<div dir="ltr">I managed to do everything, works just fine. I have just a quick question about parametre "c", which is described as "The distance of stiffener flange from neutral axis of combined stiffener and effective shell section Le" <br>Can anyone sketch me or explain me this in any way !<br><br> Thank you in advance, Petar</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-08-23 13:40 GMT+02:00 Petar Topljak <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:petar.topljak@gmail.com" target="_blank">petar.topljak@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Looks like I will have to do what Jim suggested and ad a sepparate column with conversion formula, I tried to simply imput mm or m for lenght/width etc but shell parameters come out negative ( either G or N ). I will have to figure out how to take care of thate later since I have to include all the calculations in paper.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br>Petar</font></span></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-08-20 14:51 GMT+02:00 Jim via Personal_Submersibles <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank">personal_submersibles@psubs.<wbr>org</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Hello Peter,</div><div>Welcome to the group. Could you add a column containing the appropriate conversion formulae to render the values in metric?</div><div>Jim<br><br>Sent from my iPad</div><span><div><br>On Aug 20, 2016, at 7:32 AM, Sean T. Stevenson via Personal_Submersibles <<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank">personal_submersibles@psubs.o<wbr>rg</a>> wrote:<br><br></div></span><blockquote type="cite"><div><span><p dir="ltr">There is nothing specific to imperial / US standard units about the equations given in the ABS rules. They work with any self-consistent set of units, and in fact my own software tracks dimensionality using MKS / SI units exclusively.</p>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi Alec, <br><br>As I understanded that, the D cell is there for another section of different diametre, my design has only one D0 - 1800 mm . <br>I also have issues with ABS rules as they are made according to imperial system, It would be desirable to have the calculations in my assignment in metric system.<br><br>Thank You for quick response; Petar</div></span><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span>2016-08-20 13:56 GMT+02:00 Alec Smyth via Personal_Submersibles <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank">personal_submersibles@psubs.o<wbr>rg</a>></span>:<br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Peter,<div><br></div><div>Welcome, and I wish I'd had that assignment in college! The blue cells are calculated, but for that to happen you need to populate the white ones. For example on your first screen shot, the material
properties in column D have not been entered. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Alec</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span><div><div>On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 6:16 AM, Petar Topljak via Personal_Submersibles <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank">personal_submersibles@psubs.o<wbr>rg</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div dir="ltr">Hi everyone, <div><br></div><div><span>My name is Petar and I am coming from Rijeka, Croatia. I am designing 1-ATM one man submersible as a project for one of my subjects at my university. <br><br></span>The idea is to design a pressure hull that can safely whitstand pressure at 150 meters. Procedure is to design submersible according to ABS (or ASME or any else classification company) rules, create model
using 3d modelling software and do a finite element analysis of the model. <span><br><br>The problems I ran into are in using the spreadsheet, as there are some parameters that are not defined in the ABS rules, or I am not able to find them or understand them due to my english skills, + we use metric system, so changing creates additional problems. <br><br><br>I understand the classic questions asked about the lobes and coefficients (eta), but i had issues with Tw, Lw Lf and tf parametres - "mail3 stiffener.png" am I doing it right ? <br><br>I am also sending you screenshots of my sheet, so you can check it if you like and alert me for any possible mistakes. <br><br>Thank You in advance, Petar</span></div></div>
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