The frozen stress photoelastic technique was used to determine the inner—and outer—meridional, and hoop, stresses in 13 models. Most models were subjected to internal pressure, but gravity effects were also studied. The extreme values of all discontinuity stresses are presented.
The theoretical stress distributions in two models were calculated and compared with the experimental values. Fair agreement was found.
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