Stability of rectangular plates with longitudinal or transverse stiffeners under uniform compression
This NASA technical report from 1939, issued through the NASA Technical Reports Server, presents engineering analysis of how thin rectangular plates buckle under uniform compression when stiffened by longitudinal or transverse members. Its pictures are dense technical line graphs of buckling stress coefficients plotted against plate aspect ratio, with small schematic sketches of stiffened plates and bending-mode diagrams; a designer might take from them the clean graph styling and the stepped curve forms of structural analysis.
