Hoop-Wrapped, Composite Internally Pressurized Cylinders. Development and Applications of a Design Theory
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Author(s): J. A. Walters
Publisher: ASME International
ISBN: 0791802019
Format: hardback
119pp
Price: $80.00
Review Date: 05 December 2003
Review: Here the author gives a theoretical approach to composite cylinder design for hoop-wrapped cylinders. The composite cylinder presents a complex design problem, with the large number of variables involved and the need for an understanding of the interaction between the linier and overwrap. This book provides engineers with a comprehensive philosophical framework for the design of hoop-wrapper composite gas cylinders, taking account of all the important design variables and interactions. During normal use, a hoop-wrapped composite gas cylinder is designed to operate as an elastic body. A method often used to increase the elastic range in service is to produce controlled plastic overstrain in the liner during cylinder manufacture. Burst characteristics of the cylinder are intimately associated with plastic deformation of the liner. Consideration of the plastic behaviour of the liner in the presence of elastic constraint of the reinforced overwrap has provided the essential insight that is necessary for developing the given design theory.