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This book can be divided in two major parts: the first is all about basic concepts for structural mechanics, where statics and stress analysis are introduced together with bending, torsion and transverse shear for thin-walled structures, general energy methods and numerical methods including the finite element method; the second part includes the major innovative contributions of this book, which are the structural idealisation for the modelling of aircraft structures, the buckling and spar theory, shell element analysis and the modelling with composite materials. The Matlab scripts provided in the book can be summarised as follows: 1. a full Matlab code for the modelling of the transverse shear flow and bending of idealised aircraft structures; 2. Matlab functions for different finite elements, including struts, a plane stress triangular element, a 3D brick element with full integration, a shell element with full integration and a 3D solid-shell element with reduced integration; 3. Matlab scripts for the modelling of the buckling of plates and shells; 4. Matlab functions integrated with the finite elements presented for the modelling of composite structures. This book was designed for a wide target audience, which can include undergraduate and post-graduate students for mechanical, civil and aerospace engineering, but it is also targeted for the industry working on the design and production of components and/or machines made of lightweight or skinned structures.

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I am Rui P.R. Cardoso, Senior Lecturer in Aerospace Engineering at the Brunel University London, UK. I finished my undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering in 1995 at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Portugal, and I completed my PhD in 2002 on the development of reduced integrated shell elements for the numerical simulation of sheet metal forming processes. I started my academic career in 1998 at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, teaching different modules, including mechanics of solids, applied mechanics, structural mechanics and the finite element method. In early 2012 I moved to the UK, to the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK, where I started lecturing on aerospace related courses. The modules I started lecturing on Aerospace Engineering were aero structures, mechanics of materials, structural integrity in design, aeroelasticity and the finite element method in analysis and design. In early 2016 I moved to Brunel University London, UK, for lecturing in Aerospace Engineering. The modules I am currently teaching at Brunel are the introduction to solid body mechanics, principles of aircraft design and aircraft structures. I published more than 80 research papers in international journals with peer-review and in international conferences.

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