DISCONTINUITY STRESSES IN PRESSURE VESSELS--SHORT CIRCULAR CYLINDRICAL SHELL WITH ELLIPSOIDAL HEAD CLOSURE. PART I. SHELLS OF EQUAL THICKNESS

Abstract

Elastic stress istributions at the junction of a pressure vessel which consists of a short circular cylindrical shell section with ellipsoidal head closures are developed on the basis of Love's classical shell theory. This brief study is facilitated by assuming uniform shell thickness throughout the pressure vessel. A typical example was carried out, and the results were compared to those obtained by using the formulas of Timoshenko, S. and Woinowsky-Krieger, S.(Theory of Plates and Shells, mcGraw-Hill, Inc., NYC, 2 ed, 1959). (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 05, 1961
Accession Number
AD0261137

Entities

People

  • Norman N. Au

Organizations

  • The Aerospace Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Discontinuities
  • Geometry
  • Mathematics
  • Pressure Vessels
  • Thickness

Readers

  • Structural Dynamics.