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NMM m 3785 29

. %?= (33)

(%)

Fromequation
(33),itcanbe observed
thatincreases
instructural
efficiency
areobtained
whentheradiusofgyrationp islarge,the
stiff
enerspacm bs issmall, and tO/% a~roachesuni@,which
implies
relatively
thickskins.l?arrsr
(ref.28)hasactuslly
chrried
theanalysis
uptothepointwhere~ hasbeenevaluated formono-
lithic psnels.Hisresults,
hat-,Y-,andZ-stiffened infact,are
within
8 percent
ofthevalues obtain~frcmtheNACAexperimental
pro-
grsmonminhnum-weight
rivetedpanels.
Theresults
oftheNACAinvestigation
areshowninfigure20,for
optimum
z-,hat-,andY-stiffened
panels.Thedatausedtoconstruct
thesecharts
wereobtained
fra thereferences
listedintable7.
Ihfigure 20,thestraight-line
portions
ofthedatawereextra-
polatedtorepresenta hypothetical
elastic
material.Itissignificant
thattheslopeofthislineonthelogarithmic plotinallcasesis
almostexactlyone-halfofthatpredicted
bythetheoryofequation(32).
Thisisremarkableinviewofthefactthatthislinerepresenlmthe
envelopeofa largesetofempiricalcurves
obtainedbyvarying
the
stiff
ened-panelgecmetry.
~ appropriately
accounting
forthemodulus
ofelasticity
ofthe
panelmaterials,
theexperimental
values
oftheriveted-panel
efficiency
coefficients
givenintable8 weredetermined.
Alsoshownarethetheo-
reticalvalues
ofFarrar(r&.28)formonolithicpanels.
Recently,Catchpole
(ref.29)investigated
theoptinnzn
design
of
stiff
end panelshavingunflanged
integral.
stiffeners.
Thetheoretical
panelefficiency
coeffickntforthis$asewasfoundtobe ~ = 0.81.
Thecross-sectional
proportions
oftheoptimun
configuration
are
bps = 0.65 - t#O = 2.25.Thereisnopublished
qertiental
substantiation
oftheseresults.

Specified SkinThickness
Ihcertain
design
cases,itisnecessary
thatthestiff
e.ned
panel
satisfy
a skin-thickness
requirement
h addition
tocarrying
a canpressive

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