A summary of a NASA design analysis and test program on the buckling of large-scale, integrally-stiffened metallic cylinders is presented. The test article designs were developed based on proposed NASA launch vehicle cylinder designs and span a significant portion of the design space. Various loading conditions were applied to the cylinders and include different combinations of axial compression, bending, and internal pressure loads that simulate typical launch vehicle loading scenarios. The data gathered from this test program is being used to develop and validate new analysis-based knockdown factors and design guidelines for these stiffened metallic cylinders. In this paper, the test article designs and fabrication methods are described along with the test facilities and instrumentation. Selected test and finite element analysis results are presented and compared and are used to illustrate the typical response characteristics of the stiffened metallic cylinders considered. Overall, good qualitative agreement is found, however, several discrepancies in the results were identified across several of the tests. The discrepancies were investigated thoroughly and can be attributed to variations in the as-built skin and stiffener geometry, variations in the measured geometric imperfection, and modeling assumptions associated with the boundary conditions, and loading imperfections. Based on these findings, several refinements were made to the finite element models which significantly improved the correlation between the test and analysis results. These modeling refinements are described and the updated analysis results are presented.


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    Title :

    Test and Analysis of Buckling-Critical Stiffened Metallic Launch Vehicle Cylinders



    Conference:

    AIAA SciTech Forum Meeting 2018 ; 2018 ; Kissimmee, FL, United States


    Publication date :

    2017-12-22


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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