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Design Concrete Ring Beam For Storage Tank PDF
Design Concrete Ring Beam For Storage Tank PDF
Feed Back You need to review tank drawings from foundation design point of view and check whether you have all the following
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Tank Dimension, Diameter and Height
Type of Roof (Floating or fixed roof), weight of roof
Detail of tank shell and weight of tank shell
Detail of tank base plate, location of base sump, annular plate and total weight of base plate
Detail of anchor bolt (BCD, no of bolt and dia of bolt) and anchor bolt fixing detail
Location and detail of man-hole at bottom portion of tank
Product density and and maximum height of product
Maximum height of water inside the tank for the hydrotest* Internal pressure or suction
Live load
Wind Shear and moment on tank shell
Seismic shear and moment on tank shell
You need to review Plot plan, Equipment location drawings and 3 -D Models and check whether you have all the
following information:
Step-3 : Loads on concrete ring beam and on the confined compacted granular fill in-side the ring:
You need to place concrete ring beam in such a way that outer surface of the tank shell should be the center of ring
beam. Consider the following loads on ring beam and on granular compacted fill inside the concrete ring.
Geotechnical Data:
Before starting the design, you need to collect the following information about soil:
Following load combimations can be used for soil bearing pressure check (at bottom of ring beam level) :
Load Combination: LC1 - Self weight of soil / Beam + Self weight of tank + Product weight + Internal pressure
Load Combination: LC2 - Self weight of soil / Beam + Self weight of tank + Product weight + Internal Pressure
+ Live Load
Load Combination: LC3 - Self weight of soil / Beam + Self weight of tank + Product weight + Internal pressure +
Wind Load
Load Combination: LC4 - Self weight of soil / Beam + Self weight of tank + Product weight + Internal pressure +
Seismic Load
Load Combination: LC5 - Self weight of soil / Beam + Self weight of tank + Product weight + Internal pressure +
Load Combination: UC1 - 1.7 x (Surcharge load of confined soil) + 1.7 x Surcharge load of (Self weight of tank
+ Product weight + Internal pressure)
Load Combination: UC2 - 1.7 x (Surcharge load of confined soil) + 1.7 x Surcharge load of (Self weight of tank
+ Product weight + Internal pressure)+ 1.4 x surcharge of Live Load
Load Combination: UC3 - 1.7 x (Surcharge load of confined soil) + 1.7 x Surcharge load of (Self weight of tank
+ test water weight)
The ring wall should be a minimum 300 mm thick and extend to a suitable bearing stratum, whch may be natural
ground or built-up compacted granular material. It should be 500 mm below ground level and extend below frost line.
The bearing capacity of the soil below the ringwall should be calculated using a strip foundation analysis loaded with
vertical load as mentioned in step-3.
API 650, appendix-B, clause B.4.2.2 states that it is desireable that the ringwall width be such that the average unit
soil loading under the ring wall will be approximately equal to the earth pressure under the confined earth at the same
depth (in maximum liquid level condition).
Once, the ringwall thickness is determined from above condition, it should be reviewed to ensure that excessive
quantities of concrete are not used for tanks with low liquid levels and that the permissible ground pressure for the
width of the wall is not exceeded.
Please note that, soil bearing pressure under the ring beam and under the confined earth at same depth should not
exceed the allowable soil bearing pressure for any of the above described load and any load combinations.
Step-5 : Determination of Hoop Tension on concrete ring beam and reinforcement calculation:
The concrete ring beam shall be designed for hoop tension. This hoop tension will be generated from surcharge load
due to confined soil and loads on confined soil.
Load calculation:
Surcharge due to confined soil: Sursoil = 0.5 x (height of ringwall)2 x soil density x Co-efficient of earth pressure at
rest (Ko)
Surcharge due to uniform load on confined soil: Surudl = (Load on confined soil) x (height of ringwall) x Co-efficient of
earth pressure at rest (Ko)
Total Hoop tension (T) = (Sursoil + Surudl) x (0.5 x centerline diameter of ring beam)
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Total Hoop tension (T) = (Sursoil + Surudl) x (0.5 x centerline diameter of ring beam)
Required area of Hoop reinforcement is, Ast = (Factored Hoop tension) / (0.9 x yeild stress of rebar---fy)
The ringwall must also be designed to take care circumferential bending moments due to the vertical load being
applied eccentrically to the ringwall center line.
The ringwall should be reinforced on both faces, with vertical reinforcement (stirrups) closest to the concrete surfaces.
Not more than 50% of the hoop reinforcement should be lapped at any one position.
Anchor bolt shall be checked per design criteria and Tenssion & Shear load supplied by vendor. If wind and shear
forces are not supllied by vendor, you need to calculate the anchorage load from API 650. Anchor bolt shall be
designed for ductility failure. If required, additional reinforcement to be provided around the anchor bolt.
I hope this page will be very helpful to you to understand the basic design of a concrete ring beam for storage tank.
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