Development of new pressure vessel with new material for underwater vehicle

Tadahiro Hyakudome*, Satoshi Tsukioka, Ishibashi Shojiro, Yoshitaka Watanabe, Hiroshi Yoshida, Taro Aoki, Yasuhiro Aoki, Hirokazu Madarame, Tatsuya Takahashi, Tadayoshi Tsukeda

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We are developing several underwater vehicles. There is development of pressure vessels by new material as one of the element technology to develop underwater vehicles. In the case of electronics to use underwater, defer from when they used in the land, they need solid pressure vessels. The reason is because it has to protect electronics from water and water pressure. Particularly, water pressure is increasing according to depth, so the pressure vessels need to make strong. But strong vessels are very heavy weight. It is not good at treatment. Especially, a heavy pressure vessel makes energy efficiency worse for a deep and long cruising type vehicle. So we started research and development of magnesium alloy to apply as a new structure material to lighten of pressure vessels. Our development target is stronger than Titanium alloy (Ti-6A1-4V) of ratio strength (tensile strength/specific gravity) as strength of a pressure vessel. The Ti-6A1-4V is usually used lightweight and strong material for pressure vessel. In this paper, we report several results of estimation tests. We carried out estimation test about test pieces. And we made a small pressure vessel and carried out estimation tests about strength about this pressure vessel.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of The Seventeenth 2007 International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference, ISOPE 2007
Pages1126-1129
Number of pages4
StatePublished - 2007
Event17th 2007 International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference, ISOPE 2007 - Lisbon, Portugal
Duration: 2007/07/012007/07/06

Publication series

NameProceedings of the International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference
ISSN (Print)1098-6189
ISSN (Electronic)1555-1792

Conference

Conference17th 2007 International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference, ISOPE 2007
Country/TerritoryPortugal
CityLisbon
Period2007/07/012007/07/06

Keywords

  • Magnesium
  • New material
  • Pressure vessel
  • Underwater vehicle

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Energy Engineering and Power Technology
  • Ocean Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering

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