Aerospace Engineering on the Back of an Envelope

Irwin E. Alber (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XXII, 326 Seiten

2014
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
9783642438714 (ISBN)

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Engineers need to acquire "Back-of-the-Envelope" survival skills to obtain rough quantitative answers to real-world problems, particularly when working on projects with enormous complexity and very limited resources. In the case studies treated in this book, we show step-by-step examples of the physical arguments and the resulting calculations obtained using the quick-fire method. We also demonstrate the estimation improvements that can be obtained through the use of more detailed physics-based Back-of-the-Envelope engineering models. These different methods are used to obtain the solutions to a number of design and performance estimation problems arising from two of the most complex real-world engineering projects: the Space Shuttle and the Hubble Space Telescope satellite.

Space Shuttle Performance Estimates.- Columbia Shuttle Accident Analysis.- Reentry and Landing of the Orbiter.- Hubble Space Telescope Design.- Solenoid Robot Kicker Design using BotE Techniques.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	17.4.2014
Reihe/Serie	Springer Praxis Books
Zusatzinfo	XXII, 326 p.
Verlagsort	Berlin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	168 x 240 mm
Gewicht	591 g
Themenwelt	Technik ► Luft- / Raumfahrttechnik
Schlagworte	Bote • Columbia Shuttle Accident • Hubble space telescope • Solenoid Robot Kicker • Space Shuttle Performance
ISBN-13	9783642438714 / 9783642438714
Zustand	Neuware