Tests of Aluminum-Alloy Stiffened Sheet Specimens Cut from An Airplane Wing

Abstract

Specimens utilized in the tests were different from the laboratory type since the stiffeners were not parallel or evenly spaced and, in one case, the skin consisted of sheets of different thicknesses. Buckling strain of stiffened curved sheet can be computed from the data obtained from the test results. Rivet spacing equal to 98 times the sheet thickness was a source of weakness while spacing up to 36 times the sheet thickness appeared satisfactory.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1943
Accession Number
ADB814088

Entities

People

  • Marshall Holt

Organizations

  • Alcoa

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aeronautics
  • Aircrafts
  • Airplanes
  • Alloys
  • Aluminum
  • Aluminum Alloys
  • Buckling
  • Buildings And Structures
  • Curvature
  • Equations
  • Language
  • Materials
  • New York
  • Stress Analysis
  • Stresses
  • Thickness

Readers

  • Aerodynamics/Aeronautics.
  • Structural Dynamics.

Technology Areas

  • Space