The Abbott Company, Indianapolis, 1994. — 128 p. This book helps the reader understand the gyroplane. It explains how a gyroplane works and tells what makes a gyro fly successfully and unsuccessfully. It gives technical knowledge explained in the kind of words that are used every day.
Birkhauser, Boston, 2003. — 279 p. — ISBN 0-8176-4238-2. Since the early 1990s, fuzzy modeling and identification from process data have been and continue to be an evolving subject of interest. Although the application of fuzzy models proved to be effective for the approximation of uncertain nonlinear processes, the data-driven identification of fuzzy models alone sometimes...
Springer, Switzerland, 2021. — 284 p. — ISBN 978-3-030-53005-1. This book commemorates the 60th birthday of Dr. Wim van Horssen, a specialist in nonlinear dynamic and wave processes in solids, fluids and structures. In honor of Dr. Horssen’s contributions to the field, it presents papers discussing topics such as the current problems of the theory of nonlinear dynamic processes...
Woodhead Publishing, Duxford, 2017. — 772 p. — ISBN: 978-0-08-100410-4. Stability and Vibrations of Thin-Walled Composite Structures presents engineering and academic knowledge on the stability (buckling and post buckling) and vibrations of thin walled composite structures like columns, plates, and stringer stiffened plates and shells, which form the basic structures of the...
Butterworth Heinemann, 2001. — 253 p. — ISBN: 0-7506-5133-4. The key developments in modern flight dynamics were founded at the beginning of the 20th century by Russian and German scientists and engineers. These papers are presented in English for the first time, many of which have never been translated. A survey of the basic principles of modern aerodynamics. From antiquity to...
Heidelberg: Springer, 1994. — 174 p. — ISBN13: 978-1-4471-2113-8. Manual flight control system design for fighter aircraft is one of the most demanding problems in automatic control. Fighter aircraft dynamics generally have highly coupled uncertain and nonlinear dynamics. Multivariable control design techniques offer a solution to this problem. Robust Multivariable Flight...
4. Auflage. — Springer, Berlin, 2025. — 786 p. — ISBN 978-3-662-70665-7. Dieses Lehrbuch gibt eine anschauliche Einführung in die Theorie und Anwendung nichtlinearer Systeme und Regelungen. Der Autor stellt die in Forschung und industrieller Anwendung immer wichtiger werdenden Verfahren der nichtlinearen Regelungen vor und erläutert sie. Wesentliche Merkmale des Buches sind die...
Springer, Germany, — 2nd Edition, 2024. — 760 p. — ISBN 978-3-662-68689-8. This textbook provides a clear introduction to the theory and application of nonlinear systems and controls. The author explains the methods of nonlinear control, which are known from control theory research and are becoming increasingly important in industrial applications. The fundamentals of nonlinear...
Wiley, 2014. — 269 p. — ISBN: 978-1-84821-670-9. Since Lord Rayleigh introduced the idea of viscous damping in his classic work "The Theory of Sound" in 1877, it has become standard practice to use this approach in dynamics, covering a wide range of applications from aerospace to civil engineering. However, in the majority of practical cases this approach is adopted more for...
Wiley, 2014. — 363 p. — ISBN: 978-1-84821-521-4. Since Lord Rayleigh introduced the idea of viscous damping in his classic work "The Theory of Sound" in 1877, it has become standard practice to use this approach in dynamics, covering a wide range of applications from aerospace to civil engineering. However, in the majority of practical cases this approach is adopted more for...
Ballistic Missile Series, US Army Materiel Command, Washington DC, 1965. — 99 p. The Engineering Design Handbook Series of the Army Materiel Command is a coordinated series of handbooks containing basic information and fundamental data useful in the design and development of Army materiel and systems. The handbooks are authoritative reference books of practical information and...
Specialised Printing Services Limited, Essex, UK, 1987. — 291 p. — ISBN: 92-835-1560-9 The various aspects of fighter aircraft design have not been the subject of many publications during the short history of aircraft construction. Since the requirements for transport and fighter-type aircraft diverged significantly 50 years ago, the design of military airplanes of any type has...
