Curved Stiffeners
- Last UpdatedDec 08, 2025
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Stiffeners which are not straight must be generated as curved stiffeners. Curved flanges which are not mounted at 90 degrees to the plate surface must also be generated as curved stiffeners.
There are three main options for definition of the trace curve of stiffeners:
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The stiffener is set parallel to a limit of the panel at a given distance.
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The stiffener is set parallel to a hole of the panel at a given distance.
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The stiffener is set along a given curve, optionally at a given distance from it.
The statement for generation of curved stiffeners have a large part common with the "normal" stiffener statement.
Syntax:
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corresponds to all the clauses in sup-chapter 1 above except the clause defining, the position and end point coordinates. |
In general curved stiffeners should always be given a user defined TAG, because otherwise they might get automatically set tag numbers which may create problem in references to other stiffeners with the same tag number.