planets; Structures and Material in the Long-Duration Manned Spacecraft; Expandable Structures for Space; Materials and Structures for Space Stations; Space Platforms for Building Large Space Structures; Practical Design of Low-Cost Large Space Structures; Structures for Solar Power Satellites; An Entree for Large Space Antennas; Magellan - Aerobraking at Venus; Aerobraking and Aerocapture for Planetary Missions; A New Cryogenic Storage System for Spacecraft; Applications of Materials to Solid-Rocket Nozzles. (Part contents).

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