Rocking response of tanks containing two liquids
Liquid storage tanks are important components of industrial facilities and, when located in earthquake prone regions, should be designed to withstand the earthquakes to which they may be subjected. There are cases in which the density of the tank content is not uniform. For such cases, the dynamic responses of tanks containing liquids with different densities must be studied. A study on the dynamic response of upright circular cylindrical liquid-storage tanks containing two different liquids under a rock base motion with an arbitrary temporal variation is presented. Only rigid tanks were studied. The response quantities examined include the hydrodynamic pressure, sloshing wave height and the associated frequencies, base shear and moments. Each of these response quantities is expressed as the sum of the so-called impulsive component and convective component. Unlike the case of tanks containing one liquid, in which the response is controlled by one parameter, height-to-radius ratio, the response of tanks containing two different liquids are controlled by three parameters: height-to-radius ratio, and mass density ratio and height ratio of the two liquids. The interrelationship of the responses of the tank-liquid system to rocking and lateral base excitations is established by examining numerical results extensively. It is found that some of the response quantities for a tank-liquid system under a rocking base motion can be determined from the corresponding response quantities for an identical tank under a horizontal base motion.
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Lab., IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-31109-ENG-38
- OSTI ID:
- 10176834
- Report Number(s):
- ANL/RE--93/5; ON: DE93018399
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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420205
ACCELERATION
BOUNDARY CONDITIONS
DENSITY
EARTHQUAKES
EQUATIONS
FLEXIBILITY
FOUNDATIONS
HYDRODYNAMICS
LIQUIDS
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
RESPONSE FUNCTIONS
SEISMIC EFFECTS
SHEAR PROPERTIES
SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS
STORAGE FACILITIES
TANKS
TRANSPORT AND STORAGE FACILITIES
VARIATIONS
WAVE PROPAGATION