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http://dx.doi.org/10.7731/KIFSE.55a324ba

Stability Analysis of the Foundation of Hazardous Material Storage Tank for Preventing Leakage Accidents  

Lim, Jong-Jin (Korea Fire Institute)
Ku, Jae-Hyun (Department of Fire Safety Management, Mokwon Univ.)
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Fire Science and Engineering / v.34, no.4, 2020 , pp. 96-100 More about this Journal
Abstract
The leakage of hazardous materials due to the defect in storage tank foundations is likely to cause tremendous fire disasters in the industry cluster area. Thus, adequate design and construction of the tank foundation is required for preventing tank leakage. In this study, four types of typical tank foundations were classified and modeled for 3D FEM analysis to perform stability evaluation on tank foundations. Furthermore, numerical analysis indicated that stress concentration just below the tank shells is 40 times that at the tank center. The settlement influence zone is about the tank radius and tank diameter in the horizontal and vertical directions, respectively. Thus, the appropriate guidelines for the design and construction of tank foundations were suggested via a comparison assessment of the numerical analysis results on the stress distribution and displacement of the tank foundations.
Keywords
Hazardous material; Storage tank foundation; FEM analysis; Leakage;
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