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Themed Section: Science and Technology

Design and Analysis of Tank Ring Wall Foundation by using STAAD Pro V8i
D. Nagesh, Dr. C. Sasidhar
1
PG Scholar, Deperment of Civil Engineering, JNTUA,Andhra Pradesh, India
2
Professor, Depertment of Civil Engineering, JNTUA,Andhra Pradesh, India

ABSTRACT

In oil & gas and Petrochemical Industries, mostly large storage liquids are required. These storage tanks are of Steel
shell, which require either concrete or earthen foundations as per the requirement. These foundations are to be
designed for Tank liquid load, Wind or Seismic loads etc. for anchoring the tank, Anchor bolts may require.
Different process conditions like, upward pressure inside tank etc to be considered while designing tank foundations.
The Ring wall foundation for these tanks to be designed is not like ordinary building foundation design. The
foundation just receives approximately 10% of the tank shell load, but all the load of the liquid contained in the tank
is directly transferred to the soil and the soil has to lively bear this load. So the soil bearing capacity, soil condition
takes the main role and design criteria is to be designed based on Height of the tank, soil conditions, soil bearing
capacity, total liquid load contained in the tank. Also the settlement analysis has to be carried out carefully as the
outer pipes connected to it may get disturbed and this Tank Settlement should be investigated by the geotechnical
engineer as another primary issue in tank foundation performance and total Settlement, differential settlement,
interior settlement, and edge settlement should be evaluated. In this paper taking all these considerations manual
method is designed and it is modeled in STAAD.PRO Software. Performance of the designed Ring wall foundation
as obtained from the STAAD.PRO analysis is then compared with that obtained from manual calculations.
Keywords: STAAD Pro, Earthen Foundations, Steel Shell, Anchor Bolt, Ring Wall

I. INTRODUCTION
3. Evaluate the Manual Method of tank ring wall
A tank foundation is a base which is designed to support foundation.
the weight of oil tanks that contains spillage. It is
required to provide total support for the tank bottom. It II. RING FOOTING DIMENSIONS &
is design to support the tank and its loads. PROPERTIES

Large tanks, tanks with heavy or tall shells and or self-

supported roofs impose a substantial load on the
foundation under the shell. This is particularly important
with regard to radial shell distortion at the tank top in
floating-roof tanks. When there is some doubt whether a
foundation will be able to carry the shell load directly, a
concrete ringwall foundation should be used.

1.1 OBJECTIVE OF THE THESIS

The main objectives of the have been presented as
follows.
1. Analyze and Design of tank ring wall foundation
using manual analysis.
2. Model and analyze the tank ring wall foundation
using STAAD PRO V8I.

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 Type of Cone Up (Slope-
Bottom 1:120)
III. SHELL DATA
Type of Roof Rafter
DESIGN OF RING FOUNDATION FOR TANK Support
TANK INPUT DATA Tank Inside 21336 Mm
Diameter
Mean diameter of tank (D) =21.336 m Dimensions
Mean diameter of ring wall (Dr) =21.400 m Tank Height 12192 Mm
Bolt circle dia of tank (BCD) =21.400 m Height of Nominal 4359.04 Cu.M
tank shell (Hs ) =12.192 m Type of roof Capacity of
= fixed roof Height of tank roof Tank
projection( Hr) =1.200m
Weight
Empty weight of tank (We) =1283.500 KN
Weight of tank roof + rafters +shell Wr + Ws = Tank Empty 128.34 Mt
1283.500-283.900-232.200
Weights Tank With Full 4563.75 Mt
=767.400 KN
of Water
Weight of tank bottom plates (Wb)
= 283.900 KN Tank With Full 4502.88 Mt
Weight of roof (Wroof ) of Product
= 232.200 KN Foundation Loading Data
Live load on tank roof (LLr)
=0.750 KN/M2 Live load on Wind Shear Force 157.065 Kn
platform = LLP = Live load on tank roof & platforms Moment 1200.377 Kn-M
W11 = LLr *π*D2 /4 + Live load on platform
= 318.150 KN Shear Force 4113.81 Kn
Hydrotest weight of tank = Wt = max Seismic Ring Wall 19507.21 Kn-M
=45637.500 KN Moment
Operating weight of tank = Wo = max
Slab Moment 35177.28 Kn-M
=45028.800 KN
Lateral force / Base shear due to wind load = Fw Anchoring Not Applicable
=157.065 KN
Type of Foundation Ring Beam
Overturning moment due to wind load = Mw
= 1200.377 KN-m
Enter load factor earthquake load
IV. DESIGN PHILOSOPHY
= 1.000
(based zone load factor is taken) Ring beam foundation is a model in STAAD PRO
Lateral force / Base shear due to earthquake load = Feh software using plate elements are Annular ring beam
= 4113.810 KN with base slab is proposed. The width of the ring beam is
Overturning moment due to earthquake load = Meh 600mm, and breadth of the base slab is 0.45 km
= 19507.210 KN-m Width of ring footing base
Table 3.1 Mechanical data ,weight, foundation loading = 0.600 m
data Loading states to be considered are, according to actual
conditions, as follows
Mechanical Data • State of live loading
Contents Brackish Water • State of wind load
• State of earthquake
Tank Type of Roof Cone (Slope -1:6) • State of Seismic load

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Hoop tension results from staad output: reference.
For plate 816 load combination 106 Sx=6827kN/m2
Sxy=7 kN/m2
Total Sx=Sx+|Sxy|=6827+7=6843kN/m2
Sx,Sxy are membrane force in the plate as shown in the
diagram
total Sx for design=6843=6843 kN/m2
Max hoop tension on the ring beam=6843 VI. REFERENCES
*0.5*0.6=2052.9 KN
Manual calculation value=1852.66kN [1]. Klepikov (1989) and USACE (1990) are general
The value obtained by staad approximately matches with documents for various structures, either with fixed
manual calculation values or floating roof, The following points should be
noted from API 653 (1995)
[2]. Turn bull,J.E., H.A. Jackson, and D. Lowe. (1979)
Worked on performance of Reinforced ring
foundations
[3]. Design criteria were based on the Canadian Farm
Building Code (1977), and solutions were
calculated for soils ranging from 72 to 288 kN/m2
(1500 to 6000 lb/ft2) safe bearing pressures.
[4]. D'Orazio and Doncan (1989) are very valuable
because they are real data of settlement for steel
tanks which are used to store oil materials.
[5]. Moradi , Amir Mahmoudzadeh and Yahya Rahim
Safavi (Jan. - Feb. 2017), by various types of
Storage Tank Foundations.
[6]. Stanislav Dovnarovitch and Yurji Ivanov(1988)
V. CONCLUSION by A simple technique has been proposed to
prevent the failures that can be easily Applied
This ring wall foundation have a good strength, when constructing the tanks.
deformability and prevent lateral movement. It may be [7]. Klepikov (1989) reviewed a large number of
applied to the large liquid storage structures for diameter references related to allowable settlement.
< 30 m height is based structure. Most of the large [8]. USACE (1990) published an engineering manual,
storage structures having ring wall foundation. Because EM 1110-1-1904, for geotechnical procedures.
it will resist the loads properly and it is maintain uniform
settlement, control the erosion. Ring wall foundation is
Efficient and low-cost repair technique. The ring beam
along with foundation was modeled in STAADPRO
software, using 4 noded plate elements. The values
obtained in software was compared with manual
Analysis. It is matching. The design of the substructure
elements was done manually. Vendor drawings are
attached for reference. All possible loading scenarios
considered. The primary loads are provided by the
vendor. The design of elements was done using the
worst possible load combinations. Structural drawing are

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