The Effect of Shape on the Thermal Endurance of Cylindrical Glass Containers.

JSGT 1943 V27 T077-T093

Theoretical investigations on the effect of shape on the stress systems set up by thermal gradients are discussed and the results applied to the problem of the thermal endurance of cylindrical glass containers. The stress systems at the mouth of a container and at the junction of the cylinder and the base are considered, although insufficiency of both theoretical knowledge and experimental data permits only of a qualitative assessment of their values. In the second part the predictions from theoretical work are compared with experimental results of tests on glass containers and a good measure of agreement found.

J. B. Murgatroyd