Springer, Dordrecht, 1999. — 229 p. — ISBN: 978-90-481-5205-6. This textbook deals with optimization of dynamic systems. The motivation for undertaking this task is as follows: There is an ever increasing need to produce more efficient, accurate, and lightweight mechanical and electromechanical de vices. Thus, the typical graduating B.S. and M.S. candidate is required to have...
SAE, Pennsylvania, 2020. — 206 p. — ISBN 978-0-7680-9342-1. Aircraft Thermal Management (ATM)focuses on how to manage heat in an aircraft to meet the temperature requirements for passengers and vehicle. This primarily involves removing heat and protecting equipment, systems, and structure from heat sources that could raise their temperature beyond design limits. Crew and...
Springer, Singapore, 2022. — 182 p. — ISBN 978-981-19-6328-5. The book discusses the method of maintaining constraints on the components of the state vector of a dynamic system. The idea of the method is to analyze such an integral indicator as the distance in metric space to the constraint surface, given in some way. The developed method provides the following: – obtaining...
London; New York: Routledge, 2007. — 620 p. — ISBN: 978-0-582-30807-7. The Ottoman Empire had reached the peak of its power, presenting a very real threat to Western Christendom when in 1683 it suffered its first major defeat, at the Siege of Vienna. Tracing the empire’s conflicts of the next two centuries, The Ottoman Wars: An Empire Besieged examines the social transformation...
Wiley, Hoboken, 2013. — 183 p. — ISBN 978-1-84821-523-8. Reverse Engineering in Control Design proposes practical approaches to building a standard H-infinity problem taking into account an initial controller. Such approaches allow us to mix various control objectives and to initialize procedures for a fixed-structure controller design. They are based on the Observer-Based...
Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Munich/Boston, 2015. — 235 p. — ISBN: 978-3-11-033836-2. Back-action of aerodynamics onto structures such as wings cause vibrations and may resonantly couple to them, thus causing instabilities (flutter) and endangering the whole structure. By careful choices of geometry, materials and damping mechanisms, hazardous effects on wind engines, planes,...
Springer, Switzerland, 2022. — 296 p. — ISBN 978-3-030-95410-9. This textbook explains turbulent flows using an introductory but fundamental approach to teaching the core principles, striking a balance between theoretical and practical aspects of the topic without overwhelming the reader with mathematical detail. It is aimed at students in various engineering...
Springer, New York, 2022. — 1426 p. — ISBN 978-1-4614-4546-3. The SEM Handbook of Experimental Structural Dynamics stands as a comprehensive overview and reference for its subject, applicable to workers in research, product design and manufacture, and practice. The Handbook is devoted primarily to the areas of structural mechanics served by the Society for Experimental...
Wiley, New York, 1985. — 507 p. — ISBN 0-471-88839-7. This text provides students who have had statics and introductory strength of materials with the necessary tools to perform stress analysis on aerospace structures such as wings, tails, fuselages, and space frames. It progresses from introductory continuum mechanics through strength of materials of thin-walled structures to...
Wiley, Hoboken, 2016. — 287 p. — ISBN-13: 978-1118909379. Presents a self-contained introduction to continuum mechanics that illustrates how many of the important partial differential equations of applied mathematics arise from continuum modeling principles Written as an accessible introduction, Continuum Mechanics: The Birthplace of Mathematical Models provides a comprehensive...
Springer, Switzerland, 2020. — 284 p. — ISBN: 978-3-030-25531-2. This book reviews the most common state-of-the art methods for substructuring and model reduction and presents a framework that encompasses most method, highlighting their similarities and differences. For example, popular methods such as Component Mode Synthesis, Hurty/Craig-Bampton, and the Rubin methods, which...
Wiley, Chichester, 2009. — 501 p. — ISBN: 978-0-470-75436-8. Principles of Flight Simulation is a comprehensive guide to flight simulator design, covering the modeling, algorithms and software which underpin flight simulation. The book covers the mathematical modeling and software which underpin flight simulation. The detailed equations of motion used to model aircraft dynamics...
London: Hurst and Company, 2017. — 297 p. — ISBN: 9781849046978 Born in Margilan, Central Asia on the eve of the Russian Revolution of 1917, Ruzi Nazar had one of the most exciting lives of the twentieth century. Charming, intellectually brilliant and passionately committed to the liberation of Central Asia from Russian rule, his life was a series of adventures and narrow...
