VISVESVARAYA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

Jnanasangama, Belgaum- 590018

A PRESENTATION ON PROJECT PHASE-1

(16SEC302P)
ON
“EFFECT OF SLOSHING OF WATER IN
HYDRO CYCLONE SUBJECTED TO
EARTHQUAKE”

Submitted in Partial fulfillment for the requirements of ---- Sem M.Tech – Structural Engineering
Submitted by
PRAVEEN SHRESTHA
USN: 1NT16CSE20
Under the Guidance of
Internal guide
Mr. Shreyas A V
Asst. Professor
Civil Engineering Department
DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
 Overview
• Introduction
• Literature review
• Technology and Methodology
• Experimental Analysis
• Details of experimental work
• References
 Introduction
• A hydro cyclone is a static device that applies centrifugal force
to a flowing liquid mixture so as to promote the separation of
heavy and light components used in hydropower instead of de
sanding basin.
• The hydro cyclone is a closed vessel designed to convert
incoming liquid velocity into rotary motion creating
centrifugal force in the liquid.
• Heavy components move outward toward the wall of the
vessel where they are agglomerate and spiral down the wall
to the outlet at the bottom of the vessel. Light components
move toward the axis of the hydro cyclone where they move
up toward the overflow outlet at the top of the vessel.
 Introduction (cont.)
• SLOSHING refers to the movement of the free surface of a liquid
due to the movement of its container.
• Liquid sloshing is an important factor to be considered in various
areas such as aircraft fuel tank designs, tankers transporting water
and other liquids, sloshing of cargo in ships etc.
• A hydro cyclone is another such container of large volume of water
where sloshing forces can be significant when subjected to lateral
deflections.
• The large liquid movement during sloshing can result in high impact
stresses in the walls of the tank and in extreme cases can cause
sufficient moment to negatively affect the stability of the
supporting structure.
 Literature Review

• Erol Kalkan and Vladimir Graizer ASCE 2007

“Coupled Tilt and Translational Ground Motion Response
Spectra” In this paper dynamic response of structures subjected
to earthquake induced base excitations are often amplified by
ignoring the tilt components of ground motion. However, close
to the earthquake source, tilting of the ground surface may
become significant. Based on strong-motion records at the
Pacoima Dam–upper left abutment obtained during the 1994
Northridge Earthquake, residual tilt reached 3.1° in the N45°E
direction while the dynamic tilt remained higher.
 Literature Review

• P. Muthu vijay & Amar prakash (Aug 2014)

“Sloshing effect on overhead liquid storage tank” In this paper
present the analysis to study the effect of sloshing in overhead
liquid storage tank. In such structure a large mass concentrated
at the top of slender supporting structure makes the structure
vulnerable to horizontal forces e.g. due to find out the design
parameter for seismic analysis and also the importance in the
sloshing effect consideration during the design. Here an elevated
in the type water tank is analyzed and designed
 Literature Review

• S. Bozorgmehrnia1*, M.M. Ranjbar2 and R. Madandoust2

“Seismic Behavior Assessment of Concrete Elevated Water Tank”
In this paper dynamic behavior differs greatly comparison with
other structures. In this research, a sample of reinforced
concrete elevated water tank, with 900 cubic meters capacity,
Exposed to three pair of earthquake records have been studied
and analyzed in time history using mechanical and finite-element
modeling technique. The liquid mass of tank is modeled as
lumped masses known as sloshing mass, or impulsive mass.
 Literature Review
• M. V. Waghmare, S.N.Madhekar
“Behavior of Elevated Water Tank under Sloshing Effect” In this paper
most of the failures of large tanks after earthquakes are suspected to
have resulted from the dynamic buckling caused by overturning
moments of seismically induced liquid inertia and surface slosh waves.
Recent earthquakes have shown that liquid storage tanks are found to
be vulnerable to damage. Current knowledge about the behavior of
liquid storage tank is extensive, but many of the analytical and
theoretical results are for tanks without roof systems and include
number of simplifying assumptions like small deformation and linear
elastic material property nonlinear conditions, sloshing heights are
larger than that those calculated under linear condition. In the present
study sloshing effect in elevated water tank is studied by using Finite
Element Method (FEM).
 Technology and Methodology

• To study the effects of sloshing, a constant depth hydro

cyclone with steel tank and steel framed structure is modeled.
The water in the tank is modeled initially as a static body and
the stresses developed on the supporting structure and the
tank walls are determined. The sloshing of water is then
modeled and the increase in stresses developed due to
sloshing is determined. The effect on sloshing on deflection of
the structure, critical fill level, and direction of application of
the earthquake acceleration is also studied. This project is
further extended to the effects of sloshing in a rectangular
tank in a symmetric building. Modeling and analysis is done
using etabs.
 Experimental Analysis

• Modeling
 Experimental Analysis

• Modeling
 Experimental Analysis

• Modeling
 Experimental Analysis
• Targeted results;
• Effect of direction of application of earthquake load on
sloshing
• Effect of sloshing on deflection of the structure
 References
• [1] Sajjad Sameer and Sudhir K, Lateral Load Analysis for
Elevated Water Tanks, ASCE, Vol 120, May 1994, pp 1375-
1394
• [2] Harry W.Shenton and Francis P.Hampton, Seismic
Response of Elevated Water Tanks, ASCE, Vol 125, Sept
1999, pp 965-976
• [3] M Bhandari and Karan Deep Singh, Comparitive Study
of Design of Water Tank, IJETAE, Vol 4, Nov 2014, pp 231-
238
• [4] Ranjit Singh. et al., Design of Intze Tank in Perspective
of Revision IS: 3370, IJSET, Vol 3, Sept 2014, pp 1193-1197
• [5] Muhammad Jamil Ahmad. et al., Use of Water Tank for
Reinforced Concrete Structures, Springer, Vol 41, June 2016,
pp 4953-4965
• [6] Durgesh C Rai, Performance of Elevated Water Tanks in
Earthquake, IIT, Vol 3, Sept 2013, pp 421-429