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Floating
buoyancy calculation for rafts made with capped tubes at the ends
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The app
returns the buoyancy thrust of a raft made with N pipes with length L
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Pipe mass
density
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rt
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(Kg/m3)
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Mass density of pipe fill-up fluid
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raria
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(Kg/m3)
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Mass density of water
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rh2o
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(Kg/m3)
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Number of pipes in the raft
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N
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( )
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Pipe length
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L
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(m)
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Pipe nominal diameter
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DN
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(mm)
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External pipe
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(mm)
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Pipe thickness
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(mm)
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SDR
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SDR
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Pipe internal
diameter
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Di
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(mm)
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Pipe internal
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Ri
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(mm)
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Raft sink
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a
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(mm)
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Distance of water
level from pipe center
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(mm)
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Load on raft
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(Kg)
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Unit
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Total
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Pipe volume
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Vt
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m3
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Pipe weight
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Kgp
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Unit volume of
internal fluid
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Varia
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m3
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Unit weight of internal fluid
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Paria
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Kgp
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Total load on raft
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Ptot
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Kgp
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Submerged pipe volume
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m3
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Buoyancy thrust
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Sg
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Kgp
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Ptot
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the buoyancy
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