Practical Stress Analysis for Design Engineers: Design & Analysis of Aerospace Vehicle Structures

Whether you just entered industry as a Stress Analyst or Designer, or whether you've been in the field for a few years, I can't stress how useful this book really is. It reinforces everything you should know about the basics of analyzing Aerospace structures, with a really clear and well paced guide. I strongly encourage anyone out there trying to improve their knowledge and basic understanding of structures to READ this book throughoughly!! Unlike it's "counterparts" - Niu and Bruhn, this has really detailed explanations on how the practical problems of real life can be translated and simplified into the problems you got so used to doing in school. Don't miss out!

This book is one of the best aerospace structure book in my bookshelf. I'm really glad that my professor introduce it to me. The author explained very clear the subject along with great examples. Must have it if you want to dig deep in aerospace structure.

The best structural analysis book i have never found. Very practical and full of example. Just dynamic analysis is missing, but within the static analysis frame, you don't need to know anything more than what is included in this book.

Excellent teaching book for recent engineering graduates wanting to learn to be stress analyst in the aerospace industry.

I purchased an used copy of Flabel via Amazon. The book arrived in the condition it was advertised and promptly.This book is really fantastic. One of the few aero structural design books which teaches the tricks to reduce real world structures to concepts learnt at school.The explanations of concepts are adequate and there are enough worked examples to illustrate different concepts. I wish there were further explanations on load paths especially in the latter chapters (8 & 9). Also a chapter treating statically indeterminate structures would have been a nice addition as well as other topics such as Torsion.The book is comprehensive enough to cover most loading types on structures and their responses as well as the associated calculations needed to establish MS. The procedures presented are the ones commonly used in Aero industry. Most of the structures illustrations represent the real world ones fairly accurately and understandably are reduced by omitting to create clarity. This provides good confidence to recognize them when dealing with a full blown engineering blueprint.I strongly recommend this book to beginning engineers and practicing engineers who want to understand the physics of structures at any stage of their career. I also urge folks to get a good understanding of this book before proceeding to advanced books like Bruhn or Niu. Aircraft Structures by Perry is an excellent compliment to Flabel.Lastly I request Mr. Flabel to write a similar book on fatigue and damage tolerance practices in aerospace industries.

It's definitely a very good manual... each topic is explained in easy and complete way... I used this book a lot of times and sometimes I still search info in it :)

Good basic book for A/C structures, but its missing some very important topics such as torsion. Many better books that cover many more topics, such as A/C Structures by Perry (1950).Whats very nice is the diagrams of the problems. Unlike many books they are not overly simplified and may give confidence in tackling real structures.Could be a good beginners book for A/C structures

Good, no nonsense, practical guide for stress analysis on aircraft structures. I recommend this after reading Gordon's Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down.

Got this book recommended from a uni course. Amazing read, really simple text and easy to understand.

I am a grad stress engineer and this book has help a lot, it goes directly to the subject that you need to know with practical examples, goes go in to deep, but for that you've got other text books like Bruhn, niu and Roark.

Fantastic service. Recommended

Excellent !

Practical Stress Analysis for Design Engineers is about Detailing: joints, beam restraints, rivet and bolted joints etc.Good book if you are new to the industry and want to learn about this aspect, but although the various shortcomings of various designs are discussed, a simple stress analysis is not given, which to my mind is a shortcoming. The book is not about Aircraft Structures, i.e. fuselage, wing, empennage structural design. I bought the book thinking it was; an extension and simplification of the classical books on Aircraft Structures. If you want to find out about this, buy Aircraft Structures by Peery, and if you can afford it Flight Vehicle Structures by Bruhn.