Engineering Sciences Data Unit ESDU

Data and design methods for wind loading are given in the Engineering Sciences Data Unit (ESDU) Wind Engineering Series (www.ihsedsu.com). 

The Engineering Sciences Data Unit (ESDU) was set up to provide authenticated data for engineering design. Its publications include some physical property data, and other design data and methods of interest to chemical engineering designers. They also cover data and methods of use in the mechanical design of equipment. 

The effectiveness-NTU method will not be covered in this book, as it is more useful for rating than design. The method is covered in books by Incropera and Dewitt (1996), Ozisik (1985) and Hewitt et al. (1994). The method is also covered in the Engineering Sciences Data Unit, ESDU 86018 (1986). This reference gives large clear plots of effectiveness versus NTU and is recommend for accurate work. 

The Engineering Sciences Data Unit (ESDU, www.ihsesdu.com) was set up to provide validated data for engineering design, developed under the guidance and approval of engineers from industry, the universities, and research laboratories. ESDU data include equipment design data and software and extensive high-quality physical property data—mostly for pure fluids that are in use in the oil and process industries. 

Engineering Sciences Data Unit (ESDU), Estimation of the stiffnesses and properties of laminated flat plates, Item No. 83035, VI, 1989. 

The Engineering Sciences Data Unit (ESDU) [41] offers a classification system which uses the ABD stiffness matrices with an extended subscript notation to describe their form, i.e. subscripts 0 if all elements are zero, F if all elements are not zero (finite), S if the matrix has the specially orthotropic form and, additionally proposed by York [42], I if it has the isotropic form. Accordingly it is quite easy to describe the ABD stiffness matrix for the following ... 

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