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The thickness of the centaur tanks were between 0.35 and 0.8mm (the thickest being on the lowest part of the tank)

Thanks all, that's good info. I'd love to sit down and chat with an engineer from the centaur era !

I read it a couple of years ago (very good book). The details are a bit scattered everywhere in the document although. I was hoping for a more technical apparatus (with drawings?). Most info I have on the design comes from Huzel and Huang in Modern Engineering design for Liquid-propellant rockets.

Hello, I am looking for technical information on the design of pressure-stabilized tank or "balloon tank". That kind of tank was used for the propellants of the centaur upper stage rocket. I have found a few documents online but I was wondering of some people might have experience with that...

Oh by the way, what would be the "bible" for designing a pressure vessel?

Hey Duwe6, thanks for your reply. I myself am an aerospace engineer but was hoping that that kind of design was sometime used in 'land applications' (and would have therefore some standards/design methodology). I'll continue my journey in aerospace forums then :-)

Hello, I am looking for technical information on the design of pressure-stabilized tank or "balloon tank". That kind of tank was used for the propellants of the centaur upper stage rocket. I have found a few documents online but I was wondering of some people might have experience with that...

Hey Ed,would you mind when you have a few minutes do a basic (like paint) drawing to show the general idea? Not sure I get exactly what you mean.

Yep that's approximately what I'm doing with mitigate result. Thanks though

Temperature would be a max of 1600K for 3sec. The thing can bleed and not be perfectly sealed, it's not a big deal. I just need to get a "best effort" in the first place (and by that I mean as soon as possible).

Hello, I'm working with some ceramic tubes of small diameter (~0.08"OD) that I need to implement in a heat exchanger. I'm looking for documentation or design advise on how I could connect/seal them to a tubesheet as I don't have lot of experience in this. Pressure expected are around 200psi...

Forgot to add: the PFA epoxy I had was not good at all, it was just some regular epoxy and they have put lots of materials they "suppose they can bond" in the description. I got another kit more "professional", with an etcher and a special 2-tubes epoxy, for 130 bucks. I still need to try that...

Thanks molten metal. I'm using stuff I'm not extremely familiar with and nor are my colleagues, so it's good to have some (constructive) input!

Yep, tthat's what I'm using now: a crimp clamp. It does the trick !

Hello, I have some flexible tubes of PFA (1/8" OD 1/16"ID) that I need to bond to a larger PFA tube (rigid). I was wondering what was the best way to do that. I just ordered some epoxy for PFA and I was also looking into plastic welding. What would be your advise on the best way to do that? The...