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Buckling of Longitudinally Stiffened Plates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 June 2016

Thein Wah*
Affiliation:
Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas
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Summary

This paper investigates the effect of the torsional stiffness of the ribs on the buckling strength of stiffened plates compressed in the direction of the ribs. For the case of plates simply-supported on all sides, a closed form formula is derived for calculating the buckling load.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society. 1967

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