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  • Polymer Composites in the Aerospace Industry

    Edited by P. E. Irving, C. Soutis ...
    Series series Woodhead Publishing Series in Composites Science and Engineering
    Polymer Composites in the Aerospace Industry, Second Edition, summarizes the latest research and developments on the design, manufacture and performance of composite components for aerospace structures. Sections cover the modeling, structure and behavior of 2D and 3D woven composites, the manufacture processes used for composite materials and components, buckling and compressive strength of ... Read more

    $296.99 USD

  • Polymer Composites in the Aerospace Industry

    Edited by Costas Soutis, P. E. Irving ...
    Polymer composites are increasingly used in aerospace applications due to properties such as strength and durability compared to weight. Edited by two leading authorities in the field, this book summarises key recent research on design, manufacture and performance of composite components for aerospace structures. Part one reviews the design and manufacture of different types of composite component ... Read more

    $238.99 USD

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  • Flight to St Antony: An aviation mystery

    by Blackman, Tony ...
    Series series A Peter Talbert Aviation Mystery
    Flight to St Antony is a modern accurate aviation mystery/thriller where the detective Peter Talbert, an aviation insurance expert, is instrumental in solving the reason why an airliner with over two hundred people on board is forced to ditch at night in the Caribbean near the island of St Antony. There are only a few survivors, all from the rear of the aircraft and they were saved through the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Right Kind of Crazy

    A True Story of Teamwork, Leadership, and High-Stakes Innovation

    by Adam Steltzner, William Patrick ...
    From Adam Steltzner, who led the Entry, Descent, and Landing team in landing the Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars, comes a profound book about breakthrough innovation in the face of the impossibleThe Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is home to some of history’s most jaw-dropping feats of engineering. When NASA needed to land Curiosity—a 2,000-pound, $2.5 billion rover—on the surface of Mars, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Ball, a Dog, and a Monkey

    1957 - The Space Race Begins

    by Michael D'Antonio ...
    A Ball, a Dog, and a Monkey tells the remarkable story of America's first efforts to succeed in space, a time of exploding rockets, national space mania, Florida boomtowns, and interservice rivalries so fierce that President Dwight Eisenhower had to referee them.When the Soviet Union launched the first orbital satellite, Sputnik I, Americans panicked. The Soviets had nuclear weapons, the Cold War ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Air Power

    The Men, Machines, and Ideas That Revolutionized War, from Kitty Hawk to Iraq

    by Stephen Budiansky ...
    No single human invention has transformed war more than the airplane—not even the atomic bomb. Even before the Wright Brothers’ first flight, predictions abounded of the devastating and terrible consequences this new invention would have as an engine of war. Soaring over the battlefield, the airplane became an unstoppable force that left no spot on earth safe from attack. Drawing on combat memoirs ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Advanced Aircraft Design

    Conceptual Design, Analysis and Optimization of Subsonic Civil Airplanes

    by Egbert Torenbeek, Peter Belobaba, Jonathan Cooper, Roy Langton, Allan Seabridge ...
    Series series Aerospace Series
    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 ... Read more

    $107.00 USD

  • Advanced Aircraft Flight Performance

    by Antonio Filippone ...
    Series Book 34 - Cambridge Aerospace Series
    This book discusses aircraft flight performance, focusing on commercial aircraft but also considering examples of high-performance military aircraft. The framework is a multidisciplinary engineering analysis, fully supported by flight simulation, with software validation at several levels. The book covers topics such as geometrical configurations, configuration aerodynamics and determination of ... Read more

    $124.99 USD

  • Introduction to Nanofiber Materials

    by Frank K. Ko, Yuqin Wan ...
    Presenting the latest coverage of the fundamentals and applications of nanofibrous materials and their structures for graduate students and researchers, this book bridges the communication gap between fiber technologists and materials scientists and engineers. Featuring intensive coverage of electroactive, bioactive and structural nanofibers, it provides a comprehensive collection of processing ... Read more

    $119.99 USD

  • Design of Adhesive Joints Under Humid Conditions

    Edited by Lucas F. M. da Silva, Chiaki Sato ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    This book describes most recent advances and limitations concerning design of adhesive joints under humid conditions and discusses future trends. It presents new approaches to predict the failure load after exposure to load, temperature and humidity over a long period of time. With the rapid increase in numerical computing power there have been attempts to formalize the different environmental ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Spacecraft Operations

    Edited by Thomas Uhlig, Florian Sellmaier, Michael Schmidhuber ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    The book describes the basic concepts of spaceflight operations, for both, human and unmanned missions. The basic subsystems of a space vehicle are explained in dedicated chapters, the relationship of spacecraft design and the very unique space environment are laid out. Flight dynamics are taught as well as ground segment requirements. Mission operations are divided into preparation including ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The Hubble Space Telescope

    From Concept to Success

    by David J. Shayler, David M. Harland ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    The highly successful Hubble Space Telescope was meant to change our view and understanding of the universe. Within weeks of its launch in 1990, however, the space community was shocked to find out that the primary mirror of the telescope was flawed. It was only the skills of scientists and engineers on the ground and the daring talents of astronauts sent to service the telescope in December 1993 ... Read more

    $44.99 USD