Civil Engineer Expert

Michael Niu has once again produced a very reasonable book. This book is destined to become a standard reference and will complement the other classic in the industry very well (Bruhn’s Analysis and Design of Flight Vehicle Structures).

Airframe Stress Analysis and Sizing

The book covers just about most topics required to perform effective practical stress analysis. Again as with Bruhn this is a bit of a cookbook, but in many instances that’s what is required to design practical aerospace structures.
Some of the material is a repeat of what’s available in Bruhn; however, there is plenty of additional material which makes this book worth having.

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Steel and Composite Structures: Analysis and Design for Fire Safety

Steel and Composite Structures: Behaviour and Design for Fire Safety presents a systematic and thorough description of the behaviour of steel and composite structures in fire, and shows how design methods are developed to quantify our understanding.

Analysis and Design for Fire Safety

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