Vertically integrated stringers

摘要

Apparatus and methods provide for the reinforcement of various components of an aircraft utilizing vertically-oriented circumferential stringers. According to embodiments described herein, barrel skin of an aircraft fuselage may be reinforced using stringers that are vertically-oriented and circumferential. According to additional embodiments, the wing stringers of a wing can be aligned with circumferential stringers. According to further embodiments, the wing may also have one or more wing spars having an elliptical aperture. The shape of the elliptical may be configured for attachment to a fuselage so that an outer surface of the aperture is disposed proximate to an inner surface of the fuselage.

主权项

1. An aircraft, comprising:
a fuselage comprising:
a plurality of circumferential corrugated stringers having a continuous, corrugated pattern with a series of sequential and contiguous ridges and valleys, the ridges coupled to an inside surface of a fuselage skin and disposed substantially normal to a first axis;the fuselage skin extending longitudinally along the first axis; andat least one beam disposed generally parallel to the first axis; and a wing comprising:
a wing skin having an inside surface, a first end adjacent to the fuselage and a second end distal to the first end extending from the first end to the second end along a generally linear second axis; anda plurality of wing stringers coupled to the inside surface of the wing skin and disposed generally parallel to the second axis within the valleys of the plurality of circumferential corrugated stringers.