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Hoop, Axial and Radial Stresses in Thick-Walled Pressure Vessels

Problem Specification

A simply-supported beam of rectangular cross-section is point loaded at some arbitrary point along its length as shown in figure below.

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_P_ Consider the following pressurized thick-walled hydraulic cylinder. The following figure shows a section through the mid-plane.

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P = 10,000 lb, _L_ = 100 in, _a_ = 75 in, _b_ = 3 in, _h_ = 8 in

The material is structural steel with Young's modulus _E_= 2.9e7 psi and Poisson's ratio of 0.3. Using ANSYS Mechanical, find the finite-element solution for non-dimensionalized maximum deflection defined as:

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