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Optimum Height of Plate Stiffener Under Pressure Effect
Optimum Height of Plate Stiffener Under Pressure Effect
3, 2008 pp 459-468
Introduction
Typical stiffened sheet structures are metal
sheets reinforced by stiffeners and are widely
used in airframes, wings of aircraft, ship
plating includes deck and side plating and
chemical industry structures for their light
weight and high strength and stiffness [1].
These applications are need for stiffened
structural elements , to avoid using of thick
plates that produce high weight for these
The stress on plate which have stiffeners will stresses, strains, and displacements as for solid
be as eq.(2) : bodies using the general equations of three-
dimensional elasticity.
1 E.p 2 .Wp 2 A1 2 2. The second group refers to plates with
3
2
.3
2 3tp A1 tp ratios Wp/tp (80 to100) . These plates are
referred to membranes and they are devoid of
Equations (1) and (2) yield good results if the flexural rigidity. Membranes carry the lateral
ratio of the sides length is 1:4 or even 1:3, but loads by axial tensile forces (and shear forces)
when the plate is square they will be acting in the plate middle surface . These
inapplicable . forces are called membrane forces; they
produce projection on a vertical axis and thus
balance a lateral load applied to the plate-
Fig. 1: Side view of the model Fig. 2: Bottom view of the model
y
z
1000
Plate thickness :
Stress generated in plate-
900
stiffener system due to
800
pressure in (MPa)
700
Stiffener thickness :
600 Plate
500
400
300
200
100
0
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110
Fig. 6 : Effect of plate dimensions on stress generated in a square plate having one stiffener and
clamped along its 4 edges loaded by pressure
300
Plate dimensions :
Stress generated in plate-
stiffener system due to
Plate
200
100
0
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110
Fig. 7: Effect of plate thickness on stress generated in a square plate having one stiffener and clamped
along its 4 edges loaded by pressure
in (MPa) Stiffener
200
100
0
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110
Stiffener height in (mm)
Fig. 8: Effect of stiffener thickness on stress generated in a square plate having one stiffener and
clamped along its 4 edges loaded by pressure
450
Plate dimensions :
400 P=
Stress on plate due to pressure
350
300
250
Allowable
200
150
MPa
100
50
0
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
Fig. 9 : Square plates clamped along its 4 edges stiffened by one stiffener loaded by uniform pressure
Plate dimensions :
350
200
150
100
50
0
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
30
Plate
MPa)
25
-
20
15
Critical p
10
0
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
ANSYS