A methodology to investigate the influence of the fillet radius on the buckling of integrally stiffened panels

Abstract The use of integrally stiffened panels (ISP's) in wings of small and medium-sized aircraft is frequent in aviation. These thin-walled structures are often subjected to compressive loads during their life-time and, although the finite element method has become an important tool for engineers to obtain the buckling load of structural members, some results based in charts published by NACA are still used in the preliminary stages of the wing design in many aircraft companies. However, these charts used for calculation of the critical compressive stress consider only idealized stiffened p...