MCL 730 Lab: 3

Designing with Advanced Materials Date:23/01/2019

A filament-wound closed cylindrical pressure vessel of mean diameter d = 1 m and length l = 5 m is subjected
to an internal pressure 5 MPa. Design a minimum weight vessel by choosing appropriate material, vessel
thickness, and orientation. Use the Hoffman failure criteria.

Figure 1: The filament-wound pressure vessel

Table : Unidirectional Reinforced Composite Material Properties

Property Glass-Epoxy Boron-Epoxy Graphite-Epoxy Kevlar-Epoxy
E1 (GPa) 54 207 207 76
E2 (GPa) 18 21 5 5.5
υ12 0.25 0.3 0.25 0.34
G12 (GPa) 9 7 2.6 2.1
Xt (MPa) 1035 1380 1035 1380
Yt (MPa) 28 83 41 28
S (MPa) 41 124 69 44
XC (MPa) 1035 2760 689 276
YC (MPa) 138 276 117 138
Density (g/cm3) 1.90 2.50 1.6 1.18