Question: The students in the Aerospace Engineering concentration are concerned that the Boeing 7 3 7 was not designed properly. When pressurized at cruising altitude the

The students in the Aerospace Engineering concentration are concerned that the Boeing 737 was not designed properly. When pressurized at cruising altitude the internal pressure in the fuselage is 0.5 bar relative to the outside pressure, resulting a hoop (circumferential) stress. The fuselage has a diameter of 4 m and the skin has a thickness of 8 mm. The dimensions of the window and the corner curvature are shown in the Figure. For this shape, the critical geometry, c, is half of the window width, The engineers determine that the aluminum used is 6061-6 and looked used EduPack to find that the yield strength is 300 MPa and the fracture toughness is 1.3 MPa.m^(1)/(2). Per FAA guidelines, the maximum allowable stress is 100 MPa. The critical dimension, c, is (1)/(2) of the window width.
a. Calculate the nominal hoop stress. Is 5 mm a proper radius for the corners of the window (meet the FAA guidelines)?
b. To be safer, the students recommend that the radius of the corner be changed to 20 mm. How much below the allowable stress is the proposed design?
c. The students don't want passengers to fall to their death, so they assume that a crack can form at the corner of the window that has an effective length of 0.08 m. What stress can it withstand without fast fracture of the crack? Is it safe enough for passengers?

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