<html><head></head><body><p dir="ltr">I should add to this that the dome wants to rise as a result of its own buoyancy (~150 lbf for a 24" ID hemisphere), and needs to be held to its seat with enough force to counter that, in addition to countering any positive pressure load from the inside. The former effect is likely more important than the latter.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Sean<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On August 3, 2016 8:49:26 PM MDT, "Sean T. Stevenson via Personal_Submersibles" <personal_submersibles@psubs.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<p dir="ltr">The force acting on the dome from the inside is the internal pressure multiplied by the 2D projected area encapsulated by the innermost seal. For example, if your dome is 24" ID and 26" OD (1" thick), if it seats against a single o-ring at the mid diameter, the area would be A = π(12.5)^2 = 491 in. ^2 . Conversely, if the entire window thickness sits against a bearing gasket, the seal extends to the ID, so A = π(12)^2 = 452 in. ^2 .</p>
<p dir="ltr">The internal cabin pressure acts uniformly across the entire window, but the external sea pressure does not. Across a 26" OD window, the pressure at the bottom of the window is about 1 psi greater than at the top, so in the absence of proper retention, it would preferentially pull away at the top in the event of overpressure.</p>
<p dir="ltr">As far as what to expect, that number should be zero. The only way you will encounter overpressure is if something is leaking gas into the cabin, or if there is a dramatic temperature increase.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Your dome retainers need only be strong enough to hold the dome against its seal at whatever delta-P activates the OPV, or some margin above that if it is a slow valve. As a thought, I might be inclined to spring load the retainer arrangement, so if you have a full bottle dump or some other (otherwise) catastrophic event increasing cabin pressure, the dome could vent that gas until it dropped below the spring load, and then the OPV or manual equalizing arrangements would deal with the rest. Of course, you should avoid that possibility in design, but I'm just throwing that out there.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Sean<br />
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<br /><br /><div class="gmail_quote">On August 3, 2016 8:10:56 PM MDT, Alan James via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles@psubs.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1470274650042_2592" dir="ltr"> Hi all,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1470274650042_2476" dir="ltr">need some group input here.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1470274650042_2475" dir="ltr">I was looking at a picture of Snoopy's dome that Doug posted on Facebook. (below)</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1470274650042_2486" dir="ltr">The 6 dome retainers that are made of plastic were making me nervous.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1470274650042_2526" dir="ltr">There have been a couple of cases of domes blowing off. I think George Kitrige</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1470274650042_2511" dir="ltr">was one of them. So I wanted a bit of analysis on this scenario in general.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1470274650042_2591" dir="ltr">What sort of overpressure can you expect at a max!
imum on
a dive?</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1470274650042_2571" dir="ltr">Doug's overpressure valve operates at .5psi but if you were 3psi overpressure</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1470274650042_2717" dir="ltr">the valve wouldn't operate till you were 5ft from the surface & you would have a short</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1470274650042_2702" dir="ltr">time to get the pressure down. Also wave movement would factor in & fluctuate the pressure quickly at that depth.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1470274650042_2701" dir="ltr">I think the K250 dome is 24" diameter. I calculated out that there would be 452lb </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1470274650042_2790" dir="ltr">pressure on the dome retainers for every 1psi overpressure. I based this on the area </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1470274650042_2791" dir="ltr">of a 24" disc, or should I be basing it on the area of the dome? (Sean)</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1470274650042_2743" dir="ltr">At 3psi that would !
be 226lb
lifting force on each of those 6 plastic retainers!</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1470274650042_2854" dir="ltr">What is a good safety factor here? (Sorry for picking on Snoopy Alec)</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1470274650042_2859" dir="ltr">Cheers Alan</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1470274650042_2800" dir="ltr"><br /></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1470274650042_2769" dir="ltr"><br /></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1470274650042_2698" dir="ltr"><br /></div></div><p style="margin-top: 2.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; border-bottom: 1px solid #000"></p><pre class="k9mail"><hr /><br />Personal_Submersibles mailing list<br />Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org<br /><a href="http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles">http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles</a><br /></pre></blockquote></div><p style="margin-top: 2.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; border-bottom: 1px solid #000"></p><pre class="k9mail"><hr /><br />Personal_Submersibles mailing list<br
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