Panels & stiffened shells — combined-load panel analysis with stiffener interaction.
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.
Buckling, crippling & damage tolerance of stiffened panels.
Sandwich panel core shear and facesheet wrinkling checks.
Buckling of sheet between fasteners as a short column: buckling stress, plasticity cut-off, margin and largest pitch.
Deflection and maximum bending stress of a rectangular plate under uniform pressure with simply supported or clamped edges.
Face stress, core shear, deflection with shear deformation and wrinkling for a simply supported sandwich beam or panel strip.
Unidirectional lamina stiffness from fiber and matrix properties and fiber fraction, simple and Halpin-Tsai estimates.
Shear buckling coefficient, critical stress and margin for a flat rectangular web with simply supported or clamped edges.
Effective width and carried load of a thin compression plate loaded past its buckling stress.
Face wrinkling and intracell dimpling stresses of a sandwich panel in compression, with margin.
Split of an axial load between the skin and stringers of a stiffened panel.
Web buckling stress, diagonal tension factor and equivalent web stress for a stiffened shear web.
Ply stress rotation and Tsai-Hill failure index.
Center deflection of a round plate under a point load.