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“derek n james”

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  • Gloster Aircraft Company

    by Derek N. James ...
    The Gloster Aircraft Company had its foundation in 1917 and in 1934 the company was taken over by Hawker Aircraft, though it continued to produce aircraft under its own name. In that same year the company produced the famous Gladiator biplane. Having no modern designs of its own in production, Gloster undertook manufacture for the parent company Hawker. During the Second World War it built more ... Read more

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  • A History of Aeronautics

    Exploring the Evolution of Flight: An Anthology of Aeronautical Advancements and Historical Milestones

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  • Australia's Little Space Travellers

    The Flight Shaped Tektites of Australia

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  • Computer-aided Nonlinear Control System Design

    Using Describing Function Models

    by Amir Nassirharand ...
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    A systematic computer-aided approach provides a versatile setting for the control engineer to overcome the complications of controller design for highly nonlinear systems. Computer-aided Nonlinear Control System Design provides such an approach based on the use of describing functions. The text deals with a large class of nonlinear systems without restrictions on the system order, the number of ... Read more

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  • Aerospace Materials and Material Technologies

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    Edited by N. Eswara Prasad, R. J. H. Wanhill ...
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  • Innovative Hand Exoskeleton Design for Extravehicular Activities in Space

    by Pierluigi Freni, Eleonora Marina Botta, Luca Randazzo, Paolo Ariano ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
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  • Damage Growth in Aerospace Composites

    Edited by Aniello Riccio ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book presents novel methods for the simulation of damage evolution in aerospace composites that will assist in predicting damage onset and growth and thus foster less conservative designs which realize the promised economic benefits of composite materials. The presented integrated numerical/experimental methodologies are capable of taking into account the presence of damage and its evolution ... Read more

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  • Adaptive, tolerant and efficient composite structures

    Edited by Martin Wiedemann, Michael Sinapius ...
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    Composite structures are most efficient in performance and production cost when combined with smart materials making them adaptable to changing operational conditions.The specific production processes of composites offer the possibility to integrate more functions thus making the structure more valuable. Active functions can be realized by smart materials, e.g. morphing, active vibration control, ... Read more

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  • Airplane Stability and Control

    A History of the Technologies that Made Aviation Possible

    by Malcolm J. Abzug, E. Eugene Larrabee ...
    Series Book 14 - Cambridge Aerospace Series
    From the early machines to today's sophisticated aircraft, stability and control have always been crucial considerations. In this second edition, Abzug and Larrabee again forge through the history of aviation technologies to present an informal history of the personalities and the events, the art and the science of airplane stability and control. The book includes never-before-available ... Read more

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