Airframe Structural Design: Practical Design Information and Data on Aircraft Structures

By Michael C. Niu and Mike Niu

This book represents several decades of data collection, research, conversations with different airframe specialists, plus the author's more than twenty years' experience in airframe structural... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 962712804X
• ISBN13: 9789627128045
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Technical Book Co
• Length: 612 Pages
• Weight: 3.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 8.5" x 1.3"

Customer Reviews

Excellent reference for airframe design.

This book is essential for the student of airframe design, and nearly essential for an airframe design engineer or stress engineer in industry. The reason it is only 'nearly essential' for the latter is because 50% of your fellow structures engineers probably have the book, and 20% have it on the shelf above their cubicle on any particular day. So you could always just borrow theirs. Narrow and wide-body transport category aircraft are used as most of the examples in the book, but the majority of the design data can be applied to smaller commercial and GA aircraft. The design of combat aircraft is not addressed with as much depth, but most of the information is still useful. Note that this is not a structural analysis textbook, but a design reference. Don't buy this book if you're looking for something that will teach you analysis of stiffened panels. Niu focuses on detail design. For conceptual and preliminary design, Raymer's Aircraft Design is good. For the engineering student, be aware that it could be a while before you find yourself presenting in a preliminary design review, so don't pass up on a practical detail design reference.

Niu, Airframe Structural Design, 2nd Ed. - Review

Micahael Niu has filled a void that has existed since E.F. Bruhn last published his book thirty years ago. I recommend all of Niu's books, and this one is no exception. It is full of design details and recommendations that are difficult if not impossible to obtain without extensive experience in many companies. It is a book to be studied, however, not simply glanced at. The practicing designer should do well to periodically re-visit this book before undertaking a new assignment. Unlike his other books on stress analysis, this is a design reference only, with few examples of calculations that provide further insight into the reasons for the design recommendations provided. It is thus a complementary book, and a good addition to any aircraft reference library.

Good book for aerospace engineers

This book is really well done, it has everything you ever wanted to know about sizing an airplane... it has helped me in my Airframe Structure class + project.One thing though: beware that there are many errors (typos and calculations) in the book.