# To find volume of a cylindrical shell with holes around it

ITS NOT A HOMEWORK PROBLEM
PROBLEM::- THINK OF A CYLINDRICAL SHELL WITH NUMEROUS SPHERICAL HOLES ALL AROUND IT.
HOW TO FIND VOLUME & SURFACE AREA OF SUCH A CYLINDRICAL SHELL.
(A GENERALIZED CASE FOR N HOLES AROUND THE SHELL.)

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What's the formula for the volume of a cylinder?

(Pi).r^2. h

& i need the volume of the shell, not the cylindrical cavity.

OK, I'm not totally sure how they differ. Do you mean the amount of material required to make one of the things you describe.

Alternatively what is the thickness of the "rim" of the cylinder, and how big are the holes wrt to the cylinder?

.... there's a cylinder with inner dia R and outer dia R+dR..... it has holes all around penetrating the whole thickness of the shell.... assume the rim to be hollow and radius of holes to be "r" ....
Now, as we knw, the volume of a normal cylindrical shell is (pi)(R+dr-R)^2.(h).. Now what i want to ask is that --what would be the volume of the cylindrical shell with holes all around..... (i have attached a picture of water-pipe, u can see that for reference.)

How big are the holes compared to the pipe? If they're small, can we make an assumption that they are flat?

no, we can't .....

LCKurtz
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Can you assume the holes were drilled with a bit so the sides of the holes are portions of cylinders and the projection of the holes perpendicular to their axes are circles?

LCKurtz
Let's assume the pipe has inner radius ##a## and outer radius ##b## and orient the pipe so the surfaces are ##x^2+z^2 = a^2## and ##x^2+z^2 = b^2##. Now we drill a vertical hole of radius ##c## centered on the ##z## axis through the upper side of the cylinder. The volume of material removed is$$\int_0^{2\pi}\int_0^c\int_{\sqrt{a^2-r^2\cos^2\theta}}^{\sqrt{b^2-r^2\cos^2\theta}}r\, dzdrd\theta$$All you have to do is work that out and multiply by the number of holes. :tongue2: