Timeline for Why are engine blocks so robust apart from containing high pressure?
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| Mar 10, 2021 at 18:08 | history | edited | NMech |
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| Feb 18, 2021 at 16:35 | vote | accept | David Nolan | ||
| Dec 10, 2020 at 23:29 | comment | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | What happens AFTER the piston goes down? Where do the forces go next? Does anything need to counteract those forces? | |
| Dec 9, 2020 at 18:31 | answer | added | Mobius | timeline score: 4 | |
| Dec 9, 2020 at 11:32 | answer | added | Bassa | timeline score: 4 | |
| Dec 8, 2020 at 21:08 | answer | added | brichins | timeline score: 12 | |
| Dec 8, 2020 at 19:35 | comment | added | MonkeyZeus | @llama My vote is for mitigating engine shrapnel to the face/body in the event of failure. | |
| Dec 8, 2020 at 19:34 | comment | added | Criggie | Are you considering the water jacket/passages through the block or not ? | |
| Dec 8, 2020 at 19:10 | comment | added | Lamar Latrell | How much of a factor is the requirement for a large area for the gasket to work over? I.e. is the wall thinner again once you move away from the plane where the block splits? | |
| Dec 8, 2020 at 18:15 | comment | added | llama | Not an answer since it's just a guess: if a cylinder does fail in such a way that it explodes, you probably want something pretty bulky to contain it | |
| Dec 8, 2020 at 17:56 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Dec 8, 2020 at 15:18 | answer | added | NMech | timeline score: 44 | |
| Dec 8, 2020 at 13:25 | comment | added | mart | One approach to answer this uestion would be to look at a FE analysis of the stresses in an engine block and where they come from. I'm sure there are research papers out there. | |
| Dec 8, 2020 at 10:17 | answer | added | Solar Mike | timeline score: 15 | |
| Dec 8, 2020 at 9:53 | history | asked | David Nolan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |