Structural Designers' View of Criteria Trends

Abstract

Adopting the point of view of the structural designer, available structural criteria are reviewed with respect to the demands for new criteria for a variety of advanced flight-vehicle types. The basic needs of the structural designer are delineated in relation to his specific function of crystallizing the configuration arrangement and element cross-section area details of the structural components. The nature of the criteria required in design of several new types of flight vehicles is outlined. It is shown that a considerable amount of basic structural criteria is applicable to almost all flight vehicles. A new arrangement for structural requirement specifications is advocated.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 27, 1960
Accession Number
ADA286707

Entities

People

  • Robert Goldin

Organizations

  • Bell Aircraft Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Airplanes
  • Design Criteria
  • Engineers
  • Flight
  • Ground Effect
  • Ground Effect Machines
  • Guided Missiles
  • Helicopters
  • Hypersonic Aircraft
  • Intermediate Infrared Radiation
  • Safety Factor
  • Structural Components
  • Supersonic Aircraft
  • Vehicles
  • Watercraft

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Systems Analysis and Design