Abstract:The fuselage and wing structure of civil aircraft are typical stiffened panel structure. When bearing compressive load, the combined cross section of skin and stiffener should be considered, which usually are medium long columns. In engineering analysis, 30 times of skin thickness is often taken as the skin effective width, which is conservative. This paper introduces Von Karman analysis method, finite element analysis method and common engineering analysis method. In the calculation of axial compression capacity of stiffened panel structures, the effective skin width is a key design factor, which is very important to the improve the efficiency and weight control of aircraft fuselage and wing. With the improvement of the processing capacity, although parts of the stiffened panel structures are gradually transferred from the combination type to the integral machine process type, the method described in the paper still has some reference significance. This paper studies the commonly used engineering analysis methods at home and abroad and verifies the engineering analysis methods with finite element analysis.