Aerospace Engineering on the Back of an Envelope electronic resource by Irwin E. Alber.
Material type: TextSeries: Springer Praxis BooksPublication details: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012Description: XXII, 326 p. online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783642225376Subject(s): engineering | Astrophysics | Engineering design | Astronautics | Engineering | Aerospace Technology and Astronautics | Engineering Design | Extraterrestrial Physics, Space SciencesDDC classification: 629.1 LOC classification: TL787-4050.22Online resources: Click here to access onlineSpace Shuttle Performance Estimates -- Columbia Shuttle Accident Analysis -- Reentry and Landing of the Orbiter -- Hubble Space Telescope Design -- Solenoid Robot Kicker Design using BotE Techniques.
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.
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