ASSIGNMENT-4

Determine the safety of the submarine hull with dual skin arrangement of inner diameter 5m with an outer
shell thickness of 50mm and an inner shell thickness of 50mm operating at a depth of 150m below mean sea
level. Yield strength of material is to be taken as 345 MPa. The height, thickness and spacing of stiffening rings
is 500mm, 25mmm and 1m respectively. The longitudinal bending of the hull shall be estimated using the
empirical formula M=0.05 L2w in which w is the weight of hull /m and L is the length of the hull = 200m.

Given Data

Water Depth Wd  150  m

Diameter D  5  m

Outer Shell thickness to  50 mm

Inner Shell thickness ti  50 mm

Length of the hull Lh  200  m

Depth of stiffener d stiff  500  mm

Thickness of stiffner tstiff  25 mm

Spacing of stiffening rings Sp  1  m

Yield Strength of material Fy  345  MPa

kN kN
Density of steel and water ρs  78.5 ρw  10.25 
3 3
m m
Young's Modulus 5
E  2  10  MPa
Poisson's ratio
ν  0.3
Safety factor against
SF h  2.0
hydrostatic collapse
Safety Factor for Axial Tension/Comp. SF x  1.67

Diameter of Inner Shell Di  D  2ti Di  5.1 m

Diameter of Outer Shell Do  Di  2d stiff  2to Do  6.2 m

d stiff
Depth to thickness ratio  20
tstiff

Maximum hydrostatic pressure p h  ρw Wd p h  1.538  MPa

p h  Do
Maximum hoop compressive stress fh 
2  to fh  95.3 MPa

0.5
 2  Do 
Sp
Geometric parameter M    M  2.54
Do
 to 
Assignment 4 1
 Self Weight & Moment of Inertia Calculation

wih    Di  D   ρs
kN
 
π 2 2
Self wt of Inner Shell/m   wih  62.27 
4 m

woh   Do  Do  2  to   ρs
kN
 
π 2 2
Self wt of outer Shell/m   woh  75.8
4 m
  
d stiff  ρs kN
wsh  π  Do    d stiff  tstiff  wsh  18.342
Self wt of stiffener plate/m   2   m m

kN
Self wt of hull wh  wih  woh  wsh wh  156.446 
m

Moment inertia of hull π  4

 Do  Do  2  to  
π  4
  Di  Di  2  ti  Ih  7.097 m
  
4 4 4
Ih 
64   64  
Moment of inertia for Stiffener

 
0.5
Effective width of outer shell Bho  1.1 Do  to Bho  0.612 m

 
0.5
Effective width of inner shell Bhi  1.1 Di ti Bhi  0.555 m

  to    dstiff    ti 
 Bho to     d stiff  ti   tstiff  dstiff     ti   Bhi ti   
Nuetral axis Yna 
 2    2    2  Y  0.311 m
Bho to  tstiff  dstiff   Bhi ti na

3 2
Moment of inertia of Outer shell Bho to  to 
  Bho to   
9 4
Ip1   d stiff  ti  Yna Ip1  2.14  10  mm
about Nuetral axis 12 2 
3 2
Moment of inertia of Stiffener about tstiff  d stiff  dstiff 
  tstiff  d stiff   
8 4
Ip2   ti  Yna Ip2  2.62  10  mm
Nuetral axis 12  2 
3 2
Moment of inertia of Inner shell about Bhi ti  to 
  Bhi ti  
9 4
Ip3   Yna Ip3  2.28  10  mm
Nuetral axis 12 2 
Moment of inertia of combined 9 4
Iprov  Ip1  Ip2  Ip3 Iprov  4.68  10  mm
section about Nuetral axis

Assignment 4 2
 Check for Hoop Compressive Stress
to Do
Buckling Coefficient Ch  0.44 if M  1.6
Do to

  Do  
3

 t
  
t D D
0.44 o  0.21  o   if 0.825  o  M  1.6 o
 Do 4  to to
 M 

 0.736  if 3.5  M  0.825 Do

 
 M  0.636  to

 0.755  if 1.5  M  3.5

 
 M  0.559 
0.8 if M  1.5 Ch  0.381

to 3
Fhe  2  Ch  E Fhe  1.2  10  MPa
Elastic Hoop Buckling Stress Do

2
Minimum moment of to  Sp D
Iring   Fhe 8 4
inertia of ring required 8 E Iring  9.605  10  mm

Critical Hoop Buckling Stress Fhc  Fhe if Fhe  0.55 Fy

0.45 Fy  0.18 Fhe if 0.55 Fy  Fhe  1.6 Fy

1.31 Fy
if 1.6 Fy  Fhe  6.2 Fy Fhc  315.9  MPa
 Fy 
 1.15  
Fhe
 
Fy if Fhe  6.2 Fy

fh
Unity Check for UC1   SF h UC1  0.603
Fhc
Hoop Compressive Stress

Check for Axial Tension & Hydrostatic pressure

2 5
Longitudinal Bending of the hull M h  0.05 Lh  wh M h  3.1  10  kN m

Absolute Axial stress fa  0  MPa

M h Do
Absolute resultant bending stress fb   fb  136.7  MPa
Ih 2

Maximum tensile stress combination At 


fa  fb  0.5 fh   SF
Fy x
At  0.431

Assignment 4 3
 fh
Bt   SF h
Fhc Bt  0.603

Unity Check for Axial Tension& 2 2

UC2  At  Bt  2  ν At  Bt UC2  0.706
Hydrostatic pr.

Check for Axial Compression & Hydrostatic pressure (Longidunal Compressive stresses)
D D
ratio Ratio 
t to

10340
Allowable bending stress Fb  0.75 Fy  MPa if Ratio 
Fy

 1.74 Fy  D  10340 20680

 0.84    Fy MPa if  Ratio 
E t o Fy Fy
 
 0.58 Fy  D  20680
 0.72    Fy MPa if  Ratio  300
E t o Fy
 
Fb  213.9  MPa

Fy
SF b  SF b  1.613
Safety factor for bending Fb

Ce  0.3
Critical elastic buckling coefficient
to
Fxe  2  Ce E Fxe  967.742  MPa
Elastic Local Buckling stress Do

  1 
  
 4
  o 
D
F1  Fy  1.64  0.23   
  to   F1  301.01 MPa

Fxc  F1 if Fxe  F1
Inelastic Local Buckling stress
 Do  Fxc  301.01 MPa
Fy if  t   60
 o


fa  0.5 fh   SF fb
UC31 
Fxc

x  F  SF b  UC31  0.903
y
8
Maximum Comp.stress combination fx  fa  fb  0.5 fh fx  1.843  10 Pa

Fxe
Faa  Faa  579.486  MPa
SF x

Fhe
Fha 
SF h Fha  614.71 MPa

Assignment 4 4
 2
fx  0.5 Fha  fh 
UC32   
Faa  0.5 Fha UC32  0.428
 Fha 

Unity Check for Axial Compression UC3  UC32 if fx  0.5 Fha

& Hydrostatic pressure. UC3  0.903
UC31 if fx  0.5 Fha

Assignment 4 5