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- Title
- Failure of Liquid Storage Tanks Due to Earthquake Excitation.
- File
- PB82215013.pdf
- Author(s)
- Shih, C. F.
- Source
- National Science Foundation, Washington, DC., cJanuary 1981, 215 p.
- Identifying Number(s)
- EERL-81-04
- Abstract
- The damage suffered by above-ground, liquid storage tanks during earthquakes is reviewed, and the forced vibration, failure criterion, and appropriate design procedures of those tanks under seismic excitation are examined. This is done using scale model testing coupled with simplified analysis procedures. Complete dynamic characterization of the structure and fluid/structure combination is carried out, allowing for the identification of the response and failure modes as well as the significance of tank parameters on these models.
- Keywords
- Mathematic models; Earthquake resistant structures; Storage tanks; Vibration; Time dependence; Cylindrical shells; Dynamic response; Earthquake engineering; Buckling; Soil structure interactions; Theses; Liquids; Static structural analysis; Earthquakes