Book Description
A unique and indispensable guide to modern airship design and operation, for researchers and professionals working in mechanical and aerospace engineering.
Author : G. A. Khoury
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 45,48 MB
Release : 2004-08-19
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780521607537
A unique and indispensable guide to modern airship design and operation, for researchers and professionals working in mechanical and aerospace engineering.
Author : Philip V. Hunt
Publisher : AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics)
Page : pages
File Size : 43,3 MB
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Airships
ISBN : 9781624103513
Author : Margaret McNair Stokes
Publisher :
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 17,7 MB
Release : 1890*
Category : Christian antiquities
ISBN :
Author : Philip V. Hunt
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 36,12 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Airships
ISBN : 9781523100767
This book outlines important airship design and practicability considerations and suggests a design approach that will result in successful development programs and lead to airships that are in synch with 21st century aviation practices and advanced military commercial operating utility needs. The need for economical heavy lift transportation as well as specialized intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) platforms is an opportune time to look again at lighter-than-air vehicle technology. An airship revival has proven difficult due to failed or canceled airship programs proving corrosive to the perceived viability of the technology. If the present revival of interest in airships is to avoid a new generation of failures, or an inability to achieve promised results, it is essential to introduce an era of more prudent airship design, clear vision, and better management. --
Author : Charles Paine Burgess
Publisher :
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 28,93 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Airships
ISBN :
Author : Angelo Miele
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,54 MB
Release : 2006-04-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0306486377
Advanced Design Problems in Aerospace Engineering, Volume 1: Advanced Aerospace Systems presents six authoritative lectures on the use of mathematics in the conceptual design of various types of aircraft and spacecraft. It covers the following topics: design of rocket-powered orbital spacecraft (Miele/Mancuso), design of Moon missions (Miele/Mancuso), design of Mars missions (Miele/Wang), design of an experimental guidance system with a perspective flight path display (Sachs), neighboring vehicle design for a two-stage launch vehicle (Well), and controller design for a flexible aircraft (Hanel/Well). This is a reference book of interest to engineers and scientists working in aerospace engineering and related topics.
Author : Leland Malcolm Nicolai
Publisher : AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics)
Page : 940 pages
File Size : 25,95 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN :
The aircraft is only a transport mechanism for the payload, and all design decisions must consider payload first. Simply stated, the aircraft is a dust cover. "Fundamentals of Aircraft and Airship Design, Volume 1: Aircraft Design" emphasizes that the science and art of the aircraft design process is a compromise and that there is no right answer; however, there is always a best answer based on existing requirements and available technologies.
Author : Tero Tuovinen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 22,37 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN : 3031611098
Author : Egbert Torenbeek
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 32,44 MB
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1118568095
Although the overall appearance of modern airliners has not changed a lot since the introduction of jetliners in the 1950s, their safety, efficiency and environmental friendliness have improved considerably. Main contributors to this have been gas turbine engine technology, advanced materials, computational aerodynamics, advanced structural analysis and on-board systems. Since aircraft design became a highly multidisciplinary activity, the development of multidisciplinary optimization (MDO) has become a popular new discipline. Despite this, the application of MDO during the conceptual design phase is not yet widespread. Advanced Aircraft Design: Conceptual Design, Analysis and Optimization of Subsonic Civil Airplanes presents a quasi-analytical optimization approach based on a concise set of sizing equations. Objectives are aerodynamic efficiency, mission fuel, empty weight and maximum takeoff weight. Independent design variables studied include design cruise altitude, wing area and span and thrust or power loading. Principal features of integrated concepts such as the blended wing and body and highly non-planar wings are also covered. The quasi-analytical approach enables designers to compare the results of high-fidelity MDO optimization with lower-fidelity methods which need far less computational effort. Another advantage to this approach is that it can provide answers to “what if” questions rapidly and with little computational cost. Key features: Presents a new fundamental vision on conceptual airplane design optimization Provides an overview of advanced technologies for propulsion and reducing aerodynamic drag Offers insight into the derivation of design sensitivity information Emphasizes design based on first principles Considers pros and cons of innovative configurations Reconsiders optimum cruise performance at transonic Mach numbers Advanced Aircraft Design: Conceptual Design, Analysis and Optimization of Subsonic Civil Airplanes advances understanding of the initial optimization of civil airplanes and is a must-have reference for aerospace engineering students, applied researchers, aircraft design engineers and analysts.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 40,70 MB
Release : 1992-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309047323
Prepared at the request of NASA, Aeronautical Technologies for the Twenty-First Century presents steps to help prevent the erosion of U.S. dominance in the global aeronautics market. The book recommends the immediate expansion of research on advanced aircraft that travel at subsonic speeds and research on designs that will meet expected future demands for supersonic and short-haul aircraft, including helicopters, commuter aircraft, "tiltrotor," and other advanced vehicle designs. These recommendations are intended to address the needs of improved aircraft performance, greater capacity to handle passengers and cargo, lower cost and increased convenience of air travel, greater aircraft and air traffic management system safety, and reduced environmental impacts.