Aircraft Materials and Processes is a book that provides the readers with key insights into the materials and processes incorporated in aircraft building.
Summary
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>span cache="font-size:16px;">Titterton has excluded all unimportant details to ensure that the material remains simple to understand. In these lectures as well as the book, Titterton has drawn on the pool of information he obtained while serving as an engineer in the Naval Inspection Service. Therefore, he has included the most recent materials and processes that are a part of aircraft construction. Some of the topics covered in this book include Metal-Joining Processes, Corrosion And Its Prevention, Shaping of Metal, Corrosion-Resisting Steels, Steel and Its Alloys, and Aircraft Steels-Properties and Uses.
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>span cache="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">About Author
George Titterton was an author and engineer.
Titterton was born on 19th August 1904, in New York. He completed his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from New York University in 1925. He then served as an Engineering instructor for a year. He then served as a Consulting Engineer for the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics at Washington, D.C. He held the position of the Senior Vice-President of the Grumman Corporation, till his retirement. Even after retiring, he remained a member of the company’s board of directors for several years. Titterton passed away in 1998, in Farmingdale, New York. He was married to Ada Ryan, and they had seven children together.
