This up-to-date account of technology of external pressure vessels discusses problems of buckling walls of submarine hulls, torpedoes, aircraft, space shuttles and missiles, underwater storage vessels, oil drilling rigs, grain storage silos, cooling towers, valves, tunnels, immersed tubes, and even tin can containers of food and everyday products. Stress analysts, designers, consultants, manufacturers and consultants need to take account of external pressures on descending submarines, ascending or descending rockets, aircraft and space shuttles by devising counter-measures in structural design and materials. Professor Ross covers the problem, remediation, practical applications, experiments and theory, plastic collapse, and also provides valuable design charts.

Table of Contents

Pressure vessels under external pressure; Axisymmetric deformation; Shell instability; General instability; Vibration of shells; Vibrations of shells in water; Novel pressure hull designs; Vibration and collapse of novel pressure hulls; Design of submarine pressure hulls to withstand buckling under external hydrostatic pressure; Non-linear analyses of model submarine pressure hulls using ANSYS; Star Wars underwater; Vibration of a thin-walled shell under external water pressure using ANSYS; Appendices of computer programs; References and index.

Author Biography

Carl T F Ross, University of Portsmouth, UK