5R9. Introduction to Structural Dynamics and Aeroelasticity. - DH Hodges and GA Pierce (Sch of Aerospace Eng, Georgia Inst of Tech, Atlanta GA). Cambridge UP, Cambridge, UK. 2002. 170 pp. ISBN 0-521-80698-4. $55.00.
Reviewed by MA Cutchins (Dept of Aerospace Eng, Auburn Univ, 211 Aerospace Eng Bldg, Auburn AL 36849-5338).
This textbook would be excellent for its targeted audience—“to provide an introduction to the field of structural dynamics and aeroelasticity (SD & A),…a semester-length, senior-level, undergraduate course or a first-year graduate course in which the emphasis is placed on conventional aircraft.” There is sufficient material for a separate course on aeroelasticity alone. The figures are excellent.
This reviewer really likes the quote from da Vinci as the subheading of Chapter 2, “O students, study mathematics, and do not build without foundations.” The book then proceeds with the subject at hand using differential equations, partial differential equations, various principles such as...
