Gas Bottles for Airborne Use. A Treatise Giving a Short History Leading to the Present Mintech Policy of Servicing and Testing Airborne Cylinders,

Abstract

The demand for pressurized oxygen, air, nitrogen and most compressible gases has highlighted the need for containers which will be safe under all conditions. The most popular form of container used in aircraft is a solid drawn steel cylinder which has been on the market for about fifty years. Cylinders which are approved for airborne use must pass severe tests. Briefly these tests demand that the cylinders pass an approved pressure cycling test, climatic test, bursting test and a drop test. In addition, if the expendable energy of the cylinder is in excess of 66,000 ft. lb. it must pass a firing test which simulates the effect of a fully charged bottle being hit by the fragment of a 20 mm HE shell. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1970
Accession Number
AD0718875

Entities

People

  • F. Featherstone

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Airborne
  • Aircrafts
  • Containers
  • Drop Tests
  • Expendable
  • Nitrogen

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering/Mechanics of Materials.