Development of Composite Tank with Bonded Domes for Water Treatment Application

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The presented article focuses on the design of composite tank which consists of wound cylindrical part (manufactured by the means of filament winding) which is bonded together with domes (manufactured by spraying or light resin transfer molding - LRTM technology). Composite structure was manufactured from glass/polyester material system by company ACO Industries Tábor. The article describes the possibility of using a bonded joint on cylinder/dome interface. This possibility was experimentally tested on specimens and also numerical simulation of full-scale model (finite element method - FEM) was performed. Developed construction is used for underground water treatment application and it is loaded with both the weight of the retained water and the pressure of the soil and groundwater during its deep burying.

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Solid State Phenomena (Volume 382)

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