This paper discusses the ultimate strength of composite plate girders with intermediate inclined stiffeners. The inclination angle stiffener, web opening size and span length are key factors influencing performance girder. study used LUSAS software to develop 20 non-linear finite element models using stiffener different angles, sizes lengths. have an 90°, 75°, 60°, 45° 30°. plates were divided ...

A multi-level analysis of skin/stiffener debonding is used to perform the design of fuselage of future aircraft during postbuckling. The “pyramid of test” approach is used both for experimental and numerical analysis (see Fig 1). The analysis begins with nonspecific element (NASA Specimens), then 7 point-bending tests are performed and the approach is finally validated on real panels of an on-g...

Stiffener layout optimization of complex surfaces is fulfilled within the framework topology optimization. A combined parameterization method developed in two aspects. One to parameterize material distribution stiffener by means B-spline. The other build mapping relationship from known 3D surface mesh thin-walled structure its parametric domain parameterization. influence upon discussed reveal ...

A vibration based damage identification method is investigated experimentally. The dynamic response of an intact and a locally damaged 16–layer unidirectional carbon fibre PEKK reinforced plate structure with two stiffener sections is considered. A forced–vibration set–up, including a laser vibrometer system, is employed to measure the dynamic behaviour. The feasibility of the two–dimensional M...

The development of a model-based approach for a damage severity assessment applied on a complex composite skin structure with stiffeners is presented in this paper. Earlier investigations on composite structures with stiffeners revealed that a vibration based structural health monitoring approach, employing the Modal Strain Energy Damage Index (MSE-DI) algorithm can detect and localise delamina...

This paper proposes a novel Lamb wave line sensing technique for crack detection in a welded stiffener. The proposed technique overcomes one of the biggest technical challenges of Lamb wave crack detection for real structure applications: crack-induced Lamb waves are often mixed with multiple reflections from complex waveguides. In particular, crack detection in a welded joint, one of the struc...

this study aimed to investigate the effects of stiffeners on buckling of thin cylindrical shells under uniform axial compression. to this end, more than 300 finite element models of stiffened cylindrical shells were prepared. the variables considered are shell thickness, number, dimension and the location of the vertical and horizontal stiffeners as well as circular symmetrical imperfections. r...

Beam stiffeners have frequently been used for raising natural frequencies of base structures. In stiffener layout optimization problems, most of the previous researches considering the position and/or the length of the stiffener as design variables dealt with structures having just simple convex shapes such as a square or rectangle. The reason was because concave shape structures have difficult...

Finite element analysis was used to investigate the effects of the misalignment of the brace flange-to-beam connection point with the link-end stiffener (referred to as the offset in the paper) on the ductility of eccentrically braced frames (EBF). The offset was speculated to be a possible reason for the unexpected EBF failures observed in the aftermath of the Christchurch earthquake series of...

Abstract In order to study the seismic performance of steel tube bundle composite shear wall with different constructions. Based on failure tests three specimens without end, studs and stiffener, a feasible numerical model is established by ABAQUS. The hysteresis curve energy dissipation coefficient, skeleton ductility were further analyses varying axial compression ratio spacing internal diaph...