PHINMA – Cagayan de Oro College
College of Engineering and Architecture
Civil Engineering Department
Name: ___________________________________________ Rating: _______________
Section: __________________ Date: ________________
Instructor: ________________________________________
WEEKLY DRILL NO.2
Topic: Thin-Walled Pressure Vessels
Instruction: Write your answers on a separate sheet of a long bond paper/ newsprint.
Write legibly.
Provide the necessary illustrations or free-body diagrams.
Your work/output will also be evaluated based on its presentation.
Box and round off your final answers to two decimal places.
1. A spherical shell with 70-in. outer diameter and 67-in. inner diameter contains helium at a pressure of
1200 psi. Compute the stress in the shell. _________________
Situation - The bar ABCD in the figure consists of three cylindrical steel segments with different lengths and
The cylindrical portion of the propane tank has an outer diameter of 12 in. and a wall thickness of 0.125 in. The
tank is pressurized to 200 psi.
2. Calculate the longitudinal stress in the wall of the cylinder. _________________
3. Calculate the circumferential stress in the wall of the cylinder. _________________
4. A cylindrical pressure vessel is fabricated from steel plating that has a thickness of 20 mm. The
diameter of the pressure vessel is 450 mm, and its length is 2.0 m. Determine the maximum internal
pressure that can be applied if the longitudinal stress is limited to 140 MPa, and the circumferential
stress is limited to 60 MPa. _________________
Situation - The tank shown in the figure is fabricated from 1/8-in steel plate. The tank has an internal
pressure of 125 psi.
5. Calculate the maximum longitudinal stress developed in the tank. _________________
6. Calculate the maximum hoop stress developed in the tank. _________________
7. The strength of longitudinal joint in Fig. 1-17 is 33 kips/ft, whereas for the girth is 16 kips/ft.
Calculate the maximum diameter of the cylinder tank if the internal pressure is 150 psi.
_________________
Situation - A pipe carrying steam at 3.5 MPa has an outside diameter of 450 mm and a wall thickness of 10
mm. A gasket is inserted between the flange at one end of the pipe and a flat plate used to cap the end.
How many 40-mm-diameter bolts must be used to hold the cap on if the allowable stress in the bolts is 80
MPa, of which 55 MPa is the initial stress?
8. What circumferential stress is developed in the pipe? _________________
9. Calculate the minimum wall thickness for a cylindrical vessel that is to carry a gas at a pressure of
1400 psi. The diameter of the vessel is 2 ft, and the stress is limited to 12 ksi. _________________
PHINMA – Cagayan de Oro College
College of Engineering and Architecture
Civil Engineering Department
Situation - An 8 mm thick steel tank has an outside diameter of 600 mm and a length of 3 m. It is subjected
to an internal pressure of 2 MPa.
10. Determine the circumferential stress in the tank. _________________
11. Find the longitudinal stress in the tank. _________________
12. To what value could the internal pressure be increased if the allowable design stress.
________________
Situation - A pressure vessel, 320 mm in diameter is to be fabricated from steel plates. The vessel is to carry
an internal pressure of 4 MPa.
13. Find the required thickness of the plate if the vessel is to be cylindrical. The allowable stress is 120
MPa. ________________
14. What is the required thickness of the plate if the vessel is to be spherical? Allowable stress is 120
MPa. ________________
15. The vessel to be fabricated is a cylinder using 12 mm thick steel plating. What is the max. internal
pressure that the vessel can carry if the allowable steel stress is 60 MPa? ________________
Situation - A pressure vessel 500 mm in diameter is to be fabricated from steel plating. The allowable steel
stress is 138 MPa.
16. The vessel is to be cylindrical and will be subjected to an internal pressure of 4 MPa. Determine the
thickness of the plate (mm). ________________
17. What is the required plate thickness (mm) of the vessel if it is to be spherical and will be subjected to
an internal pressure control of 4 MPa? ________________
18. Determine the maximum internal pressure (MPa) that a cylindrical vessel 12 mm thick can be
subjected to, if the allowable stress is 120 MPa. ________________
Situation - A thin cylindrical shell has an internal diameter of 250 mm and is 6 mm thick. It is subjected to an
internal pressure of 3 MN/m2.
19. Estimate the circumferential and longitudinal stresses if the ends of the cylinder are closed.
________________
20. If the ends of the cylinder are closed by pistons sliding in the cylinder, estimate the circumferential
and longitudinal stresses. ________________
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