Accession Number:

ADA370039

Title:

An Investigation of the Compressive Strength Properties of Stainless Steel Sheet-Stringer Combinations. Air Service Information Circular, Volume 7, Number 697.

Descriptive Note:

Final rept.

Corporate Author:

AIR FORCE RESEARCH LAB WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH WRIGHT RESEARCH SITE

Personal Author(s):

• Schwartz, E. H.
• Brown, C. B.

Report Date:

1934-11-30

Pagination or Media Count:

84.0

Abstract:

Historical test whose test data indicates that 1. The strength properties of sheet stringer combinations are governed by the strength properties of the stringer, and only to a minor degree by the sheet to which the stringer is attached, and that the highest structural efficiency from the point of view of carrying compressive loads is attained for a given stiffener by reducing the sking thickness to a minimum. 2. For a sheet-stringer combination the total load carried is a linear function of stiffener units provided, and is independent of the stiffener pitch. 3. The effective width of sheet working with a stiffener at any stiffener stress, up to the stiffener failing stress for a given sheet thickness is determinable by the mathematical expressions provided in the report.

Descriptors:

• *STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES
• *STAINLESS STEEL
• *COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH
• *SHEET METAL
• TEST AND EVALUATION
• STRESSES
• THICKNESS
• EXPERIMENTAL DATA
• STIFFENING
• EFFICIENCY
• STRENGTH(MECHANICS)
• HISTORY
• FUNCTIONS(MATHEMATICS)
• COMPRESSIVE PROPERTIES

Subject Categories:

• Properties of Metals and Alloys

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE