Design, analysis, manufacture, and test of shallow water pressure vessels using E-glass/epoxy woven composite material for a semi-autonomous underwater vehicle

Journal of Composite Materials

Volumn 36, Issue 21, 2002, Pages 2443-2478

  Ng, R K H ^a   Yousefpour, A ^a   Uyema, M ^a   Ghasemi Nejhad, M N ^a  

^a University of Hawaii at Manoa   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite element analysis; Glass epoxy shallow water composite pressure vessels; Hydrostatic external pressure testing; Nonlinear buckling analysis; Nonlinear stress analysis; Shrink taping; Three dimensional crimp model; Three dimensional woven effective properties; Tube roll wrapping; Wet laying

Indexed keywords

BUCKLING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PRESSURE VESSELS; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; SHEAR STRESS; STRESS ANALYSIS;

BENDING STRESS; HYDROSTATIC EXTERNAL PRESSURE TESTING; ROLL-WRAPPING; SHRINK TAPING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL CRIMP MODEL; WET LAYING;

COMPOSITE MATERIALS;

EID: 0036432824     PISSN: 00219983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0021998302036021972     Document Type: Article

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