Författare: Deborah F. Pilkey

Walter D. Pilkey is the Frederick Morse Professor in theDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at theUniversity of Virginia and a leading authority in the areas ofstress and strain in mechanical and civil engineering. He is theauthor of Formulas for Stress, Strain, and Structural Matrices, Second Edition and Analysis and Design of Elastic Beams, alsoavailable from Wiley. Deborah F. Pilkey is an Engineer/Scientist in the Loads& Environments Department at ATK Launch Systems in Utah. Shehas been involved with structures technology, loads, dynamics, andproduction stress analysis of the Space Shuttle”s main engines andtheir solid rocket motors.