[Ninth Symposium on Eatiquake Engheeing ( 9SEE - 90), Roorkee, Deceber 14-16 1990, Vol
Seismic Design of Frame Staging for Elevated Water Tanks
Jain, Sudhir K.
Sameer, U.S.”
Tassistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering,
indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur-208016
‘Lecturer, Department of Applied Mechanics, Karnataka Regional Engineering College, Surathkal
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SYNOPSIS
1.5. code provigiona for aseiamic aeaign of elevated water tanka
have been reviewed. It la seen that, due to absence of a suitable value
of performance fuctor for tanks, the code provides for rather low seismic
design force for these atructurea. Simple expreaelone are given which
allow calculation of ataging stiffness, and hence the time period, while
incorporating beam flexibility.
4. INTRODUCTION
In India the selamlc deaign criteria is provided by 15:1893-1984
(40) which gives mininum loading atandarde and 18:4326-1976 (11) which
containa deaign and detailing requirementa for conatruction of bulldinga.
18:11682-1985 (12) gives the criteria for design of RCC staging of auch
eteuctures. In thie paper provisions pertaining ta aaatamic deaien af
elevated vater tovers are reviewed and aeveral suggestions given for
making these more rational. The deaign seiemic force for the water tank
depends on ite flexibility and hence on the time period. Many engineere
In the country tend to evaluate the time period by taking the column
atiffneas aa 12Et/L3 which i# baged on the asaumption of bracing beama
being infinitely cigid. In practice these beams are quite flexible and
therefore the above assumption very such overestimates the etaging
stiffness. An approximate procedure is presented for calculation of
staging stiffness, and hence time period, giving due conalderation to the
beam flexibility
4-1132, REVIEW OF INDIAN CODAL PROVISIONS
2.1 Lateral Design Force
18:1893 requires that the design lateral force shall be taken as F =
a,U; where a, BIE,S,/a; @ = coefficient depending upon the
9011-foundation syste B= aelemic zone factor;
and S,/q = average acceleration coefficient obtained from acceleration
performance factor, K, which the code
uses for computing base shear for buildings, 1a absent. Thia implies that
; I= importance facto:
apectra given in the code. Heri
K 1a 1.0 for the elevated vater tovere which ia aleo the valug/ used for
bulldings vith ductile ao
the elevated tank type structures have lover energy absorbing capacity
nt realeting frames. Thia ia unreasonable ae
and poor ductility as compared to those in ductile’ moment resisting
frame bulldinga. The all over the world prescribe a
performance factor which Ia 2.5 to 4.0 times higher for elevated water
tanks than that for the ductile buildings. Thus while the lateral design
force prescribed for buildings in Indian codes is of about the same order
that in the other codes for zonea of comparable selemicity; the deeign
lateral force provided by Indian code for elevated tanke ia far below
that by seismic codes in other countries. Hence it ie nec:
lamic cod:
ary to
Introduce a auitable value of performance factor, say 3.0, for elevated
tanke in 1S:1893.
ree of Freedom Idealieation
2.2 Single D.
18:1892 auggeate a eingle degre:
tanks vhich is reasonable only for cloged tanke completely full of water.
For tanka with a fre
of freedom idealisation of elevated
water aucface tyo-mase idealigation (7) le
preferred. This view hae been supported by eeveral investigatora (1, 2,
3, 6, 9, 15, 17) based on experimental and computational observations.
Calewlationa for a fey tanks Indicate that the alngle degree of freedom
representation overestimates the lateral design force; the difference in
value depends on the geometrical properties of the tank and relative
atiffness of the staging. Hence, there le a good «
of freedom idealiaation in IS:1893 alec.
for incorporating
two degre:
2.3 Staging Stiffness and Time Period
In both eingle- and two-degree of freedom idealisations atiffnes:
the staging needs to be obtained for calculating the time period. It has
been emphasised that a design criteria must aleo include the procedure
for time period calculation (8). Thie is because there can be large
of
aig ivariation in time period calculated by different designers based on
different assumptiona and/or different procedures. The Handbook SP:
22-1982 (18) takes the column etiffneae = 12RI/L? which ssaumes
horizontal bracings to be infinitely rigid. However the bracing beams are
the stiffness
clearly not rigid and thie assumption overeatim
substantially. It ia auggeated that IS:1893 muat apecify that in time
period calculation bracing girders are not to be treated as rigid.