Springer, Switzerland, 2022. — 326 p. — ISBN 978-3-030-87184-0. This book presents the various approaches in establishment the basic equations of one- and two-dimensional structural elements. In addition, the boundaries of validity of the theories and the estimation of errors in approximate theories are given. Many contributions contain not only new theories, but also new...
Springer, Switzerland, 2022. — 357 p. — ISBN 978-3-030-97674-3. This book presents various questions of continuum mechanical modeling in the context of experimental and numerical methods, in particular, multi-field problems that go beyond the standard models of continuum mechanics. In addition, it discusses dynamic problems and practical solutions in the field of numerical...
New York: Springer, 2018. — 380 p. — ISBN: 978-981-10-6764-8. This book presents selected papers presented at the 8th International Conference "Design, Modeling and Experiments of Advanced Structures and Systems" (DeMEASS VIII, held in Moscow, Russia in May 2017) and reflects the modern state of sciences in this field.The contributions contain topics like Piezoelectric,...
Springer, Switzerland, 2020. — 504 p. — ISBN 978-3-030-47490-4. This book commemorates the 75th birthday of Prof. George Jaiani – Georgia’s leading expert on shell theory. He is also well known outside Georgia for his individual approach to shell theory research and as an organizer of meetings, conferences and schools in the field. The collection of papers presented includes...
Springer, Switzerland, 2023. — 384 p. — ISBN 978-3-031-18563-2. This book presents fundamental theoretical and experimental studies of well-known scientists in solid mechanics, hydromechanics, aeromechanics, biomechanics, etc. These studies relate to contact and mixed problems of the theory of elasticity and viscoelasticity, tribology, fracture mechanics, electroelasticity,...
Springer, Switzerland, 2024. — 150 p. — ISBN 978-3-031-73163-1. This book provides a unifying approach to the study of statistical laws, critically evaluating their role in the theoretical understanding of complex systems and the different data-analysis methods used to evaluate them. Statistical laws describe regular patterns observed in diverse scientific domains, ranging from...
2nd Edition. — CRC Press, Boca Raton, 2025. — 460 p. — ISBN 978-1-032-76646-1. This second edition of Impact Engineering covers the dynamic analysis of structures undergoing small to large displacements, linear and nonlinear elastic material behavior to viscoplasticity, and the range of features of structural impact analysis. Individuals, as well as various governing bodies are...
Birkhauser, Boston, 2006. — 691 p. — ISBN-10 0-8176-4236-6. This textbook – a result of the author’s many years of research and teaching – brings together diverse concepts of the versatile tool of multibody dynamics, combining the efforts of many researchers in the field of mechanics.
Springer, Switzerland, 2023. — 276 p. — ISBN 978-3-031-36334-4. This volume presents a timely overview of control theory and inverse problems, and highlights recent advances in these active research areas. The chapters are based on talks given at the spring school "Control & Inverse Problems” held in Monastir, Tunisia in May 2022. In addition to providing a snapshot of these...
Springer, New York, 2010. — 659 p. — ISBN 978-1-4419-6378-9. Computational Methods in Elasticity and Plasticity: Solids and Porous Media presents the latest developments in the area of elastic and elasto-plastic finite element modeling of solids, porous media and pressure-dependent materials and structures. The book covers the following topics in depth: the mathematical...
3rd Edition. — AIAA, Reston, 2019. — 897 p. — ISBN 9781624105142. Hypersonic and High-Temperature Gas Dynamics, Third Edition is a successful, self-contained text for those interested in learning hypersonic flow and high-temperature gas dynamics. Like previous editions, it assumes no prior familiarity with either subject on the part of the reader. It provides a cohesive...
AIAA, Reston, 2002. — 382 p. — ISBN-13: 978-1563475252. Commissioned in celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Powered Flight. The airplane is a system comprising aspects of aerodynamics, propulsion, flight dynamics, and structures. This book outlines the history of the technical development of the airplane. Richly illustrated, it moves the reader through time beginning with...
