The Analysis of Fuselages of Arbitrary Cross‐section and Taper: A DSIR Sponsored Research Programme on the Development and Application of the Matrix Force Method and the Digital Computer

Abstract

The series of illustrations to the elimination procedures is concluded with two examples in which the various techniques are again examined critically. The first application considers the important problem of a major cut‐out in a fuselage, extending over a number of panels and bays, and including the attached ring segments. Here the dismembering process appears in its straightforward simplicity and generality a particularly effective choice. The final example investigates the removal of a major substructure from a system in the form of an ‘open’ or ‘closed chain’ of substructures. The discussion on cut‐outs is rounded off with a synopsis of the techniques used and a description of the automatic programme for checking an elimination scheme for any hidden singularities.

Citation

Argyris, J.H. and Kelsey, S. (1961), "The Analysis of Fuselages of Arbitrary Cross‐section and Taper: A DSIR Sponsored Research Programme on the Development and Application of the Matrix Force Method and the Digital Computer", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 33 No. 7, pp. 193-200. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb033431