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...
I used MSC/PAL back in the old days (1990s) and recently stumbled onto my old collection of model files. Some would be pretty useful to me right now, if I could find a copy of these applications...
Does anyone have an old copy of MSC/Pal or LapFEA that they would be willing to part with...