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Hi, I want to design the cylinder made solely from frame (no skin) to connect two different cylinderical sections. The major loading conditions are axial compression and bending moments. Can anyone give me good refrence for designing such type of structure.

Thanks for the reply. Yes i forget to mentioned the solver, it was Nastran. Due to that problem, I used the Ansys which has QUAD axiysmmetric element.

Most of the mechanical properties about elastomers(or rubber) are available in the form of Hardness. I want the shear strength of the elastomer,is it possible to calculate such mechanical properties (strength and modulus) from the hardness? If yes from where i can find ther relations. Thanx

Hi ParaDoc and others. i am doing the joint analysis for the filament wound pressure vessel and its laminated skirt. Between the joint i am using some shear ply, for this purpose i have to use some shear ply, does any of you recomend me some elastomer. I have read about the use of EPDM, but...

hi, I want to use the some material as shear ply between the laminated skirt and composite pressure vessel joint, for this i have found out that epdm is quite suitable, can any body recomend me some edpm grade and its mechanical properties, especially shear modulus ( which is dependent on...

Thanks isthill, Do you have any idea how to prepare metal (collapsible) /non metal mandrel for the ASTM D 2585 test bottle. I am looking for some book or refrence to construct mandrel for filament winded pressure vessel. Thanks again.

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Hi, i want some references regarding the collapsible mandrel for filament wound pressure vessel. i am interested in such tooling which can be removed easily from the vessel after winding. Any comment will be highly appreciated.

I want to know how to find the strength of adhesive joint between metal polar boss and composite in filament wound vessel. which adhesive i should use if i am using carbon-epoxy system. and how to define its thickness between them. Dravid

Thanks again, in equation I(entire section)= I(cyl.)+I(stiff.) +Ad^2(cyl.)+Ad^2(stiff) Do i need to use Ad^2(cyl.), since I(cyld)=(PI/64)*(Dou^4-Din^4), give I at its center.

Thanks warrenw, What i understand from your answer, is that for symmetrical case (as that of stiffened cylinder), y=Radius of cylinder for thin cylinder and y=distance from center of cylinder to outer edge of flange for stiffner. is it true? Also, i have 'I' for stiffners at their centroid...

Hi, I have devlop the program for the stiffened cylinder under buckling. Now i want to add stresses due to bending moment in it using the relation stress: SIGMA= My/I. So that i could add it in the stresses develop in due to axial compression. here I=Icyl+Istrnger+Iring The question is how...

Hi, I have devlop the program for the stiffened cylinder under buckling. Now i want to add stresses due to bending moment in it using the relation stress: SIGMA= My/I. So that i could add it in the stresses develop in due to axial compression. here I=Icyl+Istrnger+Iring The question is how...

Hi, I want some relation to find out the buckling of composite shell ( non symmetric laminate) under the bending moment and torsion. There are good realation available in SP 8007, but they are realated to symmetric laminate. Any help will be appreciated.

Hi, I am doing axisymmetric analysis of orthotropic pressure vessel.It is the vessel with cylinder and elliptical heads. for this purpose, i am using large displacement static analysis with 10 load steps. The problem is that i am getting very large displacement values, but on the other hand...