CALCULATION OF STRESSES AND STRAINS
DEVELOPING IN FREEZING OF WATER
IN CLOSED VESSELS

M. K. Zhekamukhov and Kh. B. Shokarov

UDC 536.44:539.37/38

The pressures in the liquid core and the breaking stresses 
in vessel walls developing in symmetric freezing of water in spherically 
and cylindrically shaped bottles are calculated. It is shown that 
at surface temperatures of the bottle above 20oC the water in it freezes 
only partially; at lower temperatures, the pressure in the liquid 
core attains a maximum value of about 2000 atm, which is preserved 
until the water freezes completely.

Kabardino-Balkar State University, Nal'chik, Russia; email: 
hasanby@mail.ru. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 
76, No. 2, pp. 178-187, March-April, 2003. Original article 
submitted January 4, 2002; revision submitted November 11, 2002.