• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.83-98
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• 2000

유연한 액체 저장탱크 내 유체의 부가질량 및 슬러싱 강성행렬을 도출하는 새로운 방법을 제시하였다. 비점성, 비압축성 이상유체를 표면 출렁임을 고려하여 경계요소법에 의하여 모델링하였다. 유체의 표면과 저장탱크 벽체의 접촉면과 같은 불연속 경계를 다루기 위해 특별한 과정을 도입하였다. 원통형 액체저장탱크의 지진응답해석에 적용하여 우수한 결과를 얻을 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.69-75
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• 1998

Because the collapse of liquid-storage tank structures under earthquakes brings out substantially more damages by indirect effects(continuous losses of economy and environmental disruption due to the spillage of toxic contents or pollutants) than direct economic losses of tanks and contents, it is an urgent matter to provide earthquake resistant design criteria in order to minimize such direct/indirect damages. In this paper, as fundamental works to prepare earthquake resistant design criteria for cylindrical liquid-storage tanks, analysis methods given in the Recommendations of New Zealand and Austria are reviewed and the applicabilities and problems of the two methods are set forth by comparison of the analysis results with a numerical example.

• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.19-28
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• 1999

While the codifying works or the earthquake resistant design codes for buildings and bridges have been carried out progressively, such works for tank structures are still at the beginning steps. In case of the collapse of tank structures under seismic actions, substantially severe damages are expected due to the spillage of tank contents in addition to the direct economic losses of tanks and contents. Therefore not only the analysis and verification methods for the dynamic behavior of tank structures but also the measures of minimizing the damage propagation should be included in the codes for tank structures. In this paper the design concepts and principles, the analysis and verification methods as well as the measures against the damage propagation are set forth, which are mandatory for the preparation of the earthquake resistant design codes for cylindrical liquid-storage steel tanks.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.133-141
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• 2024

Considering fluid-structure-soil interactions, a finite-element model for a liquid-storage tank is presented and the nonlinear earthquake response analysis is formulated. The tank structure is modeled considering shell elements with geometric and material nonlinearities. The fluid is represented by acoustic elements and combined with the structure using interface elements. To consider the soil-structure interactions, the near- and far-field regions of soil are modeled with solid elements and perfectly matched discrete layers, respectively. This approach is applied to the seismic fragility analysis of a 200,000 kL liquid-storage tank. The fragility curve is observed to be influenced by the amplification and filtering of rock outcrop motions at the site when the soil-structure interactions are considered.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.602-607
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• 2000

Fuel-storage tank is a representative example of liquid-structure interaction systems. In order to prevent the undesired structural failure by a variety of external loads, the reliable analysis of the dynamic response of such structural system is of a great importance. In this paper, we address the analytical study on free vibration of axisymmetric cylindrical fuel-storage tanks together with the parametric investigation of eigen-characteristics with respect to the relative fuel fill-height and the relative tank height. Numerical results illustrating theoretical results are also included.

• Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.293-301
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• 2016

Stability of cylindrical liquid storage tanks under seismic excitation could prevent catastrophic disaster of human life and economic loss. Domestic provisions on allowable compressive stress in tank walls to prohibit buckling failure are either incomplete or inconsistent, so foreign specifications such as API 650, BS EN 1998-4:2006 or New Zealand Standards are employed in stability design. In this study, response spectrum analyses are performed for plant tanks having different ratios of height to diameter or diameter to thickness to calculate hydrodynamic pressure on tank walls. Then nonlinear buckling analyses are conducted to estimate magnitude of buckling stress. By comparing analysis results with those from foreign design specifications, appropriate domestic design provisions are suggested.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.51-64
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• 1993

Base-isolated liquid storage tanks under seismic loading were tested by the Pseudo-dynamic test method. Substructuring technique in which a mixed integration method was adopted and the liquid tanks were simply modeled as a discrete system. This study gave experimental verification on the advantage of mounting the liquid tanks on base isolators in order to reduce the hydrodynamic forces on the tank wall.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.21-29
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• 1987

In this paper the liquid sloshing effects in vertical storage tanks under earthquake loadings are studied. The study focuses on the investigation of the effect of the flexibility of the tank wall on the hydrodynamic forces exerted on it. The tank structure is modelled using finite elements. The motion of the liquid is expressed by the Laplace equation. The equation of motion of the fluid shell system is formulated including the coupling effect between the shell motion and the sloshing motion. A procedure is developed to obtain the natural frequencies and the mode shapes of the sloshing motion as well as the shell vibration. Dynamic analyses have been carried out for several tanks with different dynamic characteristics utilizing the time history method as well as the response spectra method.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.147-154
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• 2002

The dynamic load caused by sloshing of internal fluid severely affects the structural and control stabilities of cylindrical liquid containers accelerating vertically. If the sloshing frequency of fluid is near the frequency of control system or the tank structure, large dynamic force and moment act on launching vehicles. For the suppression of such dynamic effects, generally flexible ring-type baffles are employed. In this paper, we perform the numerical analysis to evaluate the dynamic suppression effects of baffle. The parametric analysis is performed with respect to the baffle inner-hole diameter and two different baffle spacing types : equal spacing with respect to the tank and one with respect to the fluid height. The ALE (arbitrary Lagrangin-Eulerian) numerical method is adopted for the accurate and effective simulation of the hydrodynamic interaction between fluid and elastic structure.