Methods and formulas for calculating the strength of plate and shell constructions as used in airplane design
This is a 1936 NASA technical report, compiled from the NACA-era literature, giving methods and formulas for the strength of plate and shell structures in aircraft design. Its pictures are engineering line drawings: a tapering plate girder with labelled stresses and loads, and a graph of stress against position beside a circular cylinder fitted with stringers and frames. A designer might take from them the clean diagrammatic style of technical line art and the use of simple labelled schematics to explain structural load paths.
