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Thank you for the quick reply. I was planning to tig weld the skeleton to the cylinder, with a weld on both sides of the structure. In that way the construction should be able to take forces from both sides. (Kind of like a like a steel beam) The lid will be clamped down using big (threaded)...

I see I tried to use a too long name for the topic. Now it's not really clear what the subject of the topic is, and I can't find a button to change that. Could the admin please change the title to something like: Calculating thickness/exoskeleton vacuum chamber. Thank a lot!

Hi Members, As described above, I am making a prototype of a vacuum and compression chamber and I could use some help calculating the wall thickness/support structure that is needed to make sure things don’t go boom. After a fair amount of research I discovered that a few people did post...

Hello members, My name is Simon Tomic, I am 26 years of age and live in The Netherlands.(Holland) I finished my bachelor's degree in Structural Engineering but soon realized that the jobs that were available in this sector just couldn't fill up to my needs. Because of my strong drive for design...