The topics discussed in this section deal with transverse shear loading of
unstiffened or thin-walled stiffened beams with CLOSED cross sections.
Such beams are generally referred to as BOX Beams.
The methods of analysis discussed here are relevant to airplane wing, tail,
and fuselage
structures. However, more reference is given to aircraft wing structures
composed of
a single-cell or a multiple-cell closed box beam.
Topics covered:
Restrictions:
The beams are considered to be homogeneous and elastic.
Flexural shear stress, shear flow, shear center of unstiffened and
thin-walled stiffened sections.
Sections 1 through 4 deal with uniform beams whereas sections 5 and 6 deal
primarily with nonuniform and tapered beams in which the cross-sectional moments
of inertia are not constant.
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