The Future Of Aerospace

Download or read book Structures Technology for Future Aerospace Systems written by Ahmed Khairy Noor and published by AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics). This book was released on 2000 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new volume, edited by the director of the University of Virginia's Center for Advanced Computational Technology at NASA Langley Research Center, focuses on the component technologies that will play a major role in structures technology for future aerospace systems. Contributors use case histories to demonstrate the technology's development and carry it through to the current state of the art. Each chapter describes current capabilities, deficiencies, and barriers; current research activities; future directions of development; and applicability of the technology in the future--both near and far term.