Aircraft Design Digital Library
Volume 1. Structures, Materials, and Fasteners

The Aircraft Design Digital Library is a series of CD-ROMs containing collections of reports and documents on various subjects relating to aircraft design.  This series is an essential addition to any professional or amateur aircraft designer's library and provides immediate access to essential design data and information.  

The first volume in this series, Structures, Materials, and Fasteners, covers the structural aspects of aircraft design.  This CD-ROM includes over 150 technical reports and documents that provide information on aircraft structural design, aerospace material properties, and appropriate methods for fastening or joining various structural materials.   Included in the collection are comprehensive material properties data on the vast majority of all metal alloys, composite materials, and wood varieties.  These reports have been gathered from NASA, NACA (the predecessor to NASA, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics), and the US Department of Defense.  

Selected Contents

The table below includes a small selection from the over 150 documents included on the CD.  The CD includes well over 5,000 pages of information.  Click on the document titles below to view an abstract.

Price

The Structures, Materials and Fasteners CD-ROM is available as part of our AirplanePDQ Design Suite through our online store. 

Availability

The current edition of the Structures, Materials and Fasteners CD-ROM is our July 2006 release and it is available now.

Software Requirements

The CD-ROM is formatted for Windows-based systems, but the contents are platform neutral.  The CD-ROM can be used on any system that can view HTML and Adobe PDF files.  Windows 95/98/ME/NT 4/2000/XP/Vista are all supported.