Dieless bulging and nonlinear buckling of longan-shaped pressure hull

Rui He, Jian Zhang*, Sakdirat Kaewunruen, Ming Zhan, Ping Liu

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Abstract

In this study, the dieless bulging and nonlinear buckling behaviours of a stainless longan-shaped pressure hull were investigated. According to the Cassini oval equation, the longan shape has a shape index of 0.1. The lengths of the major and minor axes of the designed longan-shaped pressure hull were approximately 400 and 396 mm, respectively. The wall thickness of this pressure hull was 1 mm. The Huber–von Mises stress and first yielding load of the designed longan-shaped shell and its inscribed polyhedral preform were investigated analytically and experimentally. Moreover, the dieless bulging of the designed longan-shaped pressure hull was investigated numerically and experimentally by using the nonlinear finite element method and a hydrostatic test, respectively. The analytical, experimental, and numerical results exhibited good agreement with each other.
Original languageEnglish
Article number100548
Number of pages18
JournalInternational Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
Volume15
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 28 Aug 2023

Bibliographical note

Acknowledgement:
This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, China (grant number: 52071160).

Keywords

  • Longan-shaped geometry
  • Pressure hull
  • Dieless bulging
  • Buckling behavior

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