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Systems engineering for commercial aircraft : a domain-specific adaptation / Scott Jackson

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Farnham Burlington Ashgate Publishing Company, 2015Edition: 2nd EdDescription: xxvi, 288 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781472439215 (hardback : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • TL671.2
Contents:
Contents: Preface; Introduction; Commercial aircraft; Functional analysis; Requirements and needs; Constraints and specialty requirements; Interfaces; Synthesis; Top-level synthesis; Subsystem synthesis; Certification, safety, and software; Verification and validation; Systems engineering management and control; Adapting systems engineering to the commercial aircraft domain; Large-scale system integration; Risk management; Resilience of the aircraft system; Final comments; Appendices; Bibliography; Glossary; Index.
Summary: The key principle of systems engineering is that an aircraft should be considered as a whole and not as a collection of parts. This book emphasizes that system engineering is not an added layer of processes on top of the existing design processes; it is the glue that holds all the other processes together.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Core Collection Main Library Core Collection TL671.2 JAC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 149611 Available BK135619
Book Book Main Library Open Shelf TL671.2 JAC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 149612 Available BK135622
Book Book Zvishavane Library Open Shelf TL671.2 JAC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 149610 Available BK135604

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Preface; Introduction; Commercial aircraft; Functional analysis; Requirements and needs; Constraints and specialty requirements; Interfaces; Synthesis; Top-level synthesis; Subsystem synthesis; Certification, safety, and software; Verification and validation; Systems engineering management and control; Adapting systems engineering to the commercial aircraft domain; Large-scale system integration; Risk management; Resilience of the aircraft system; Final comments; Appendices; Bibliography; Glossary; Index.

The key principle of systems engineering is that an aircraft should be considered as a whole and not as a collection of parts. This book emphasizes that system engineering is not an added layer of processes on top of the existing design processes; it is the glue that holds all the other processes together.

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