Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 31 Issue 12

Strapline:

An International Journal
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Table of contents

Technical Education

THAT Britain has remained in the van of progress in the vast and varied field of aeronautical engineering is a tribute to the endeavour and devotion of the early pioneers and…

Cyclic Stressing Frequency Effect on Fatigue Strength: A Study of Frequency Effect with Particular Reference to the Fatigue Strength of Certain Aluminium Alloys

W.J. Harris

This article concerns the experimental investigations of the effect of frequency of cyclic stressing on the reversed bend fatigue strength of the aluminium alloys 4·4 per cent…

Solution of Modified Linear Simultaneous Equations: An Investigation Associated with the Analysis of Redundant Structures

W.J. Goodey

A PROBLEM arises in the matrix analysis of highly redundant structures, and no doubt often occurs in other engineering and scientific contexts, in which a set of linear…

Effectiveness of Propellers at High Speeds: A Simplified Analysis of the Operation and Effectiveness of Propellers and Helicopter Rotors at Transonic Speeds

Svetopolk Pivko

The operating conditions of a conventional aerofoil type propeller or helicopter rotor in both subsonic and supersonic regions are separately considered, in the absence of direct…

Plastic Buckling of Cylindrical Shells: A Theoretical Analysis and Comparison with Test Data

S. Radhakrishnan

PLASTIC buckling of plates and shells has been worked out by Bijlaard, Ilyushin, Stowell, Handelman and Prager, Gerard and others. Some investigators have assumed deformation type…

Tenth International Astronautical Congress: Summaries of Some of the More Important Papers Given at the Congress Held at Church House, Westminster, August 31‐September 5, 1959

G.V.E. Thompson

The present stage of development of vehicles for space exploration corresponds to some degree to that of the aeroplane in 1905. The programme of the U.S. National Aeronautics and…

The Library Shelf

A.D.Y.

One of the most significant features of post‐war engineering has undoubtedly been the rapid growth of automatic control techniques and their widespread application. The importance…

Research Reports and Memoranda

Under this heading are published regularly abstracts of all Reports and Memoranda of the Aeronautical Research Council, Reports and Technical Memoranda of the United States…

Tools for the Workshop

J. Goulder & Sons Ltd., Kinkheaton, Huddersfield, have introduced a machine for checking the lead of helical gears, both internal and external. The generatin mechanism…

Auxiliary Equipment

Skysorlift is the name of a new hydraulic elevating trolley just produced by Farrow & Jackson Ltd., Prescot Street, E.1. An inclined or horizontal hydraulic ram, lifting heavy…

Month in the Patent Office

An aircraft powered by a gas‐turbine jet‐propulsion engine, the exhaust gases from which are discharged rearwardly through a jet pipe as a propulsive jet stream for normal forward…

U.S. Patent Specifications

In an aeroplane having a wing extending from each side thereof, spanwise extending openings in the upper surfaces of said wings, means in each wing to expel gas at high velocity…

Cover of Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology

ISSN:

0002-2667

Online date, start – end:

1929

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Prof Phil Webb