Calculation of load distribution in stiffened cylindrical shells
This 1938 NASA technical report on calculating how loads spread through stiffened cylindrical shells, drawn from the NASA Technical Reports Server, was written for aircraft structural engineers. Its pictures are line-drawn graphs of decay curves for bulkhead force distribution, shell cross-section diagrams with stress values, and a schematic of a stiffened cylinder with numbered bulkheads, offering a designer little beyond clean technical linework and labelled axes.