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2018. — 309 p. — ISBN-13: 978-0521817875. John D. Anderson, Jr is an icon in the science and technology of aeronautics, and equally revered for his knowledge of the history of aeronautics, aircraft design, and the people who pioneered these fields. He combines this deep knowledge with the most accessible writing style of any author I have...
7th Edition. — McGraw-Hill, New York, 2024. —1169 p. — ISBN 978-1-266-07644-2. This book follows in the same tradition as the previous editions: it is for students—to be read, understood, and enjoyed. It is consciously written in a clear, informal, and direct style to talk to the reader and gain their immediate interest in the challenging and yet beautiful discipline of...
Artech House, Norwood, 1989. — 632 p. — ISBN 0-89006-351-6. This book is the companion book of reference to the first volume. The book delivers an up-to-date review of key areas in modern optics with tutorial chapters that provide information on such topics as: coherent optical fiber systems, free space optical communications, atmospheric against guided wave optical...
New York: Dover Books, 1987. — 870 p. — ISBN 0-486-65508-3. Theory of Oscillators presents the applications and exposition of the qualitative theory of differential equations. This book discusses the idea of a discontinuous transition in a dynamic process. Organized into 11 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the simplest type of oscillatory system in which the...
Antonov V., Gordon Y., Gordyukov N., Yakovlev V., Zenkin V., Carruth L., Miller J. Midland Publishing, Leicester, UK, 1996. — 298 p. — ISBN 9781857800128, 1857800125 The famous Russian soviet aircraft design bureau is thoroughly documented in this book, which has been prepared with the cooperation of the Sukhoi bureau and with extensive access to their records and photo files....
AIAA, Reston, 1998. — 328 p. — ISBN 1-56347-282-1. The authors have been intimately involved in the acquisition and development of the advanced tactical fighter (ATF) programme from its inception through today. This book traces the history of the ATF programme and the evolution of the ATF requirements from the beginning of the programme through the start of the engineering and...
Springer, Switzerland, 2019. — 196 p. — ISBN 978-3-030-02259-4. Optimal Impulsive Control explores the class of impulsive dynamic optimization problems—problems that stem from the fact that many conventional optimal control problems do not have a solution in the classical setting—which is highly relevant with regard to engineering applications. The absence of a classical...
Dover Publications, New York, 1974. — 437 p. — e-ISBN13: 978-0-486-16653-7. This classic by a Stanford University educator and a pioneer of aerospace engineering introduces the complex process of designing atmospheric flight vehicles. An exploration of virtually every important subject in the fields of subsonic, transonic, supersonic, and hypersonic aerodynamics and dynamics,...
AIAA, Virginia, 1997. — 354 p. — ISBN 1-56347-221-X. Designed for aerospace engineering students, government employees responsible for certifying military and civilian aircraft, and individuals involved in aircraft accident investigation and consulting, An Introduction to Aircraft Performance provides a comprehensive and useful approach to aircraft performance issues. In...
AIAA, Reston, Virginia. — 1037 p. — ISBN: 978-1-62410-592-0. Operational Aircraft Performance and Flight Test Practices is intended to serve as a single source reference, from the basic theory to practical cases, for certification flight testing and operational performance monitoring. It provides more real-life examples than are offered in traditional textbooks. To this end,...
Springer, Berlin, 2008. — 485 p. — ISBN 978-3-540-74357-6. This book is a tribute to Prof. Alberto Isidori on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Prof. Isidori’s prolific, pioneering and high-impact research activity has spanned over 35 years. Throughout his career, Prof. Isidori has developed ground-breaking results, has initiated research directions and has contributed towards...
London: I.B. Tauris, 2004. — 293 p. — ISBN: 1-86064-426-0. The authors trace the emergence of Atatürk and Reza Shah through the constitutional revolutions in Iran and the Ottoman Empire, which led to the introduction of European social models, the establishment of dictatorship and of secularist reforms. This produced in both Turkey and Iran highly authoritarian, nationalist,...
Wiley, Chichester, 2016. — 728 p. — ISBN 978-1-118-86645-0. An unmanned aircraft system (UAS), sometimes called a drone, is an aircraft without a human pilot on board. The UAS can be controlled by an operator station on the ground or may be autonomous in operation. UAS are capable of addressing a broad range of applications in diverse, complex environments. Traditionally...