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Twisting of thick ring due to internal pressure
I have an axisymmetrical part that is subject to an internal (non-constant along the inner border, but constant in time) pressure (among other loads, but this is the one I am interested about) and I ...
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Why are the water tank walls made of stretch film warping a lot whereas theoretically they shouldn't that much?
I am building a water tank of custom dimensions (1.5 m x 0.72 m x 0.86 m) out of stretch film. The stretch film is wrapped around a steel frame (see here for more info on this open source project).
I ...
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Strong resin for fibreglass
Is there a binding material that could be reinforced with woven glass fibres cloth for tensile strength, but which offers reasonable containment against high pressure when used minimally? Ie ...
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Strength of Plastic Underwater Domes with various thicknesses
I'm currently researching the strength of domes underwater and I went down the rabithole of material science. The basics of this research (or though experiment) is to bring a dome filled with air to ...
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