Preliminary Investigation of the Relation of the Compressive Strength of Sheet-Stiffener Panels to the Diameter of Rivet Used for Attaching Stiffeners to Sheet

Abstract

Compressive tests were made of 24S-T aluminum-alloy sheet-stiffener panels, which had five ratios of stiffener thickness to sheet thickness. For each ratio the rivets used to attach the stiffeners to the sheets had five (except in one case, four) different diameters. The tests showed that for the panels of this investigation, which failed by local buckling at average stresses greater than 35,000 psi, the compressive strengths increased with an increase in the diameter of the rivets for the rivet spacings used until the ratio of rivet diameter to over-all thickness (sheet plus stiffener) reached approximately 1.25.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1944
Accession Number
ADA801305

Entities

People

  • Norris F. Dow
  • William A. Hickman

Organizations

  • Langley Research Center

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Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aeronautical Laboratories
  • Aeronautics
  • Aircrafts
  • Alloys
  • Aluminum
  • Aluminum Alloys
  • Buckling
  • Compressive Strength
  • Diameters
  • Riveted Joints
  • Rivets
  • Stress Analysis
  • Stresses
  • Tensile Properties
  • Tensile Strength
  • Thickness

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  • Metallurgy
  • Structural Dynamics.

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