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    Is the Pressure Vessel Design for a Railway Cistern Appropriate?

    So for each case I work out the total longitudinal stress? For case three I am unsure if I am going about it correctly: Determine mgsinx and Ff(friction). mgsinx pushes block down the incline and Ff(friction) opposes this. Write the equation Fnet = mgsinx - FfSince Ff=uFn and we know...
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    Is the Pressure Vessel Design for a Railway Cistern Appropriate?

    Design a railway cistern for 120,000 kg of Liquid. It has to be a cylindrical shell on two supports. The cistern is 18 m long 3 m in diameter (inner). It is made of steel with the yield strength of SY= 240MPa. Safety factor of FY= 1.9; Total corrosion allowance, c= 3.0 mm; Welded joint...