Descripción
Engineers and designers involved in the research and development of acrylic plastic viewports, acrylic pressure hulls for submersibles and hyperbaric chambers and panels for aquaria will find this book both practical and illustrative. This fully documented design handbook is ideally suited for engineers, designers, operators, and inspectors of pressure vessels who need to know and understand the technology of viewport and hyperbaric chamber development. Particular emphasis is placed on the effect of dynamic, short-term, cyclic, and long-term pressure loading on the structural integrity of the acrylic window. In addition, the safety factors recommended for their design, to preclude catastrophic failure, are covered in a separate section on the ANSI/ASME PVHO Safety Standard. The book demonstrates in a practical, hand-on fashion the relationship between good engineering practices and uncompromised, safe acrylic viewports, hyperbaric chambers and aquaria. Materials, fabrication processes, distribution of stresses and strains in standard window shapes, critical pressures, bonding techniques, deterioration of acrylic material, and surface finishes are all discussed for the benefit of the designer. In addition, the designer, operator and/or inspector is made aware of how to care for acrylic in service and what things may harm or even destroy the usefulness of the acrylic. Using the information presented herein allows the engineer to design, fabricate and test numerous acrylic structures which will be safe, economical and long lasting.
EAN | 9781930536159Editor | Amazon.comAutor | Jerry D STACHIWEstado | Sin existencias. Disponible a corto plazoAño de edición | 2003Número de edición | 1ªPáginas | 1066Idioma | englishEncuadernación | hardback
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