Patel et al., International Jounal of Advanced Engineering Technology of column is also the important part to understand the behaviour of tank. A reinforced elevated water tank with different types of column system with full water level in the container has been considered for the E-ISSN 0976-3945 as shown in Table 3,withacceleration transverse ‘component of four earthquakes as shown in Figure 4. Table2.Column dimension considering different panel and pattern present study. The storage capacity of water tank is cae | _ lane gar p 1000 m’.Finite element model of elevated water tank [st is prepared in SAP2000, Columns and bracings inthe = [a frame type support system are modelled as frame Sa va [as | ae elements (with six degrees of freedom per node) [rev ser) os [ax Conical part, bottom and top domes and container [et st sa | ‘ walls are modelled with thin shell elements (with a | come | oe « B four nodes and six degrees of freedom per node) = ve [nase te Other dimensions of the elevated tanks are illustrated sme os fos [we fo in Table 1. SpaeT | Circle [07S = 0 ® ‘Table 1.Structural Data for Basic Frame Type 3 atte Staging [Renee] os [ar | it Caco Tom stn os pare Ti weight of noe ZEN Thins of Top Dome asm Biss of op Doe am Size of Top Ring ea ism Diane tn Tse Tigh of Cynara an Thins of Cylindrical a a5 Siz of Mille Ring Bear Tam 06m ise of Conc dome Zs Thine of Conical asm Rise of Baton doe To Thins of Boor Se aa [02 Number of Cou z Se o ce oS mOS Size of Boom Caesar Oar —— [Tm 12 Distance einen fermidne Bag [Sm Tei of Sasing above Foundation —[ Tom mpi i err Pr) The configuration of staging is nothing but the arrangements of columns and bracings in particular pattern. The orientation and section of column is also important in deciding the configuration for staging [4]. Several types of configuration can generate by changing the arrangement and pattern of columns.In the present study three types of shapes have been considered like circular, square and rectangle. In rectangular type of column different two type of arrangement are considered in line of outer periphery and perpendicular to outer periphery named as rect_wide and rect_deep respectively. The arrangement of column on outer periphery of staging is as shown in Figure 4. The dimension of the different type of column on outer periphery of staging with variation in panel is shown in Table 2. oo o ote ramet we oe aad (@) Cireular column (4) Squareeolumn os & *% + She 2 Ky es . (€) Rect deep column —(d)Rect_wide column Figure 4,Arrangement of different type of column ‘on outer periphery of staging Total four numbers of earthquake records were used; the maximum PGA on the basis of acceleration gravity for Imperial Valley (EI Centro) (1979), Northridge (1994), Kobe (1995) and Loma Prieta (1989) are 0314, 0.410, 0.509 and 0.644 respectively. Properties of recorded earthquakes are ABTIVoLIIV Issue IV/Oct.-Dee,, 2012/60-63 Figure 4, Acceleration transverse component of ‘earthquake of Earthquake records 1000 m’ capacity and supported by fixed base frame type staging system with different column proportionality has been considered. With considering two-mass water model, seismic responses including sloshing displacement and displacement of tank at various locations from bottom to top were assessed under four earthquake records. The seismic responses of tank have been determined using time history analysis in three cases, i.e. 3-panel, 4-panel, S-panel. The result of sloshing displacement under various time history records are shown in Table 4. Figure 5 shows the graph containing Sloshing displacement for different column proportionality and time history records. The obtained results are summarized as follows: ‘© The critical response depends on the earthquake characteristics and particularly frequency content of earthquake records. ‘+ Sloshing displacement is inerease with the increase in the panel number and increase against high frequency earthquake.