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TESTS OF A STRESS- CARRYING DOOE IN SHEAR

By Robert Gottlieb

Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory

Langley Field, Va.

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TESTS or A 3TRESS-CARRYI::G BOOR IN SHEAR

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3y Robert Gottlieb
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A monoc OQue box with a stress-carrying door was

made ani teste.-, in iors 1 on. •he details of this box
and the location of the applied toro^ues are shown in
figure 1. Outside and inside views of the strees-
carryin<^ door are shown in figure 2.

The results of the torsion tests are presented in

figures 3, 4, and 5, In figure 3 are plotted torque-
twist curves for the case of cut-out, cut-out v/ith door,
and no cut-out. These curves show that a large part of
the torsional stiffness lost by making a cut-out can be
recovered by use of a stress-carrying door. This fact
is more clearly revealed in figure 4 where the slopes
of the curves in figure 3, which define the torsional
stiffness, are plotted against the applied torque. The
ratio b/a in this figure is .? measure of the effective-
ness of the door in recovering the torsional stiffness
lost v/hen the cut-out v;as made. This effectiveness va.ries
with the ,'ipplicd torque, as shown in figure 5,

If a stress-carrying door ani its frt-^ne are made

sufficiently heavy, the torsional stiffness of the box
with the door can be made greater than the torsional
stiffness of the box without the cut-out. In the speci-
men of firure 1, tnc stress-carrying door was made '.'ith
the same gage of skin as v/as used in the box and with
stiffeners of less depth than the stiffeners in the box.
The smaller stiffentjrs in the door v/ere used in order
to make the total thickness of the door approximately the
same as the total thickness of the skin and the stiffeners
in the box.

Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory,

National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics,
Langley Field, Va.
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