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The Effects of Kinetic Heating on Aircraft Structures*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

A. W. Kitchenside*
Affiliation:
formerly Guided Weapons Department, now Aircraft Project Office, Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft) Ltd.

Extract

Kinetic heating, which is associated with supersonic flight, is probably the greatest challenge which has confronted the structural engineer, since the design and analysis of affected structures requires a radical extension of current practice. For example, the laws of heat transfer and the effects of high temperature on structural materials become important factors in structural analysis. To obtain a clear appreciation of the situation it is therefore necessary for the designers of the structure to become familiar with these factors, together with certain aspects of boundary layer theory.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1958

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Footnotes

*

A lecture given to the Graduates' and Students' Section of the Society on 23rd November 1956.

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