Thick-wall Cylindrical Pressure Vessel Theory*
Cross-Section View with Internal and External Pressures
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Equations
for both pressures
(inside and outside)for gage pressure
(inside only)![]()
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Stress Distribution in Wall
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* from Mechanical Engineering Design, 5th Ed., by J.E. Shigley and C.R. Michke, McGraw-Hill, 1989, p59