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Structure Weight*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

J. Taylor
J. Taylor*
Affiliation:
Structures Department, Royal Aircraft Establishment
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This paper is primarily concerned with structure weight as related to aircraft shape and size, rather than with the saving in structure weight that may be brought about by improved methods of construction. The difference in weight due to differences in methods of construction is a question of structural efficiency, and this will not be discussed here. Structure weight, even when expressed as an overall percentage, is not in itself a measure of structural efficiency. If the depth of an aircraft wing were doubled, without altering the lift distribution on the wing, the bending loads would be unaltered so that the resultant end loads in the top and bottom surfaces would be halved. If the second wing had the same weight as the first the structural efficiency would be less. Conversely, if they both had the same structural efficiency the deeper wing would have the lower structure weight

Type
Research Article
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 57 , Issue 514 , October 1953 , pp. 646 - 652
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1953

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Footnotes

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A Lecture given to the Leicester Branch of the Society on 21st November 1952.

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* A Lecture given to the Leicester Branch of the Society on 21st November 1952.