A method of dimensioning a hooped tube intended to carry a fluid under pressure.
The hooped tube consists of a metal tube and of a reinforcing element wound around
the metal tube so as to hoop the tube. In a first stage, the method consists in
determining, according to a first series of criteria, the characteristics of the
metal tube without the hooping reinforcement that is wound around it at the end
of the manufacture process. The first series of criteria includes the resistance
to all the mechanical stresses applied to the hooped tube, i.e. compressive, bending,
collapse and tensile stresses, with the exception of the radial stresses due to
the internal pressure. In a second stage, the method consists in determining the
hooping characteristics so as to obtain a determined prestress field in the wall
of the hooped tube.
