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Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Acrylic Dome



Hey Jason!

I know what you are talking about wanting to find suppliers of these kinds of things. I am finishing up a Metallugical & materials degree here at the University of Alabama. I have accepted a position in Savannah Georgia so that I may be by the coast. I love the water!!!

Anyway, I have a few websites devoted to acrylic windows and portholes. Some of these same companies have the capability of making customized shapes like domes, or semi-spherical portholes. I hope they help you out. As far as the books that you were talking about. I was lucky enough to find Manned Submersibles, and I do have the ABS rules book along with quite a few more if you ever need any specific calcutaions just ask. Here are those links...

Brad

http://www.blanson.com/blanson_html/aquaria_aquatics_port_window.html

http://main.wavecom.net/~rontini/diver.html

http://www.seamagine.com/

http://home.att.net/~alola/

http://www.marinewaypoints.com/market/submarines.shtml

http://itri.loyola.edu/subsea/

I hope they help

 

>From: "Jason Ness"
>Reply-To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
>To:
>Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Acrylic Dome
>Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 17:05:48 -0400
>
> I am new to the list, and I am still reading through all the archive information so I don't waste time with questions that have already been answered. My question is about acrylic domes, I am trying to get an idea of a formula for hemisphere, and what the Young's Modulus, Poisson's Ratio, and Yield Stress values are for acrylic and possibly fiberglass, I know it would vary a great deal with fiberglass, but I was thinking multible layups of unidirectional cloth in epoxy.
> I am still trying to locate a copy of the elusive Manned Submersibles for my very own, but I wanted to here for those who have dry subs, what thickness and diameter they are using for what rated depths, the Kittredge subs use a hemisphere.
> One thought that I had after reading the archives and hearing many "sub stuck in the mud stories" I had an idea, it is probably over simplistic but why not run a high pressure hard line (split one off the line used to fill soft ballast tanks) to a point under the subs hull, then if you did get caught in "mud suction" you could squirt high pressure bubbles from under the sub to blast away the mud, this coupled with a little positive boyancy should free you in short order. If anyone is interested I am designing a one person dry sub down here in Florida, the goal (after working on Karl Stanley's monster yellow sub) light weight and manuverability, my initial calculations put it at just under 1000 lbs dry weight and a submerged displacement of 1700 lbs. There is alot a intelligence and knowlege in this group and I feel like the proverbial tadpole.
>Jason Ness

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