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Section 3 / panels and stiffened shells

Panels and Stiffened Shells

Compression, shear, bending, pressure, combined loading, local instability, and stiffener interaction — the checks that govern skin-stringer and sandwich panel structure.

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Buckling of sheet between fasteners as a short column: buckling stress, plasticity cut-off, margin and largest pitch.

A sheet strip buckling between two fasteners.
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Deflection and maximum bending stress of a rectangular plate under uniform pressure with simply supported or clamped edges.

A rectangular plate bending under pressure.
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Face stress, core shear, deflection with shear deformation and wrinkling for a simply supported sandwich beam or panel strip.

A sandwich beam with two faces and a core.
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Unidirectional lamina stiffness from fiber and matrix properties and fiber fraction, simple and Halpin-Tsai estimates.

Fibers in a matrix.
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Shear buckling coefficient, critical stress and margin for a flat rectangular web with simply supported or clamped edges.

A rectangular web panel in shear.
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Effective width and carried load of a thin compression plate loaded past its buckling stress.

A buckled plate with edge strips carrying load.
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Split of an axial load between the skin and stringers of a stiffened panel.

A skin and stringer panel under an axial load.
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Web buckling stress, diagonal tension factor and equivalent web stress for a stiffened shear web.

A shear web with diagonal tension wrinkles between stiffeners.
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