Stresses Around Reinforced Elliptical Holes, with Applications to Pressure Cabin Windows

Abstract

An analytical solution, using complex variable methods, is given for the problem of the stress distribution due to an elliptical hole, reinforced around its boundary, in a plane sheet subjected at infinity either to an arbitrary constant stress system or to a bending type stress system. Numerical results were obtained for a wide range of parameters, including three different shapes of ellipse, and ten different amounts of reinforcement. Poisson's ratio was assumed to be 1/3.