Title: Shear flexibility for structures

Abstract: This device comprises a flexible sheet member having cross convolutions oriented 45.degree. to the shear vector with spherical reliefs at the convolution junctions. The spherical reliefs are essential to the shear flexibility by interrupting the principal stress lines that act along the ridges of the convolutions. The spherical reliefs provide convolutions in both directions in the plane of the cross-convolution ridges.

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Inventors: Stangeland, Maynard L. (Calabasas, CA, US)

Application Number: 652594
Filing Date: 1976-01-26
Publication_date: 1977-08-23
Assignee: Rockwell International Corporation (El Segundo, CA)
Primary Class(es): 428/167 60/799, 428/34.1, 428/179, 428/604
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US Patent Ref:

3224621

Dec, 1965

Upthegrove

220/9.

Other Refs:
Primary Examiner: Lesmes, George F.
Assistant Examiner: Thibodeau, P.
Attorney: Humphries; L. Lee, Upton; Robert G.