Patent ID: 8484848

Claim:
A method for orbital junction of two structural components, at least one of the two structural components being tube-shaped including a fiber-reinforced composite material having longitudinal stiffeners and including a skin, the skin being connected to the longitudinal stiffeners by co-baking and being connected to at least one peripheral stiffener prior to a junction operation, the method comprising steps of: locally separating the longitudinal stiffeners from the skin, prior to the junction operation, at an end of a junction interface to a first distance less than or equal to an inter-frame distance; and implementing in the skin, located at the junction interface of the at least one of the two structural components, a plurality of slots distributed over a periphery of the junction interface, the plurality of slots extending longitudinally between and in parallel with two longitudinal stiffeners over a second distance less than or equal to the inter-frame distance.