Accession Number:

AD0829405

Title:

THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL ANALYSES OF THICK SKINNED SWEPT WING PANELS.

Descriptive Note:

Master's thesis,

Corporate Author:

NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA

Personal Author(s):

• Parcells, Paul Whitney

Report Date:

1967-12-01

Pagination or Media Count:

33.0

Abstract:

The validity of conventional skin and stringer type analyses is verified experimentally for a thick milled skin aircraft structure. The accuracy of solution is evaluated by comparing the strain energies in a mathematical model to that obtained experimentally from a wing panel of a high performance aircraft. Results indicate that the conventional methods of a skin-stringermatrix force approach are valid for a thick milled skin aircraft structure of this type provided the panel loading is neither severe nor concentrated. Additionally the grid elements chosen must be small enough to preclude any gross averaging errors. Author

Descriptors:

• *JET FIGHTERS
• *SWEPTBACK WINGS
• AIRCRAFT PANELS
• STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES
• THICKNESS
• SHEAR STRESSES
• STRAIN(MECHANICS)
• MATHEMATICAL MODELS
• FORCE(MECHANICS)
• LOADS(FORCES)
• THESES
• STRAIN GAGES

Subject Categories:

• Attack and Fighter Aircraft

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE