DESIGN OF INTZE

WATER TANK

By:
Abhijeet Gupta
 INTRODUCTION
• Water is the lifeline for every living creature on this planet.

• Liquid storage tanks are used extensively by municipalities and

industries for water supply.

• Water tanks plays a vital role for public utility as well as

industrial structure having basic purpose to secure constant
water supply.
 DEMAND CALCULATION
The basic parameters to calculate the demand include:
• Population to be served
• Presence of industries and their kind
• The kind of lifestyle
• Availability of any other natural source of water

The total demand would then be ‘lpcd’ x population to be served

 TYPES OF TANKS
Water tanks can be classified under 3 heads:
• Elevated tanks supported on staging- provide a natural head
to water- circular, rectangular, spherical, Intze tanks, circular
tank with conical bottom
• Tanks resting on ground
• Underground tanks
 DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS
For all water storage structures, the main aspects to be given
special attention are
• IMPERVIOUSNESS OF CONCRETE: Permeability is mainly
dependent upon w/c ratio.

• CRACKING: to be ensured that concrete does not cracks on its

water face.

• MINIMUM STRENGTH OF CEMENT

• TENSILE STRESSES
 INTZE TANKS
• Intze principles are used

ADVANTAGES:
• In flat bottom, the thickness
and reinforcement is found
to be heavy.
• In domed bottom, though the
thickness and reinforcement
is normal, reinforcement in
the ring beam is found to be excessive.
COMPONENTS OF AN INTZE
TANK
 DESIGN OF INTZE TANKS
• Design code: IS3370

• The design of such tanks is done in two phases:

1. Membrane analysis – the members a re assumed to act
independent of each other. The members are therefore
subjected to only direct stresses and no bending moments are
introduced
2. Analysis taking into account continuity effect at joints-
deformations due to membrane stresses are first calculated
and equation of consistent deformations are formulated to
know the secondary stresses.
The final stresses are then found by adding the stresses due to
above 2 cases.
• .
 1) TOP SPHERICAL DOME
• The 2 forces are meridional thrust and hoop force.

• Radial bars are provided for meridional

thrust.

• Circular hoops are provided for hoop

force.
TOP RING BEAM B1
• The meridional thrust T1 of the top dome at the level of top
ring beam B1 has 2 components , i.e., vertical and horizontal

• The horizontal component induces hoop tension in beam B1

for which the beam shall be designed.
CYLINDRICAL SIDE WALLS
• These walls are assumed to be free at top and bottom. They
are subjected to hoop tension due to water load.

• The hoop tension increases with the depth.

• Thickness of the wall is ,hence, minimum at top and maximum

at the bottom.
BOTTOM RING BEAM B2
• The vertical load acting on ring beam B3 consists of load from
top dome, top ring beam B1, side wall and s/w of beam B3.
• This load gets transferred to the conical dome by thrust T in
the conical dome.
CONICAL DOME
• It is subjected to both meridional thrust as well as hoop
tension.
• Meridional thrust: It is due to vertical forces(weights)
transferred to it at its base.

• Hoop tension: due to water pressure and s/w, the conical

dome will be subjected to hoop tension.
BOTTOM DOME
• Bottom dome develops both meridional and hoop stresses
which are compressive in nature due t weight of water
supported by it and also due to its own weight.

BOTTOM RING BEAM B2

• The ring beam receives an inward inclined thrust T0 from the
conical dome and an outward thrust T2 from the bottom
dome.
STRUCTURAL DETAILS
Storage capacity 900 Cu.m
Water Depth 4.75 m
Free board 0.25 m
Height of staging 20.0 m
S.B.C 8 T/m²
Grade of concrete M-30
Grade of steel 415 N/mm²
Internal Diameter 14m
Dia. of ring beam B2 10m
Height of conical dome(h0) 2m
Rise of upper dome(h1) 2m
Rise of bottom dome 1.5m
Design of Intze tank as per
IS:3370
• Top Dome
• Thickness = 100 mm
• Force = 4 KN/m²
• Hoop Stress = 0.265 N/mm²
• Meridional stress = 0.286 N/mm²
• Reinforcement = 240 mm²
• Top Ring Beam
• Size = 375 x 400 (mm)
• Meridional Thrust = 24.33 KN/m²
• Hoop tension = 170.32 KN
• Tensile stress = 1.20 N/mm²
• Reinforcement = 1256 mm²
• Cylindrical Wall
• Height = 5m
• Thickness = 200 mm at top tapered to 300mm at bottom
• Hoop tension = 343 KN/m
• Reinforcement = 2286 mm²
• Middle Ring Beam
• Size = 600 x 1000 (mm)
• Hoop tension = 607 KN
• Reinforcement = 4241.4 mm²
• Tensile Stress = 0.95 N/mm²
• Conical Dome
• Thickness = 500 (mm)
• Meridional thrust = 336.81 KN/m
• Hoop tension = 586.80 KN/m
• Tensile stress = 1.06 N/mm²
• Reinforcement = 4020 mm²
• Bottom Spherical Dome
• Thickness = 250 (mm)
• Meridional thrust = 313.66 KN/m
• Meridional stress = 1.280 N/mm²
• Hoop stress = 1.156 N/mm²
• Reinforcement = 604 mm²
• Bottom Ring Beam
• Size = 600 x 1200 (mm)
• Load = 428.87 KN/m
• Hoop Compression = 117.20 KN
• Hoop stress = 0.16 N/mm²
• Reinforcement = 2181.41 mm²
WORK UNDER PROGRESS
• The loading up to the bottom ring beam has been derived.
This load would now be transferred to the staging.

• The aim would be to design a staging model in STAAD PRO and

,further , subject it to different cases of wind and seismic
forces to obtain the effect on staging design and compare the
results derived from various cases.
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