Experimental Studies on Effect of Stiffener Configuration on Compressive Strength of Stiffened Panels

In this present work, comparative analysis of integrated stiffened panels and the flat plate is studied. Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymer integrated stiffened panels using different stiffener configuration like I stiffener, T stiffener, and Blade stiffener and also a flat plate is fabricated. All the panels are fabricated by hand layup method using aluminium moulds. The reinforcement phase used in this work is made of glass fiber and the matrix phase is primarily epoxy resin. Three panels for each stiffener configuration are fabricated, in total 12 panels are tested for compressive strength using Computerized Universal Testing Machine(UTM) and the results obtained are compared for the best stiffener configuration. The compressive strength analysis of integrated stiffened panels with different stiffener configuration has been studied.