Thick-wall Cylindrical Pressure Vessel Theory*

Cross-Section View with Internal and External Pressures

 

Equations

for both pressures
(inside and outside) 
for gage pressure
(inside only)

 

Stress Distribution in Wall

 

* from Mechanical Engineering Design, 5th Ed., by J.E. Shigley and C.R. Michke, McGraw-Hill, 1989, p59