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Aerospace Structures and Materials:
Postscript on Crippling
Dr. Tom Dragone
Orbital Sciences Corporation
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Buckling / Crippling Interaction
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Short Column• Cross Section Critical• Crippling Applies
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Buckling / Crippling Interaction
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Buckling / Crippling Interaction
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“Johnson-Euler Curves”
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Aerospace Structures and Materials:
Compression Panel Design
Dr. Tom Dragone
Orbital Sciences Corporation
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Compression Panel Design
• Stability Equation is Analogous to Euler Buckling:
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K depends on • End Conditions (Hinged vs Clamped vs Free)• Geometry (a/b)• Load Type (Compression vs Shear)
depends on material plasticity
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End Effects
COLUMN2 Sides Restrained
FLANGE3 Sides Restrained
PANEL4 Sides Restrained
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Geometry Effects
LOW ASPECT RATIOSingle Buckling Wave
HIGH ASPECT RATIOMultiple Buckling Waves
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Loading Effects
COMPRESSIONSymmetricBuckling Waves
SHEARSkewedBuckling Waves
“BENDING”OffsetBuckling Waves
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Flat Panel Compression Buckling
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• High Aspect Ratio– Lower bucking stress
From Fig 11.3.1
Clamped
Pinned
Free• Less Restraint
– Lower buckling stress
– Clamp->Hinge->Free
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Plasticity Effects
• Buckling Resisted by Bending Stress
• Yielding Limits Bending Stress and Reduces Buckling Resistance
• Peak Panel Stress is Much Higher than Average Stress
• Local Yielding Occurs Even if Average Stress < Yield Stress
• True Buckling Stress < Elastic Buckling Stress
• Accounted for by • is Different for Comp vs Shear
• is Depends on Material
Plastic Buckling Stress
Elastic Buckling StressFrom Equation
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Flat Panel Shear Buckling
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From Fig 11.3.5
From Fig 11.2.5
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Curved Panel Compression
• Curvature Helps Resist Buckling
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Flat Plate Highly Curved Panel
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Local Buckling
• Instability of the Free Segments of Stringers, Frames, Longerons, Beams, Columns
• Can Be Predicted by Treating the Segment as a Long Panel (a/b>>1) with a Single Free Edge
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Combined Loading
• Implication:– Cannot use typical margin calculation
– Must use graphical method (or numerical)
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Linear: Rc + Rs = 1
Actual: Rc2 + Rs = 1
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Combined Shear / Compression
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Skin-Stringer Panels
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Skin-Stringer Panels
Skin Stringer
Flange
Web
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Skin-Stringer Panels
So far, we have treated skin-stringer panels as independent elements
• Skin Buckling Between Stringers => Panel with Hinged Ends• Stringer Column Buckling => Euler Buckling• Stringer Flange Buckling => Local Long Panel Buckling• Stringer Crippling => Crippling Failure
There are other failure modes to consider
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Combined Panel Failure Modes
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Skin-Stringer Panel Design
• Proper Design of Skin-Stringer Panels Can Increase Buckling Strength
No Stringers
ActualBuckling Stress
Hinged PanelBuckling Stress
Lateral / Torsional InstabilityStiff Stringer / Thin Skin
Skin Bucklingwith Clamped Ends
Mode Change
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IsoGrid Panels
• Skin-Stringer Panels – Very Weight Efficient
– Resist Loads in One Direction Only
– Weak in Transverse Direction
• Sandwich Panels– Bidirectional Strength/Stiffness
– Interior Cannot Be Inspected
• Isogrid Construction– Isotropic In-Plane Strength and Stiffness
– Can Be Easily Inspected
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ISS Node 3 Isogrid Construction
International Space Station Module
NODE
RIB
SKIN
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Isogrid Panel Examples
Rib
Flange
Skin
Section Through Panel Grid
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IsoGrid Geometry
• Nodes are Convenient Hard Points for Attachments
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