Effect of Geometric Parameters on Elastoplastic Buckling of Ground Cylindrical Steel Tanks with Regard to the Fluid and Structure Interaction

Abstract

Todays due to expansion of population and industry, the collection and storage of liquids has been paid attention more and more. Saving oil and chemical liquids require great care to maintain it. One of the most important and commonly structures for storing liquids is steel cylindrical above ground tanks. On the other hand, due to damage of tanks in past earthquakes, they persuade scientists to better understand the seismic behavior.As a consequence, this research has been studied examines the phenomenon of buckling under Bam, Golbaf, Firuzabad, Bojnurd, Manjil, Tabas and Sarein eartquakes with regard to the fluid and structure interaction. Tanks were selected with ratio of 0.5, 1.0, 1.5 and 2.0 with fixed and variable thickness in full mode. These Cases were analyzed with non-linear time history analysis by ABAQUS Software.Finally, Compare the results with American petroleum institute regulation (API), Iranian seismic design code for oil industries and forces show, both height and diameter increase to growth the risk of Elastoplastic buckling and also by increasing the height to diameter ratio reduces the risk of Elastoplastic Buckling. The amount of this damage has declined by increasing shell thickness and in the same vein designing these structure by define standards is not safe method.

Keywords

• cylindrical steel tanks
• finite elements method
• elastoplastic buckling
• nonlinear dynamic analysis
• fluid structure interaction