타이틀 |
Elastic-Plastic Nonlinear Response of a Space Shuttle External Tank Stringer Part 1;; Stringer-Feet Imperfections and Assembly |
저자 |
Knight, Norman F., Jr.;; Song, Kyongchan;; Elliott, Kenny B.;; Raju, Ivatury S.;; Warren, Jerry E. |
Keyword |
DEFECTS;; DEFLECTION;; ELASTIC PROPERTIES;; EXTERNAL TANKS;; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;; LIQUID OXYGEN;; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES;; MODULUS OF ELASTICITY;; NONLINEARITY;; PLASTIC PROPERTIES;; ROOM TEMPERATURE;; SIMULATION;; SKIN (STRUCTURAL MEMBER); SPACE SHUTTLES;; STRAIN DISTRIBUTION;; STRINGERS;; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;; THERMAL EXPANSION;; THREE DIMENSIONAL MODELS |
URL |
http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20120008186 |
보고서번호 |
AIAA Paper 2012-1778 |
발행년도 |
2012 |
출처 |
NTRS (NASA Technical Report Server) |
ABSTRACT |
Elastic-plastic, large-deflection nonlinear stress analyses are performed for the external hat-shaped stringers (or stiffeners) on the intertank portion of the Space Shuttle s external tank. These stringers are subjected to assembly strains when the stringers are initially installed on an intertank panel. Four different stringer-feet configurations including the baseline flat-feet, the heels-up, the diving-board, and the toes-up configurations are considered. The assembly procedure is analytically simulated for each of these stringer configurations. The location, size, and amplitude of the strain field associated with the stringer assembly are sensitive to the assumed geometry and assembly procedure. The von Mises stress distributions from these simulations indicate that localized plasticity will develop around the first eight fasteners for each stringer-feet configuration examined. However, only the toes-up configuration resulted in high assembly hoop strains. |