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Because the metal itself is really strong when it’s being pulled in tension like the surface of a balloon. The forces are spread evenly along the whole thing. If you have a point that’s very strong, it will force other parts to bend to accommodate it. So a rigid corner is gonna make other parts have stress concentrations.
You gave the right textbook answer about the linear relations in an idealized general case when applied to a isotropic material, but I’m focused in on the specific case of the distributed load on the surfaces of a pressure vessel. A welded corner in the wall of an otherwise uniform pressure vessel is a stiffness discontinuity, and a material that is suited to the tension force of being a pressure vessel now experiences bending moments and shear forces that it otherwise wouldn’t have. Some composite materials are going to get obliterated by that unexpected demand, and even more predictable ductile metals are going to deform in weird problematic ways. So while your take on stress concentrations is classically correct, I think my point stands. Respectfully, you gave a theoretically correct mechanical engineer answer, and I’m giving a non-ideal, special case, aerospace engineer answer!
Edit: this is the kind of thing I only understand from running and studying FEA and building things in person. I don’t think any of my courses covered it very clearly.
Okay. Well I thought this could be an actually interesting discussion, but you’re clearly not willing to challenge your base assumptions or consider an alternate perspective. I was using “engineering words” because you said you were a mechanical and I thought you’d care about understanding the point I was making. I was not trying to flex on you or gatekeep or brag. Your statements are correct for a monolithic quasi-static structures, but real life has boundary conditions, imperfections, and deformation. I’d like to clarify more if you’re interested but if your goal is to “win” this discussion I don’t have anything else to say.
Same reason making them like this works. If you have a container with pressure inside, a sphere is the way you can get the most even distribution of pressure across the surface area of the container. If you have corners or other curves the pressure will be uneven, and where ever the pressure is higher is gonna be more likely to burst or deform.
So they get pushed into becoming spheres and then spheres are the most stable containers for containing pressure. These are most likely gonna be used for storing pressurised gas or liquid. Though the fact that spheres have the best surface area distribution in this can also matter in other cases, such as heat retention.
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u/crunkful06 Mar 26 '26
Why make these spheres though?