Handbook of structural stability
Subtitle: Failure of plates and composite elements
By: George Gerard
Contributors: Becker, Herbert, 1918-; United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
Series: Technical note / National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics -- 3784; Technical note (United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) -- no. 3784.
Publisher: National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
Published: 1957
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 93
ISBN-13: 9781680156294
Subjects: Structural analysis (Engineering); Stability; Plates (Engineering); Columns; Cylinders; Buckling (Mechanics); Loads (Mechanics); Strains and stresses; Théorie des constructions; Stabilité; Plaques (Ingénierie); Cylindres; Flambage (Résistance des matériaux); Charges; Contraintes (Mécanique); Structural analysis; Cylinders (solids); Warping; Buckling; Stress; Strain
Description: Available theories on failure of flat plates are reviewed, and test data on the postbuckling behavior, effective width, and failure of flat curved plates are correlated.

Test data on the crippling strength of various formed and extruded shapes are reviewed, from which a generalized method of crippling analysis is formulated. The effects upon the crippling strength of alclad coatings and the increased properties in the corners of formed sections are investigated by use of this analysis.

The generalized crippling analysis was applied to a variety of sections and materials in common use. It was found that the crippling strength of all the sections is governed in a simple manner by the developed length-thickness ratio and number of corners of the section.
Notes: NACA TN No. 3784.

Includes bibliographical references.