The stress distribution in shell bodies and wings as an equilibrium problem
This is a 1937 NACA Technical Memorandum, No. 817, issued by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and distributed through the NASA Technical Reports Server, presenting engineering analysis of stresses in shell bodies and wings for aeronautical designers. Its pictures are line diagrams of shell geometry: cylindrical and box-shaped airplane bodies, stiffened beams with flanges, and shell cross-sections with shear-flow arrows and labeled stress values; the clean hatched and wireframe drawings suggest structural mesh and tubular forms for designers.
