“…A comprehensive review of the early experimental studies of buckling and postbuckling behaviour of laminated composite plates with cut-outs was given in Nemeth (1996). Subsequently, the influence of stiffeners on the behaviours of damaged and undamaged plates was experimentally studied in Greenhalgh et al (1996), Greenhalgh, Singh, Hughes, and Roberts (1999), Jegley (1992Jegley ( , 1998, Kong, Lee, Kim, and Hong (1998) and Stevens, Ricci, and Davies (1995). The postbuckling compressive strength of undamaged panels with I-stiffeners was reported to be 5e7 times higher than the buckling load for the same plate (Kong et al, 1998).…”