Numerical and Experimental Stress Analysis of Stiffened Cylindrical Composite Shell under Transverse end Load

Grid composite structures have many applications in aerospace industry in which deal with transverse loadings abundantly. In present paper a stiffened composite cylindrical shell with clamped-free boundary condition under transverse end load experimentally and numerically was studied. Some electrical strain gauges were employed to measure the strains. Also a finite element analysis was done for validation of experimental result. The FEM software used was ANSYS11. In addition, the results between stiffened composite shell and unstiffened composite shell were compared. It was observed that intersection of two stiffeners has an important effect in decrease of stress in the shell. Fairly good agreements were observed between the numerical and the measured results. According to recent studies about grid composite structures, it should be noted that any investigation like this research has not been reported.

• J. Arashmehr
• G. H. Rahimi
• S.F.Rasouli

• Grid composite structure
• Transverse loadings
• Strain measurement
• Finite element analysis

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