NACATN3785

.
Itistobenotedthatminimum-weightpaneldesigns
obtained
byuse
ofthesechartsgenerally
resultinhighbuckl~ stressesoftheskin .
asa resultofverycloselyspaced
stiffeners.Forlargerstiffener
spacings,
without
a resulting
significant
decreaseh structural
effi-
ciency,
theuseofmagnesium-all~skinsinconjunction
withalumimm-
alloystringers
offersantit=esting
possibili~ indesign(ref.
19).

OPTIMWI
STIFFENED
PANELS

Although
itisnotpracticaltoreproduce theentire
herein series
ofdirect-reading
colmncurvesobtatied
bytheNACA,itisconvenient
to summarize
theresults intheformofoptimwn-
ofthisinvestigation
columncurves.Thesecurves
canbe ofconsiderable
valueinpreliminary
designstudies
sndrepresent
theenvelope
ofall.
minimum-weight
stiffened-
paneldesigns
forspecified
structural-loading
psmmeters.
b thissecticm,
opthmm-columncurves
forhat-,Y-,andZ-stiffened
panelssrepresented
intwoforms:Plotsof Fco againstN/Li and
plotsof GCo againstN/ts forspecified
values
of N/Li.Thelatter
formofpresentation
isuseful whendesign
conditions
reqtietieuseof
a minimwn
skinthickness.
Inorderto extend
therestits
oftheoptimum-stiffened-panel
study
tomaterials
withphysical
properties
otherthanthoseinvestigated,
methodsofgeneralizing
theoptinnm
resultsareccmsidered.These
methcds .
arebasedonavailable
theories
forthedesignandanalysisofstiffened
panelsofmhimunweight.
.

Optimum-l?snel
Theories
andResults
Theory
andtestdataintheavailable onopthmmstiffened
literature
p-elshavebeenreviewed
sndconsider~indetail~ ward (ref.26).
Thetheory
ofthedesignofmonolithicstiffened
panelsofminimum
weight
hasbeenconsidered
by Zahorski
(ref.~) andFarrar(ref.
28),andthe
results
oftheseanalyses
canbe summarized
inthefollowing
formula:

(32)

Emu thethemy,thepanelefficiency
coefficient
~ andthe
plasticity-reduction
factorfortheoptimum
penelF axe “

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