Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 26 Issue 9
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An International JournalTable of contents
Aero‐Elastic Problems
THE subject of aero‐elasticity, and in particular flutter, which is its largest and most complex branch, is one which the non‐specialist approaches with trepidation. Today…
Current Development of Aircraft Production Processes: A Comprehensive Survey of the Developments of Recent Years and Techniques Likely to Become Important in the Future
J.V. ConnollyA CRITICAL stage in the process of making aircraft occurs with alarming frequency in the history of aviation.
Some Remarks on the Structural Analysis of Swept Wings: A Brief Account of a Method in which Swept Wings are Treated as Orthotropic Sandwich Plates
E. TernerThe problem of stress analysis of swept wings has been approached in different ways. Here a method is briefly surveyed in which swept structures are treated as orthotropic…
Modern Aircraft Cable Developments: A Survey of Electrical Cables Developed to Meet the Operating Conditions of Modern Aircraft
D.C. Hancock, T. TunnicliffIN consequence of the rapid progress in aircraft development in the past decade it has been necessary for cable manufacturers to provide an ever‐widening variety of cables to meet…
Thermo‐Elastic Similarity: A Further Contribution to the Bristol Conference on Thermal Stress Organized by the Institute of Physics
A.J. SobeyMODEL practice is sufficiently established in scientific investigations for the recommendation of its use in thermal stress analysis to be almost unnecessary. However, some of the…
The Strength of Tubular Struts: Charts for the Graphical Solution of a Common Design Problem
R. PrizemanCurves have been drawn to show the compressive (flexural instability) strength of tubes made from four materials in common use. Although these curves are subject to all the…
Developments in the Structural Approach to Aero‐Elastic Problems: The Spoken Version of the Lecture Read before the Royal Aeronautical Society on February 11, 1954, and Published with Full Mathematical Development in the Journal for June 1954
D. WilliamsTHE main theme of this lecture is the revolution which the high speed digital computing machine is bringing about in the attitude of engineers to structural calculations, and…
Research on Creep and Fracture at High Temperatures: A Report on the Conference held at the National Physical Laboratory, from May 31 to June 1, 1954
A.G. ThomsonIN 1946, a short conference on creep in metals was held at the initiative of the National Physical Laboratory. The aircraft gas turbine was then relatively new. It had been…
Industrial Electronics Convention: Brief Summaries of some of the Papers Presented to the Convention on Industrial Electronics Organized by the British Institution of Radio Engineers and Held at Oxford on July 8–12, 1954
AMONG the industries represented were aircraft, motor, rubber, iron and steel, oil, glass, instrument manufacturers, the film industry and electricity supply. Countries sending…
Research Reports and Memoranda
Under this heading are published regularly abstracts of all Reports and Memoranda of the Aeronautical Research Council, Reports and Technical Memoranda of the United States…
Investment Casting Practice: An Illustrated Description of Current Methods of Precision Casting Production
THE photographs reproduced on this and the following page show some of the main stages in the production of precision castings by the lost wax process, as carried out at the new…
Tools for the Workshop
This new form generator (FIG. 1) is based on the well‐known Pee‐Wce No. 3 thread rolling generator, by agreement with Pee‐Wee Maschinen. However, a number of modifications are…
Auxiliary Equipment
A rotary joint for hydraulic fluid lines has been developed by Dunlop's aviation division.
Month in the Patent Office
In a levered suspension undercarriage unit the lever‐arm carrying the landing wheel 15 has fork portions 13, 14, and the shock absorber 33 is mounted offset from the hub 12 and…
U.S. Patent Specifications
An air braking system for an aeroplane comprising a coned fairing extending rearwardly from a trailing edge of said aeroplane, said fairing rearwardly terminating in a truncation…
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0002-2667Online date, start – end:
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- Prof Phil Webb