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.Thin Walled Pressure Vessels331Lecture 3: THIN WALLED PRESSURE VESSELS32TABLE OF CONTENTSPage3.1. 3.6.Pressure Vessels Assumptions Cylindrical Vessels 3.3.1. Stress Assumptions. Free Body Diagrams. Spherical Pressure Vessel 3.4.1. Stress Assumptions. Free Body Diagram.
Remarks on Pressure Vessel Design Numerical Example 3.6.1. Cylindrical Tank With Bolted Lids.33 34 34 34 35 36 36 37 2333.1PRESSURE VESSELSThis Lecture continues with the theme of the last one: using average stresses instead of point stresses to quickly get results useful in preliminary design or in component design.
We look at more complicated structural congurations: thin wall pressure vessels, which despite their apparently higher complexity can be treated directly by statics if both geometry and loading are sufciently simple. The main difference with respect to the component congurations treated in the previous lecture is that the state of stress in the vessel wall is two dimensional.
More specically: plane stress. As such they will provide examples for 2D stress-displacemnet analysis once 2D strains and multidimensional material laws are introduced in Lectures 45. Pressure Vessels(a)(b)Figure 3.1. Pressure vessels used for uid storage: (a) spherical tanks, (b) cylindrical tank.Thin wall pressure vessels (TWPV) are widely used in industry for storage and transportation of liquids and gases when congured as tanks. See Figure 3.1.
They also appear as components of aerospace and marine vehicles such as rocket and balloon skins and submarine hulls (although in the latter case the vessel is externally pressurized, violating one of the assumptions listed below). Two geometries will be examined in this lecture: Cylindrical pressure vessels. Spherical pressure vessels.The walls of an ideal thin-wall pressure vessel act as a membrane (that is, they are unaffected by bending stresses over most of their extent). A sphere is an optimal geometry for a closed pressure vessel in the sense of being the most structurally efcient shape.
A cylindrical vessel is somewhat less efcient for two reasons: (1) the wall stresses vary with direction, (2) closure by end caps can alter signicantly the ideal membrane state, requiring additional local reinforcements. However the cylindrical shape may be more convenient to fabricate and transport.33Lecture 3: THIN WALLED PRESSURE VESSELS343.2. Assumptions Two key assumptions: wall thinness and geometrical symmetries make possible to obtain average wall stresses analysis with simple free-body diagrams. Here is a list of our assumptions: 1.
Wall Thinness. The wall is assumed to be very thin compared to the other dimensions of the vessel. If the thickness is t and a characteristic dimension is R (for example, the radius of the cylinder or sphere) we assume that t/R 1 (3.1)Usually R/t 10. As a result, we may assume that the stresses are uniform across the wall. In cylindrical vessels, the geometry and the loading are cylindrically symmetric.
Consequently the stresses may be assumed to be independent of the angular coordinate of the cylindrically coordinate system. In spherical vessels, the geometry and the loading are spherically symmetric.
Therefore the stresses may be assumed to be independent of the two angular coordinates of the spherical coordinate system and in fact is the same in all directions. Uniform Internal Pressure. The internal pressure, denoted by p, is uniform and everywhere positive. If the vessel is also externally pressurized, for example subject to athmospheric pressure, p is dened by subtracting the external pressure from the internal one, a difference called gage pressure. If the external pressure is higher, as in the case of a submarine hull, the stress formulas should be applied with extreme caution because another failure mode: instability due to wall buckling, may come into play.
See Section 3.5. Ignoring End Effects. Features that may affect the symmetry assumptions are ignored. This includes supports and cylinder end caps.
The assumption is that disturbances of the basic stress state are conned to local regions and may be ignored in basic design decision such as picking up the thickness away from such regions.3.4.We study the two geometries next. Cylindrical Vessels We consider a cylindrical vessel of radius R, thickness t loaded by internal pressure p. We use the cylindrical coordinate system (x, r, ) depeicted in Figure 3.2(a), in which x r axial coordinate angular coordinate, positive as shown radial coordinate3.3.1. Stress Assumptions Cut the cylinder by two normal planes at x and x + d x, and then by two planes and + d as shown in Figure 3.2(a). The resulting material element, shown in exploded view in Figure 3.2(b) has six surfaces. The outer surface r = R is stress free.
Thus rr = r x = r = 0 34 at r = R (3.2)35Wall thickness t3.3CYLINDRICAL VESSELSr2RxFree surface: rr = 0, rx = 0, r = 0 rr inside body neglected since it varies from p to 0 over wall, which is.