Re: Concrete Pressure Hulls

[Rick Lucertini <empiricus@sprint.ca>]

DaveIrons@aol.com wrote:

> A couple of books worth reading:
>
> "Concrete Pressure Hulls" part of an eleven volume set compiled by J. D.
> Stachiw, Naval
> Ocean Systems Center, 1990.
>
> Technical Report R-817
> Seafloor Construction Experiment, Seacon I
> T. R. Kretschmer
> February 1975
> Civil Engineering Laboratory Naval Construction Battalion Center Port
> Hueneme., CA
>
> David Irons

David - Thanks for the leads.

Some of us are interested in concrete as a pressure hull.  It MAY be much safer than
rolled steel for the amateur, especially in failure.  Would you be familiar with the
failure profile of this form of hull?  How catastrophic is catastrophic?  Do the
reports mention hearing stress sounds, bowing of the skin, visible cracking, etc.
prior to the THWUMP?  In other words, how much telegraphing is there?



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Rick Lucertini
empiricus@sprint.ca
(Vancouver, Canada)