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Minimum Weight Design of Thin–walled Cells in Torsion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

V. Cadambe  and
S. Krishnan
V. Cadambe
Affiliation:
National Physical Laboratory of India
S. Krishnan
Affiliation:
National Physical Laboratory of India
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The minimum weight approach to structural design was introduced by F. R. Shanley with reference to narrow and wide columns and shells subjected to bending, and was later dealt with more comprehensively in a book by the same author. This was further extended to structures like tapered round thin-walled columns and frames. In this paper expressions giving optimum sectional dimensions for long thin walled cells of circular, semi–circular, rectangular and triangular shapes and uniform wall thickness have been derived. The design criteria used to obtain the minimum necessary conditions are (1) failure by local buckling and (2) a limit on the twisting deformation of the cells. Working curves from which the optimum sectional dimensions can be read for given torque and limiting twist have been plotted. And finally, a method of approach to the problem of combined bending and torsion has also been indicated.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 59 , Issue 530 , February 1955 , pp. 120 - 126
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1955

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