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Aircraft Structures Gate Aerospace Forum A For More Info Refer Correspondence
Aircraft Structures Gate Aerospace Forum A For More Info Refer Correspondence
Second Edition
Ashish Garg
(M.E. IISc, Bangalore)
GATE Aerospace Forum Educational Services
© 2015 by Author
This book is manufactured in India and is authorized for sale only by GATE Aerospace Forum
Educational Services.
My Grandparents
(whose blessings and love have always been with me)
Scientists
(who work throughout their lives in contributing theories to mankind worth applying,
feeling, reading and writing again and again)
My Students
(who have been my teachers and suggested me to start the project)
This book is an attempt to explain fundamental laws of Solid Mechnics, Structure Dynamics,
and Vibrations theory in a simple language as well as to create a compendium of the concepts
of Aircraft Structures. It has been principally designed and documented keeping in mind the
course structure and understanding level of students majoring Aeronautical or Aerospace
Engineering in India. This book will definitely complement their specialist reading of
Aircraft Structures.
I would like to express my deepest gratitude towards Prof. Ranjan Ganguli, Prof. Dinesh
Kumar Harursampath and Prof. H.S.N. Murthy for teaching me Structures during my
masters at IISc. I would like to thank IISc, Bangalore, TIFR-CAM and Sathyabama
University for providing me an excellent working environment, as well as to my seniors
who have been a constant source of inspiration and support for me.
I express sincere and heartfelt thanks to my students Sonakshi Shyam Arora, Ravi Shakya,
Pranav Jindal, Abhay Gupta, Abhinav Sharma and Sandeep Tripathi for helping me in
preparing this edition.
Thank you Sakshi and Smriti for the cover page design for this edition.
I would express my deepest gratitude for my parents and other family members for their
whole-hearted affection, inspiration, constant encouragement and support.
Last but not the least, I am very much thankful to some of the greatest prodigies in the field
of Aerospace, Shri J.R.D. Tata (Founder - IISc), Dr. Satish Dawan (Father of Experimental
Fluid Dynamics), Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam (Former President of India), Kalpana Chawla
(Indian Astronaut - NASA), Prof. Roddam Narasimha (Director of JNCASR) for being an
unmatched inspiration for thousands of scholars like me in Aerospace Engineering