Wrinkling Phenomena of Thin Flat Plates Subjected to Shear Stresses
A 1931 NACA technical memorandum (No. 601) from the NASA Technical Reports Server, presenting engineering research on how thin flat aircraft-structure plates buckle into wrinkles under shear loading, written for aeronautical engineers and researchers. Its pages carry numbered deflection contour graphs of wrinkle patterns at several shear stress values, plus diagrams of a circular ring and tube in shear and a plate with diagonal wrinkle contours. A designer might take from them the dense, precise line-contour technique and the diagonal wave-field structures that read as abstract textured patterns.
