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Determine the normal stress in a ball, which has an outside diameter of 220 mm and a wall thickness of 3 mm, when the ball is inflated to a gage pressure of 110 kPa.

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A spherical gas-storage tank with an inside diameter of 30 ft is being constructed to store gas under an internal pressure of 200 psi. The tank will be constructed from structural steel that has a yield strength of 36 ksi. If a factor of safety of 3.0 with respect to the yield strength is required, determine the minimum wall thickness required for the spherical tank.

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A spherical gas-storage tank with an inside diameter of 12 m is being constructed to store gas under an internal pressure of 1.75 MPa. The tank will be constructed from structural steel that has a yield strength of 250 MPa. If a factor of safety of 3.0 with respect to the yield strength is required, determine the minimum wall thickness required for the spherical tank

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A spherical pressure vessel has an inside diameter of 4 m and a wall thickness of 15 mm. The vessel will be constructed from structural steel [E = 200 GPa; = 0.29] that has a yield strength of 250 MPa. If the internal pressure in the vessel is 1,200 kPa, determine (a) the normal stress in the vessel wall, (b) the factor of safety with respect to the yield strength.

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The normal strain measured on the outside surface of a spherical pressure vessel is 820 . The sphere has an outside diameter of 54 in. and a wall thickness of 0.50 in., and it will be fabricated from an aluminum alloy [E = 10,000 ksi; = 0.33]. Determine (a) the normal stress in the vessel wall and (b) the internal pressure in the vessel.

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A typical aluminum-alloy scuba diving tank is shown. The outside diameter of the tank is 200 mm and the wall thickness is 12 mm. If the air in the tank is pressurized to 20 MPa, determine the longitudinal and hoop stresses in the wall of the tank.

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A cylindrical boiler with an outside diameter of 3.60 m and a wall thickness of 40 mm is made of a steel alloy that has a yield stress of 415 MPa. Determine the maximum normal stress produced by an internal pressure of 2 MPa.

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When filled to capacity, the unpressurized storage tank shown contains water to a height of h = 24 ft. The outside diameter of the tank is 8 ft and the wall thickness is 0.625 in. Determine the maximum normal stress.

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A tall open-topped standpipe has an inside diameter of 2,250 mm and a wall thickness of 8 mm. The standpipe contains water, which has a mass density of 1,000 kg/m3. What height h of water will produce a circumferential stress of 16 MPa in the wall of the standpipe?

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A closed cylindrical vessel contains a fluid at a pressure of 720 psi. The cylinder, which has an outside diameter of 64 in. and a wall thickness of 1.000 in., is fabricated from stainless steel [E = 28,000 ksi; u = 0.27]. Determine the increase in both the diameter and the length of the cylinder.