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dlooman
Ansys Employee

It looks like your cylinder will explode with the pressure you are specifying.  Your solution with large deflection off appears to have doubled the diameter of the cylinder.  That will double the hoop stress as well, so now the displacement will double.  This doubling will continue to failure.