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MEng 2151 Ass2

The document discusses pressure vessels and includes questions about classifying pressure vessels, distinguishing between thick and thin cylinders, design considerations for pressure vessels, stresses in cylindrical shells under pressure, and calculating wall/plate thicknesses for cylinders and spherical shells based on internal pressure, material properties, and safety factors.

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MEng 2151 Ass2

The document discusses pressure vessels and includes questions about classifying pressure vessels, distinguishing between thick and thin cylinders, design considerations for pressure vessels, stresses in cylindrical shells under pressure, and calculating wall/plate thicknesses for cylinders and spherical shells based on internal pressure, material properties, and safety factors.

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1. What is the pressure vessel ?

2. Make out a systematic classification of pressure vessels.


3. How do you distinguish between a thick and thin cylinder?
4. What are the important points to be considered while designing a pressure vessel?
5. Distinguish between circumferential stress and longitudinal stress in a cylindrical shell,
when subjected to an internal pressure.

6. A steel cylinder of 1 metre diameter is carrying a fluid under a pressure of 10 N/mm 2.


Calculate the necessary wall thickness, if the tensile stress is not to exceed 100 MPa.
[Ans. 50 mm]
7. A steam boiler, 1.2 metre in diameter, generates steam at a gauge pressure of 0.7 N/mm 2.
Assuming the efficiency of the riveted joints as 75%, find the thickness of the shell.
Given that ultimate tensile stress = 385 MPa and factor of safety = 5. [Ans. 7.3 mm]
8. Find the thickness of a cast iron cylinder 250 mm in diameter to carry a pressure of 0.7
N/mm2. Take maximum tensile stress for cast iron as 14 MPa. [Ans. 6.25 mm]
9. A pressure vessel has an internal diameter of 1 m and is to be subjected to an internal
pressure of 2.75 N/mm2 above the atmospheric pressure. Considering it as a thin cylinder
and assuming the efficiency of its riveted joint to be 79%, calculate the plate thickness if
the tensile stress in the material is not to exceed 88 MPa. [Ans. 20 mm]
10. A spherical shell of 800 mm diameter is subjected to an internal pressure of 2 N/mm 2.
Find the thickness required for the shell if the safe stress is not to exceed 100 MPa.
[Ans. 4 mm]

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