Analysis of the structural behaviour of stiffened panels subjected to compressive loading conditions

• Autor(a) principal: Ferreira, Inês Oliveira de Vasconcelos
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10773/16557
• topic: Engenharia mecânica; Ligas de alumínio; Encurvadura; Método do elemento finito

Stiffened panels form the basic structural building blocks of airplanes, vessels and other structures with high requirements of strength-to-weight ratio. As a consequence it is crucial to understand the behaviour of these type of panels. Since buckling is the primary mode of failure of stiffened panels, it will be the focus in the present work. In the present work it was carried out several analysis, using the simulation software Abaqus, in order to study the buckling and postbuckling behaviour. Two different panels were tested in this thesis, the first one an aluminium stiffened panel, which its main goal was to understand the methodologies involved in the analysis of the buckling behaviour, and the second one a composite stiffened which its main goal was to find the proper tools to simulate its behaviour. Therefore, two different methods were used, the Riks method was used to analyse the aluminium panel and the Stabilize method to analyse the composite panel. The behaviour of stiffened panels are influenced by several parameters such as, the number and type of elements, the skin-stringer connection, the boundary conditions, the magnitude of imperfections, etc. So in the present work, those parameters were taken into account and its influence will be shown.