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This section deals with the experimental and numerical stability analysis of thin walled composite structures. Two different types of composite structures are considered. An unstiffened cylinder which is very sensitive to imperfections and used for basic research, and a stringer stiffened panel that is more related to aircraft fuselage structures. Both types of structures are loaded in axial compression. A set of different measurement systems has been applied before and during the tests in order to gather as much information as possible about the structure and its imperfections, as well as about the behaviour under load. Advanced optical measurement systems, for instance, have been utilized to monitor the failure in the skin-stringer interface of the stiffened panels. Exemplary test results are presented and compared to numerical simulations.
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Wilckens, D., Kling, A., Degenhardt, R. (2013). Improved Stability Analysis of Thin Walled Stiffened and Unstiffened Composite Structures: Experiment and Simulation. In: Wiedemann, M., Sinapius, M. (eds) Adaptive, tolerant and efficient composite structures. Research Topics in Aerospace. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29190-6_14
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