Wind pressures and buckling of cylindrical steel tanks with a dome roof |
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Authors: | G Portela |
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Affiliation: | a Department of General Engineering, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez 00681-9044, Puerto Rico b Civil Infrastructure Research Center, Department of Civil Engineering and Surveying, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez 00681-9041, Puerto Rico |
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Abstract: | An experimental/computational strategy is used in this paper to evaluate the buckling behavior of steel tanks with a dome roof under exposure to wind. First, wind tunnel experiments using small scale rigid models were carried out, from which pressure distributions due to wind on the cylindrical part and on the roof were obtained. Second, a computational model of the structure (using the pressures obtained in the experiments) was used to evaluate buckling loads and modes and to study the imperfection sensitivity of the tanks. The computational tools used were bifurcation buckling analysis (eigenvalue analysis) and geometrical nonlinear analysis (step-by-step incremental analysis). Geometric imperfections and changes in the buckling results due to reductions in the thickness were also included in the study to investigate reductions in the buckling strength of the shell. For the geometries considered, the results show low imperfection sensitivity of the tanks and buckling loads associated with wind speeds 45% higher than those specified by the ASCE 7-02 standard. |
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Keywords: | Buckling Dome roof Finite element analysis Imperfections Steel tanks Wind pressures Wind tunnel |
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