By
Dr. Bjorn Backman, Structure and Materials Structured Research, Camano Island, WA, USA
Description
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.
Audience:
Academia: Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineering Depts, and Materials Science and Engineering Departments.
Industry:
Practicing Engineers and Scientists in Structures, Materials Science, Airworthiness, Safety, Quality Control, for testing, design, development
and applied research
Government: Practising engineers and Scientists at NASA, DOD, DARPA, NTSB,…. For research
and development of improved safety, (of space shuttles), Innovative structural concepts, better materials, “Crisper” regulations for
safety.
