Minimum-Weight Design of Stiffened Cylinders under Axial Compression

A procedure is outlined by which one may design a stiffened circular cylindrical shell under a given uniform axial compression with minimum weight By judicious choice of the objective function and proper grouping of the parameters involved, the solution is accomplished by separation into 2 phases: the "optimization" phase and the "design" phase. The "optimization" phase yields design charts, which are then used in the "design" phase to arrive at the minimum weight configuration. A critical review of previous investigations and a comparison with their resulting configurations are presented. The stiffener geometry used in this comparison is rectangular, because it represents the only configuration which has been dealt with to some degree of success in the past.

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