Buckling of oil storage tanks in SPPL tank farm during the 1979 Imperial Valley earthquake

Journal Article · Fri May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1987 · J. Pressure Vessel Technol.; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1115/1.3264904· OSTI ID:6310323

Shih, C F; Babcock, C D

An oil storage tank that suffered damage during the 1979 Imperial Valley earthquake is studied using a laboratory model. The tank is unanchored and includes a floating roof. The tank is subjected to a single horizontal axis base excitation. Buckling is studied under both harmonic and simulated earthquake base motion. The model buckling results are in reasonable agreement with the field observations. It was also found that the floating roof has no effect on the buckling behavior. Comparison with the API design provisions shows that the empirical model used as the basis of the code for both tip-over and bucking have little resemblance to the actual tank behavior.

• Research Organization: Jet Propulsion Lab., CA
• OSTI ID: 6310323
• Journal Information: J. Pressure Vessel Technol.; (United States), Journal Name: J. Pressure Vessel Technol.; (United States) Vol. 109:2; ISSN JPVTA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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CALIFORNIA
CONTAINERS
DAMAGE
DATA ANALYSIS
DEFORMATION
EARTHQUAKES
ENERGY SOURCES
ENERGY-LEVEL TRANSITIONS
EXCITATION
FEDERAL REGION IX
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HARMONICS
IMPERIAL VALLEY
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
NORTH AMERICA
OSCILLATIONS
PETROLEUM
SEISMIC EFFECTS
SEISMIC EVENTS
STORAGE
STORAGE FACILITIES
TANKS
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