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Civil-Comp Proceedings
ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 55
ADVANCES IN COMPUTATIONAL STRUCTURAL MECHANICS
Edited by: B.H.V. Topping
Paper XVI.7

Shape Optimization of Heads of Cylindrical Pressure Vessels

K. Magnucki* and J. Lewinski+

*Institute of Technology, Pedagogical University of Zielona Gora, Poland
+Institute of Applied Mechanics, Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
K. Magnucki, J. Lewinski, "Shape Optimization of Heads of Cylindrical Pressure Vessels", in B.H.V. Topping, (Editor), "Advances in Computational Structural Mechanics", Civil-Comp Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp 421-425, 1998. doi:10.4203/ccp.55.16.7
Abstract
The paper presents the shapes of heads of cylindrical pressure vessels. Discussed heads do not disturb the membrane state of stress in the vessel. Two head shapes are determined - one of them with regard to achieving possibly uniform strength and the other with regard to minimal value of head to medium mass ratio. Results of the analysis are presented graphically.

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