skinSegmentType

A skin panel is a part of the skin that has a sheet of its own, e.g. a thicker skin around a door or along the bottom of the fuselage. It is bounded by two frames and two stringers and may span several bays between them; the smallest panel is one bay between neighbouring frames and stringers.

Extent

Along the fuselage, the panel extends from the frame <startFrameUID> to the frame <endFrameUID>. Around the fuselage, it extends from the stringer <startStringerUID> in the direction of increasing <referenceAngle> (stringerFramePositionType) to the stringer <endStringerUID>. The order of the two stringers therefore selects one of the two parts of the circumference between them: from a stringer at 315° to one at 45°, the panel covers the top of the fuselage over 90°; from 45° to 315°, it covers the other 270°.

Barrel of a fuselage between x = 7 and 9.5 m developed into the plane, referenceAngle horizontal and x vertical: six frames at a pitch of 0.5 m, of which the frame at 8 m is interrupted by the cargo door between 210 and 255 degrees, 24 stringers every 15 degrees, of which those at 225 and 240 degrees end at the door, and three skin panels, the crown panel from 315 across 0 to 45 degrees, the keel panel and the door surround; the rest of the skin is the standard sheet

In the barrel of the figure, the crown panel runs from the stringer at 315° across 0° to the stringer at 45°, the keel panel from 135° to 210°, and the door surround from 210° to 270°, between the first and the fifth frame. The example of skinType shows the crown panel.

Without <endStringerUID>, the extent around the fuselage is not yet specified.

Rules

Skin panels do not overlap.
The stringers that bound a panel run along its whole length, and the frames that bound it around its whole width.

Attributes

Name	Type	Use	Description
`@externalDataDirectory`	`xsd:string`	optional	Directory of the external file the element was read from, as URI
`@externalDataNodePath`	`xsd:string`	optional	Path of the parent element in the merged dataset, at which the element was inserted from an external file
`@externalFileName`	`xsd:string`	optional	Name of the external file the element was read from
`@uID`	`xsd:ID`	required	UID

Child elements

Name	Type	OccurrenceHow often the element may appear at this place. The schema writes it as minOccurs and maxOccurs on the declaration.	Description
allThe children below may appear in any order. Each may appear at most once.
`sheetElementUID`	`stringUIDBaseType`	[1..1] required	UID of the sheetBasedStructuralElement of the panel
`startFrameUID`	`stringUIDBaseType`	[1..1] required	UID of the frame at which the panel starts along the fuselage
`endFrameUID`	`stringUIDBaseType`	[1..1] required	UID of the frame at which the panel ends along the fuselage
`startStringerUID`	`stringUIDBaseType`	[1..1] required	UID of the stringer at which the panel starts around the fuselage
`endStringerUID`	`stringUIDBaseType`	[0..1] optional	UID of the stringer at which the panel ends, reached from the start stringer in the direction of increasing referenceAngle

skinSegmentType

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