TY  - BOOK
AU  - 
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Aerospace Engineering on the Back of an Envelope
T2  - Springer Praxis Books
SN  - 9783642225376
AV  - TL787-4050.22 
U1  - 629.1 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Berlin, Heidelberg
PB  - Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Imprint: Springer
KW  - Engineering
KW  - Astrophysics
KW  - Engineering design
KW  - Astronautics
KW  - Aerospace Technology and Astronautics
KW  - Engineering Design
KW  - Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences
N1  - Space Shuttle Performance Estimates -- Columbia Shuttle Accident Analysis -- Reentry and Landing of the Orbiter -- Hubble Space Telescope Design -- Solenoid Robot Kicker Design using BotE Techniques; ZDB-2-EES
N2  - Engineers need to acquire ǣBack-of-the-Envelopeǥ 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22537-6
ER  -