Buckling limit of spruce longerons for homebuilt aircraft
Buckling limit of spruce longerons for homebuilt aircraft
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Hi Eng-Tippers,
When designing a homebuilt aircraft fuselage with 1/2" square spruce (wood) longerons that can see compressive loading, what criteria should be used for buckling limit? I'm working on designing my own aircraft, and I have searched Bruhn's 'Analysis and Design of Flight Vehicle Structures' with no luck...
Thanks in advance
Jeff
When designing a homebuilt aircraft fuselage with 1/2" square spruce (wood) longerons that can see compressive loading, what criteria should be used for buckling limit? I'm working on designing my own aircraft, and I have searched Bruhn's 'Analysis and Design of Flight Vehicle Structures' with no luck...
Thanks in advance
Jeff





RE: Buckling limit of spruce longerons for homebuilt aircraft
RE: Buckling limit of spruce longerons for homebuilt aircraft
i'm guessing you don't have an E (for euler).
try some old texts, maybe NACA, for properties of wood.
sigh ... a quick google "strength of spruce" yielded some interesting hits, like http://www.sportair.org/articles/aircraft%20wood%2... and MIL-SPEC 6073 and http://www.woodbin.com/ref/wood/strength_table.htm. a quote from the sportair site "The primary source of information for the builder may be obtained from FAA Advisory Circular 43-13, government bulletin ANC-19, and from a copy of Mil-Spec-6073."
sorry, but i expect people should do the basic stuff before asking us.
RE: Buckling limit of spruce longerons for homebuilt aircraft
"Mil Spec 6073
Hello Everyone,
I'm new to this forum and thought I'd offer a copy of Mil Spec 6073 (dated 1950) to anyone that wants it. It details Spruce selection for aircraft use. It is a very boring read and is probably well summarized in AC 43.13
I searched this forum to make sure it wasn't already posted somewhere but I may have missed it.
I have it as a Word document and it also includes an Excel spread sheet I think. I don't think this is a copyright infringement or anything since I copied it from a government document. Someone let me know if I'm wrong about this.
If anyone wants it drop me an email at rblassett(at)alltel.net
Russ"
the google also found the mil spec under the eaa site ...
RE: Buckling limit of spruce longerons for homebuilt aircraft
http://quicksearch.dla.mil
RE: Buckling limit of spruce longerons for homebuilt aircraft
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RE: Buckling limit of spruce longerons for homebuilt aircraft
thanks for the help but I already have properties for spruce.
To clarify, what I was hoping to find is what criteria to use to determine buckling stress for wooden columns- is Eulers useful for a non-isotropic material like wood, or do I need to use something else? In commercial building frames, Ive heard the Merchant–Rankine–Wood method applies...
Does the aerospace industry use one of these for wood structure?
Thanks in advance
Jeff
RE: Buckling limit of spruce longerons for homebuilt aircraft
RE: Buckling limit of spruce longerons for homebuilt aircraft
Forum - Technical Discussion Areas - Wood Construction - ANC-18 - Design of Wood Aircraft Structures.
http://www.homebuiltairplanes.com/forums/wood-cons...
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RE: Buckling limit of spruce longerons for homebuilt aircraft
Thankks very much! ANC-18 was exactly what I needed.
Jeff