[PSUBS-MAILIST] many questions from a rookie

[Emile van Essen via Personal_Submersibles]

FEA is one of the few things I leave to sombody else. The accurate programs
are expensive and need a supercomputer..

 

Emile

 

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Van: Personal_Submersibles [mailto:personal_submersibles-bounces at psubs.org]
Namens Alan James via Personal_Submersibles
Verzonden: dinsdag 24 februari 2015 0:49
Aan: Personal Submersibles General Discussion
Onderwerp: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] many questions from a rookie

 

Hi Havard,

a couple of years ago I looked at ZW cad & it was economical but didn't have
an FEA option.

It might have changed since.

You could export the file to another program (can't remember it's name) but
this program was

very expensive.

I bought Rhino 5 & two plug ins, "Orca" (marine design) & scan & solve,
which is a basic FEA

program. I am doubtful of the accuracy of scan & solve as I questioned one
of their experts

& he was very evasive on how accurate the program was. It is generally
thought best to leave 

FEA up to the experts.

Emile touched on your question about pressure build up. Oxygen is fed in at
the same rate as

you consume it & is breathed out in identical volume as CO2. The CO2 is
removed in the CO2

scrubber.

Alan

 

 

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From: Håvard Hardy via Personal_Submersibles
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Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 9:18 AM
Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] many questions from a rookie

 

i allways wantet to build a sub, but still got allot of research to do..
there is a few things i could not find the answer in the internet, so have
to ask here.

 

i was thinking of building a small 1 man sub. i used the psub
<http://www.psubs.org/design/unstiffcyl> Unstiffened Cylinder Calculator to
check how thick the hull hadd to be, to get to 200 meters, the hull have to
be over 15mm thick.. so thought maybe i should use ribbs to get it thinner,
but dont know how to calculate whit ribs, and how to find out how many ribs
i need, and spacing betwen them.

 

a few other tecnical things i dont know.

 

How to you keep the pressure not to rise in the pressure hull? you need
oxygen, so the pressure will rise?..

 

and how do you get the propeler shaft thru the hull, and not get water in
the sub. easy on a boat where the pressure is not so big, but att 500 feet?

 

does somone sell the through hulls to get wires thru the pressure hull? or
do i have to make on my own?

 

if the pressure hull have a operation deapth off 500 feet, how do i find out
how thick the Viewports have to be..

 

and does anyone no of a good drawing program to draw the sub? have only made
it on paper.. need to make on the computer and get a FEA.

 

probably have many other things coming :)

 

Håvard.


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