<div dir="ltr">Hi Andre,<div><br></div><div>Very nice drawing and concept, I like the simplicity and it looks balanced. I would have the following observations:</div><div><br></div><div>- Check that you can actually get those hemispherical heads for a reasonable price. Hemispherical heads are far less common than elliptical. I was once shopping for endcaps and got the following quote: "The elliptical is $300, the hemispherical is $300 plus $4000 in tooling setup costs".</div><div><br></div><div>- Regarding the coning tower design (K250 in this case) it depends what you want the sub for. The problem with that tower is the low freeboard, which is fine for lakes but insufficient for open water. You cannot open a K250 hatch in the ocean in anything but flat calm conditions. Also, visibility out of a K250 dome hatch is not good, even though that might sound counter-intuitive. You are looking through the side of a dome, which means poor optics. The bow dome visibility will be wonderful, because you're looking through the apex. Or, of course, visibility <u>of the surface</u> will be good from the coning tower, but one only uses that upon surfacing.</div><div><br></div><div>- I would not worry too much about the boat being top heavy. In general, between low drop weights, low batteries, and high MBTs these little boats are extremely stable. You should be able to carry a significantly taller tower than that one given the hull beneath it. I'm not saying you should skip the stability calculations, I'm just saying I think you will find that the calculations prove you can carry a higher tower that will allow for flat viewports and increase freeboard. Another option is to put a cylindrical viewport on the K250 tower to bump it up. I haven't done that myself, but it could be done.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br>Alec </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 11:42 AM, André Eriksen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi guys!</div><div><br></div><div>Finally I can start building. Just rented a nice location outside town. This is the drawing of the sub. I want to have 400meters (1300ft) of max operating depth. The hull is 10mm (3/8") S355J2 steel. The ABS hull calculator is giving me 431,8m (1417ft) of depth, and 638,4m (2094ft) crush depth. Still have som FEA to do. Have to learn to use a new software since Autodesk Inventor don`t simulate buckling. Any thoughts on the design?</div><div>Do someone want to confirm my calculations?</div><div>Very excited to get started!</div><div>Sorry for the metric dimensions for you who are not custom to them.</div><div><br></div><div>I had a hard time figuring out the conning tower. I wanted it to go in one piece, but I want all the freeboard I can get and not get it too top heavy. Was thinking about going 20mm thick nozzle all the way up, but thinking I might get in trouble welding in the hatch seat ring. With 30mm I could do without welding in a seat ring, but it would be too top heavy. So decided to go with the Kittredge design, any thoughts on this? </div><div><br></div><div>Domes in top and front and saddle tanks.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Emile:</b> If you still want to press domes for me, can you give me the exact measurements I should have for the bow ring?</div><div><br></div><div>-André</div><img src="cid:ii_i5jqua4r0_14b3b85ceba9d11f" width="544" height="384"><br><br>
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