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Complex of Hydraulic Pressure Test Tanks
This family of hyperbaric test tanks serves
for experimental research on strength characteristics of deepwater
vehicle hulls
| FACILITY SPECIFICATIONS
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DK - 600 |
DK - 1000 |
K - 1000 |
| Inner diameter, m |
3.2 |
1.8 |
1.2 |
| Usable depth, m |
9.5 |
5.5 |
2.8 |
| Max. Pressure, 106 N/m2
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100 |
150 |
140 |
| Cyclic pressure, 106
N/m2 |
60 |
100 |
100 |
These test facilities enable to simulate
diving to the ultimate depths of the World Ocean |
Placing a structure into the pressure tank
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A newly built Rus-series
submersible vehicle during preparations for pressure tank
testing
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The tanks are fitted with a computer-aided
control system and with a variety of measurement and procession
instrumentation for strains and acoustic emission signals. These
provisions make it possible to monitor and analyse hull conditions
directly during the tests
Numerous model and full-scale tests performed in the DK test
tanks included re-certification of pressure hulls and structures
of Paisis-7 and Paisis-11 submersibles designed
to diving depths of 2km, establishing the actual maximum depth
for Rift pressure hulls and checking the strength of hulls for
the Rus series of underwater vehicles capable of diving to 6km
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