The weight of a simply supported transversely stiffened compression panel subjected to a given buckling load is investigated as a function of the stiffener spacing, plate thickness, and the geometry of the stiffener cross section.nIt is shown that there are particular combinations of stiffener spacing and plate thickness, dependent upon the geometrical properties of the stiffener cross section, for which the panel weight is a minimum. Charts are presented to facilitate the determination of these optimum values of stiffener spacing and plate thickness.
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