2.4 Hydrodynamic Pressure on Tank Valle
18:1893-1984 giv: formulae for determining thie presaure
letelbution due to impulsive preasure (and not that due fo convective
pressure) which are based on Ref (7) Hovever, the code must give
complete details of the equivalent mechanical analog model proposed by
Housner in the came publication. Further, clause 5.2.7.1 of the code
atatea that the convective presaurea can be ignored in comparigon with
can be a
the impulsive pressures. Hovever, the convective preseur
dominant factor for certain proportions of the tank and the structure.
Moreover, I8:11682-1985 clearly states that “whereever required the
affect of aurge due to vave formation of the water may be conaidered.”
Hence 1$:1893 must provide complete detaila of Housner‘s model and omit
the clause 5.2.7.1.
Tt Ja known that the a
substantially greater than tho
le e€fecta on flexible tanka are
Induced in aimilarly excited rigid tanks
(S, 20). Simple procedures for evaluating hydrodynamic force in flexible
tanks have been developed (5). It le di
about larger forcea Induced in flexible tanka and to provide procedure
ireable to caution the designer
for their analysia in the IS code or in SP:22.
2.5 Ductility Requirements
Ae ite title itaelf auggeata, 15:4326-1976 gives deaign requirementa
for bulldinge only. This makes many deeign engineere think that ductile
detailing 1a not required for elevated tanka even in zonee IV and V.
Hence the acope of IS: 4326-1976 aut be enlarged to alae include
etructures other than buildings. A figure in 1$:11682-1985 tates that
"where deaign selamic coefficient ie 0.05 or more reference to clausea
7.2 to 7.4 of 18:4326-1976 ahall be made to cater for ductility
requirement” Thia ia in right spirit. Hovever, the term “design aelaaic
soefflelent™ in ita present form la very confusing. IS:1893 defines the
4115horizontal selemic coefficient, a , in tvo ways which mean tvo different
things. The future editiona of these codes must be very clear and
specific on ductile detailing requirements for tanke
2.6 Design for Torsion
It has been recognised that it is impossible to prevent torsional
response in elevated water tovere (16, 19). The elevated towers
conatructed are seldom truly symmetric due to presence of atairca:
Further, during Intenge shaking, with fallure of one or two bracinge, the
it mandatory to
atructure will go into the toreion mode. SEAOC-1980 mak.
design elevated water towers for shear etresa developed due to horizontal
toraion resulting from an accidental eccentricity equal to 5% of the
largest lateral dimension. It is very much desirable for 1S:1893 to alac
require deaign for accidental torsion
3. STAGING STIFFNESS
Well known protal
thed (4) has been auitably developed to account
for the bracing flexibility and the three dimenaional behaviour of the
ateucture (13). The point of inflection is assumed to occur at the
aidepan of beama and columns. The compatibility requires thet lateral
deflection la aame in all the columna of a panel. Hence, the columna
share lateral force in proportion to their lateral atiffnesa. Conaidering
a column between two bracing levels (Fla. 1), the deflection In column,
A,» due to shear, V, can be calculated. This gives the lateral stiffness
of one column ae (13)
12et
v.18 .te
See a
me Sree Be Ee FT
winn 78, 7 EE | i
.
.
