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Stiffened panels are main structural components that are used in hulls of ships and in particular in double bottom, side shell and upper deck. The strength analysis of stiffened panels that are subjected to uniform pressure loads is accomplished examining both the secondary stresses, that are induced considering the stiffener with the attached plate as a beam, and the tertiary stresses, that are induced considering the bending of the plate between the stiffeners.
The present thesis focuses on the study of the secondary stresses under uniform pressure loads. The Euler-Bernoulli beam theory underestimates the stress field due to the shear lag phenomenon. Both theoretical and numerical models, with finite element analysis, are examined in order to deduce about the safest strategy to examine this phenomenon.
Moreover, the effect of the transverse stiffeners to the secondary stresses of longitudinal stiffeners at cross-stiffened panels is examined. For real ship scantlings, the boundary conditions, which the transverse stiffeners create, are determined. For this reason, a table is provided which relates the type of support, that the transverse stiffeners can be modeled, with other variables of a stiffened panel. |
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