Abstract
DR. CONWAY has produced a book that should be valuable to both students and designers dealing with aircraft structures, but its title is misleading. It is entirely a work on the theory of structures, its secondary connexion with aircraft baing that those problems that are of most interest in that field have been chosen, and the illustrative examples are such as occur in the peculiar types of structure occurring in aircraft construction. A critic could quarrel with the author for his sins of omission rather than commission, but incompleteness is inevitable in a book of this size. Also the science of the design of aircraft structures is so fluid at present that a selection of methods is bound to be one based on the author's personal experience. This defect is most noticeable in the part devoted to the behaviour of thin plates, which might have been much fuller. Its application to Wagner beams and stressed skin construction can scarcely be avoided to-day in the aircraft world ; even the engine designer is meeting it now in the internal combustion turbine.
Aircraft Strength of Materials
By Dr. H. D. Conway. Pp. viii + 256. (London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1947.) 21s. n¢t.
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Aircraft Strength of Materials. Nature 161, 503 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161503a0
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