Unit V - Thin and Thick Cylinders

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Unit 5 : Thin and Thick Cylinders

Dr. M. Selavaraj
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Topics Covered

• Thin cylindrical and spherical shells


• Thick cylinders

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Thin-Walled Pressure Vessels

A pressurized cylinder is considered a thin-walled vessel


if the wall thickness is less than one-twentieth of the
radius. t
< 1/20 Thin-walled pressure
d
Wall vessel
thickness
t
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Longitudinal Stress
Longitudinal Stress

Longitudinal stress, f2

Pressure area

Internal
pressure, p
Hoop (or) Circumferential Stress
Hoop (or) Circumferential Stress

Hoop stress
 Fx = 0 Hoop stress

2f1 t l = p d l) θ

pd
f1 = Max. Hoop stress
2t

Projected
area
f2 = ½ f 1
• Since hoop stress is twice longitudinal stress, the
cylinder would fail by tearing along a line parallel to
the axis, rather than on a section perpendicular to the
axis.
• The equation for hoop stress is therefore used to
determine the cylinder thickness.
• Allowance is made for this by dividing the thickness
obtained in hoop stress equation by efficiency (i.e.
tearing and shearing efficiency) of the joint.
Strain, change in volume in cylinder

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Efficiency of the joint

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Strain, change in volume in spherical shell

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Thin Spherical Vessels (or) Shells
• Radial stress is small and thus neglected.
• The hoop stress distribution over the
cross section is uniform.
• At any cross section of the sphere, both
hoop and longitudinal stresses
(principal) are same. Therefore, there is
no shear stress in spherical shells.

pd
l =  θ =
4t
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Thick cylinders

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Compound cylinders

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Shrinkage allowance

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