ABSTRACT
In addition to issues involving stresses in pressurized components, there are a few specialized topics of related interest. These include such matters as dilation of cylinders, nested cylinder effects, and the effectiveness of circumferential stiffeners. In some of these cases, even well-established formulas and practices have speculative features despite the continuing progress in design technology. In this chapter, we briefly consider these problems, beginning with the dilation of closed cylinders.