ee
ze tec tote a
oe BD Tbe
7
ye
See ye te ets a
isc co :
7
where Ey, E, = modulus of elasticity of beam and column, respectively;
I, I, = moment of Inertia of beam and coluan, reapectively; A = helant
4116of panel under considerations h,, hy = height of the panel just above and
the panel jJuat below the panel under conaideration, reapectively; WM, =
ting the column under congideration at the bracing
number of beans
level; L = apan of bracing girder; and a = angle the bracing girder makes
vith the direction of lateral force. Moat tank etagings have identical
bracing girdera and have equal panel heights. Moreover, the top end of
column in topmost panel and bottom end of column in bottommost panel is
fixed against rotation. Using these congiderations, column atifinesa can
be obtained as (13)
128 1 Ek,
cle ba
. Intermediate pancleS (4)
home gs fee ake |S
i ® [ te ne
1281, Bkpe °
A —— (top and bottom panels) (5)
h ba c
vnere Ek, .* Ek,,> Ekyy: k, = E,l,/hs and the summation ie from 1 to N,
To evaluate the stiffness of a panel, etiffneas of Individual columns may
be calculated from Eq. (4) or Eq. (5) and thia may be summed for all the
columna of that panel. |
A direct expreasion for the determination of panel atiffneas,
without calculating individual column stiffness, has been obtained by
further approximatione (13). For tank stagings with uniform panel height,
identical columna, identical bracing girders, and agauming that all the
columns are located on the periphery of one circle panel atiffness Lo
obtained
By
ole
128,10 ae
Kees ge [Pe] intermediate pane
= , te
Tt bh
BI
12E 1 LN, bb
x * Soe (te id dott 1a) a
panet = SE Le Ey] to and bottom panel
a aa
_ BKAMPLE
Consider the water tank in Example (6) of Handbook (SP:22) ignoring
ite diagonal bracings. The tank has 4 panels of height 4 m each (total
aayheight 16 m) with 8 columns Incated on a circle of radius 4.5 m. Column
gine ia 520 mm diameter. Beam aize ia asauued to be 200 ¥ 500 mm. Both
in tank
5
columna and beams are aaaumed to be of M20 concrete. The m
full condition le 9 ¥ 10° kg and in tank empty condition it ie 3 X 10
ka.
o af
Now, E, = B, = 5700 720 = 25,500 MPa; N, = 8; I, = 2.08 X 10° mm
T, = 3.59% 109 a"; h = 4,000 mm; and L = 3,534 mm. The moment of
Inertia has been calculated asauming gross uncracked section ignoring
ateel. Substituting th: Into Eqs. (6) and (7), the panel
atiffness ia obtained as 33,900 N/mm for the tvo Intermediate panela and
54,400 N/am for the tvo end panela. Thia givea the ataging atiffnesa aa
10,400 N/mm. On the other hand, If one were to treat the bracing girdere
as rigid, panel atiffnesa is obtained as 137,000 N/mm and the staging
atiffnesa aa 34,200 N/mm. Thia ataging etiffneea ie 3.3 timea what it
@hould be. The time period, for tank {411 condition, 1a 1.85 aee
evalu
considering beama flexible, and 1.02 sec otherwise. It is thua clear that
the beam flexibility could not be ignored.
Let thie tank be located in selamic zone V (F, = 0.40). Let @ = 1.0
and I = 1.5. For 5 % damping, S,/ @ = 0.11 for T = 1.02 sec and S, /e
0.06 for T = 1.85 sec. If staging ia deeigned treating the beans ae rigid
and with no performance factor, a = (7 IF, S, /g =0.066 and the deaign
lateral load V = a, = 594 KN. However, introducing performance factor x
3.0 and accounting for the beam flexibility, a, =K@ I F, 8, /e
0.108 and the deaign selamic force V = 972 kN. Thue the incre
in
design force for thia tank is only about 64% Thia Increase will be
reduced somevhat 1f tvo-degree of freedom ideallaation 1a adopted.
In the above example, beam length (L) and the column height (h) have
been taken on the basia of centre to centre distances. Thia Ignores the
additional stiftn
Joint
respectively.
provided by rigid member zones at beam-coluan
- To incorporate thia, one may take clear apan and clear height,
5. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
The Indian code provisions for
elemic design of elevated tanke
have been revieved. The code must include an appropriate value of
Performance factor, say 3.0, for calculation of seismic design force for
water tanka. An earthquake design criteria ia incomplete unless cl
411gspecifications are included on how to calculate time period. The code is
defficlent on thia. The Handbook (SP:22) aolves an example problem
treating the bracing beams ae infinitely rigid which ia unrealistic. The
code should alao give more detaile of the Houaner'a mechanical analog
model for hydrodynamic forces. Proviaion for eloshing of liquid ehould be
Included. The requirements regarding ductile detailing of tanka are vague
in the present form of codea and need to be clearly apecif{led. A method
flexibility and
nt type analysie hae been
for calculating the staging stiffn
including bei
without having to resort to finite ele:
Presented. The method is based on the well knoun portal method which hae
been suitably developed to incorporate the beam flexibility and the three
dimenaional behaviour of the staging.
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na Be = Ops Byz ees Bee
Point of inflection
eink of intiection
Fig. (1) Deflection Betueen Successive Joints
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