The assessment of wrinkling and large deformation post-wrinkling of metallic shell structures

Localized buckles can occur in crashes when compressive stresses are dominant. However, due to their local appearance, they might be overlooked by a finite element analysis, meaning that local failure due to buckling will not be predicted. Methods to analytically assess the onset of such buckles are readily available. However, an off-the-shelf...

Investigation into the weight saving potential of multi-spar torsion-bending boxes

This thesis continues the work performed by Ferreira and Almeida on the topic of weight and cost reduction of composite multi-spar torsion-bending boxes. The goal is to find the influence of changes to the structural configuration on the resulting weight of said torsion-bending boxes. Using analytical methods, combined into the BoxSolver MATLAB...