Thin-walled tapered conformable low-pressure tanks: Concept and principles KU Leuven
In pressure tank design, structural efficiency or the ratio of pressurized volume to structural mass is fundamental and implies a specific shape, such as a cylindrical or spherical layout. However, this axi-symmetric layout may be not conform to the enveloping shape. Previous investigations developed a conformable tank concept with a multi-bubble axi-symmetric layout, called a multi-lobe, multi-cell or multi-bubble tank, but structural design ...