Air Tank Cover
Check the concrete or steel walls of a room around a compressed-air tank against the blast load if the tank releases its air.
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Highlights
- Net pressure on both faces of every wall from a compressible-gas SPH run, or a fast screening estimate
- Each wall solved as an elastic shell, with dynamic von Mises stress per wall and per thickness
- Finds the thinnest wall in the grid that holds, for plain concrete, rebar-mesh concrete or steel sheet
- Play the blast frame by frame on the walls, with transparent and mesh views in 3D
- Save and reopen your inputs on your computer or in your cloud
A question it answers
If this tank lets go inside the room, which wall takes the worst load, and is a concrete wall of this thickness enough, with or without a rebar mesh?What you put in
Tank volume, pressure, temperature and position in the room; room interior size, gap, corridor width, top wall length, wall thickness and height; wall material: concrete (modulus, Poisson ratio, tensile strength, optional rebar mesh) or flat steel sheet (yield strength, safety factor, modulus); optional rebar mesh (bar diameter, spacing, cover, steel yield, concrete compressive strength, cracked-stiffness factor); load source (a fast pressure estimate without a gas run, or a gas resolution: draft, standard, fine). The room is open above.
What you get
The room and tank drawn in 3D, net peak pressure per wall, SPH against shell impulse per wall, dynamic von Mises stress per wall and per thickness, the thinnest thickness that holds the tensile strength (or that none in the grid does), walls coloured by the verdict, and the room as actually analysed.
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