Eulogio “Amang” Rodriguez Institute of Science and Technology

College of Engineering

Mechanical Engineering Department

CENMECDB 3A – Mechanics of Deformable Bodies – M 07:00am to 10:00am

Submitted by:

Nungay, Gino I.

Admitted by:

Engr. Jeremaih Fainsan

Activity 4

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.

Solving for the maximum diameter of cylinder tank.

T F T

t t

Solving for the diameter of longitudinal joint (tangential stress)

𝐴𝑠𝑠𝑢𝑚𝑒 1 𝑓𝑡. 𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑡ℎ

𝐹 = 2𝑇

𝑝𝐷 2σ𝑡 𝑡
=
2𝑡 2𝑡

𝑝𝐷
σ𝑡 =
2𝑡

𝑙𝑏 𝑙𝑏 12 𝑖𝑛 2 𝑙𝑏
𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑡 150 𝑝𝑠𝑖 𝑡𝑜 2 ; 150 2 × [ ] = 21,600 2
𝑓𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑓𝑡 𝑓𝑡
 33000 21,600𝐷
=
𝑡 2𝑡

𝐷 = 3.05 𝑓𝑡

t t
Solving for the girth joint (longitudinal stress)

𝑆𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝐹 = 𝑃

1 F
P
𝑝 ( π𝐷2 ) = σ1 (π𝐷𝑡)
4
D
𝑝𝐷
σ1 =
4𝑡

16,000 21600𝐷
=
𝑡 4𝑡

𝐷 = 2.96𝑓𝑡