Experimental Bending Strength of an Atlas LV-3C Booster Beyond Compressive Skin Wrinkling

Download or read book Experimental Bending Strength of an Atlas LV-3C Booster Beyond Compressive Skin Wrinkling written by Robert P. Miller and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three bending-strength tests were performed at Lewis Research Center, on a full-scale Atlas LV-3C booster to determine the bending strength available after the start of compressive wrinkling of the vehicle tank skin. Experimental data are compared with analytical predictions and show a good correlation. A description of these tests, The test results, and a method of analytically evaluating postwrinkling bending of thin-walled pressure-stabilized cylinders are presented.