Ultimate Strength of Stiffened Plates with Their Stiffeners Locally Buckled in Compression

Buckling strength of uniaxially compressed orthogonally stiffened plates

The bucking strength calculation includes the determination of global buckling strength, the effective plate width and the torsional buckling strength of open section stiffeners. In each calculation the classic strength formula should be modified considering the effect of initial imperfections and residual welding stresses. The calculation method of Det Norske Veritas design rules and the Euroc...

EFFECT OF AXIAL STIFFENERS ON THE IBUCICLING PROPERTIES OF THIN CURVED PLYWOOD PLATES iN AXIAL COMPRESSION

Finite element analysis of stiffened plates

The paper presents the development of a new plate/shell stiffener element and the subsequent application in determine frequencies, mode shapes and buckling loads of different stiffened panels. In structural modelling, the plate and the stiffener are treated as separate finite elements where the displacement compatibility transformation takes into account the torsion – flexural coupling in the s...

Fatigue Strength of Fillet-Welded Transverse Stiffeners with Undercuts

Presently, wrapping of the welds at the ends of stiffeners is not done to avoid the undercutting of the stiffener corners and the attendant weld repair. The fatigue performance of stiffeners with undercuts was evaluated in a factorial design fatigue experiment. Undercuts at the flange edge and filling of the stiffener cope with the fillet weld were also evaluated. The undercuts did not influenc...

Vibration of Thermally Post-buckled Orthotropic Circular Plates

Axisymmetric vibrations of a statically buckled polar orthotropic circular plate due to uniform temperature rise have been studied numerically. Effects of geometric nonlinearities have been incorporated into the problem formulation. The problem is challenging because the buckled configuration is unknown a priori. By assuming that the amplitude of plate’s vibration and the additional strains ind...