Questions tagged [pressure-vessel]
Containers that are designed specifically to retain internal pressure or a vacuum
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Circumferential stress in a toroidal shell
Consider the following formula for circumferential stress (σ2) in a toroidal shell (taken from Roark's Formulae for Stress and Strain):
It seems that it has been derived by using simple force balance ...
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Is It Possible To Calculate The Internal Pressure Which A Sealed Glass Vessel Can Support, By Creating A Relative Vacuum Outside The Vessel?
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I am not an engineer. Well, I'm a computer scientist but I don't do this. I do, however, brew kombucha and am looking to scale up. I have a new ...
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Rectangular pressure vessel
I'm trying to find a theory reference for stress and deformation analysis of a closed rectangular pressure vessels with constant thickness subjected to pressure loads.
By now, my test case would be ...
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Pros and Cons of Carbon Fibre High Pressure Tank
What are the advantages and disadvantages of using carbon fibre for pressure vessel construction?
Carbon fibre has a very high tensile strength and is very light-weight.
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How do I calculate the stress distribution (von Mises stress) on the top cap of a vacuum vessel cylinder subjected to 77 kPa, h=600 mm and dia=200mm
I have designed a vacuum vessel 600 mm deep and 200 mm in diameter with a thickness of 2mm from SS 316 and simulated pressure distribution using FEA. I want to theoretically validate the findings and ...
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Cuboid pressured container - will the pressure reach the shear pressure of the material?
I'm having a go at designing a water electrolyser for producing hydrogen. I would like to store the hydrogen with minimal compression effort. Up until the past week I have been thinking about using a ...
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What are the claimed advantages of using Carbon fiber for a pressure hull? [closed]
Much of the news around the Titan incident has focused on all the reasons that carbon fiber was a bad choice for the hull, but I've yet to see any discussion as to why it was chosen at all.
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Thin wall pressure vessels: local stresses in bends
How can I calculate the stresses in corners where different geometries meet?
This image is a quick example of the positions i am referring to.
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In class we studied the membrane ...
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In a thin-walled cylinder, what exactly is Hoop Stress vs Radial Stress?
If I have a thin-walled and not very stiff cylinder, such as a rubber-band, and I put it between two pins and pull it apart radially, is the force required considered the hoop force or radial force? ...
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Why is there a MIN and MAX marking on a car coolant bottle?
This question was initially posted in physics stack exchange, then the mechanics stack exchange but I think it's more appropriate for engineering section instead.
I've always thought the minimum and ...
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If a piston has a larger upper surface area than lower surface area experience a force downwards even if that piston is ventilated?
Here I have a system where there is 18 bar of Nitrogen in a valve with a piston. The pressurized nitrogen is below the piston, above the piston, and also in the ventilation bore in the piston. ...
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What is the best way to go about finding properties of stress like working stress and yield strength when the material is unknown?
Our group has been working to design a combustion chamber of a relatively small hybrid engine with a chamber pressure of 30 bars. We are currently faced with the problem that we cannot easily access ...
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How to 'normalise' the effect of temperature on pressure to determine an accurate leak rate
I want to determine the leak rate of a container. I pumped it with air and measured the temperature and pressure within the container. What I observed is that, due to fluctuations of temperature in ...
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Are you able to compute the bending moment exerted on the inner edges of parallelepiped box under inner pressure?
Suppose you have a parallelepiped box of dimensions $a\times b\times L$ with $L\gg (a+b)$, filled with simple distilled water exerting a uniform and constant inner pressure $p$ as reported in figure.
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How to calculate the logarithmic mean temperature difference of a jacketed vessel?
I'm a bit confused on how to calculate the $ \Delta T_{LM}$ of a jacketed isothermal CSTR. Because the formula for the logarithmic mean temperature difference is:
$$ \Delta T_{LM} = \frac{\Delta T_{...
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