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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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