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International Journal of Civil Engineering and Technology (IJCIET)
Volume 10, Issue 02, February 2019, pp. 2354-2364, Article ID: IJCIET_10_02_234
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ISSN Print: 0976-6308 and ISSN Online: 0976-6316
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SEISMIC ANALYSIS OF RC ELEVATED
WATER TANK IN DIFFERENT SEISMIC ZONES
L.Raghava Naidu
M.TECH student, JNTU college of engineering,Anantapuram,India,
Dr.H.Sudarsana Rao
Professor in CIVIL department, JNTU college of engineering, Anantapuram,India
Dr.Vaishali G Ghorpade
Professor in CIVIL department, JNTU college of engineering, Anantapuram,India
ABSTRACT
Elevated water tanks are becomes most vital life line structures in earthquake prone
areas. These structure are generally used to store the liquids in containers which are
placed at the top end of assisting systems (staging’s) and are most effected by seismic
forces during earthquakes. They are very important in water supply, fire-frightening
systems and also in many industrial use to store water. At the time of earthquake,
damage to these tanks creates so many problems like interruption in drinking water
supply, creates uncontrollable flames when damage to tank with flammable fluids in
industries. So therefore these elevated water tanks must remain in working condition
even after the earthquake. Due to this reason, a very large studies carried on seismic
behavior of tanks at different conditions. In this, we are going to analyze the tank under
seismic forces with the variations of different seismic zones and shape of containers
e.g. rectangular tank and circular tank with constant staging height. In this paper,
analysis is carried according with IS 1893-1984 (i.e. single lumped mass method) and
IS 1893-2002 (i.e. two mass model method), by changing seismic zone and soil type i.e.
hard rock and soft soil. Analysis is carried out for two different tank fill conditions i.e.
full and empty tank conditions. Seismic forces acting on the tank are evaluated by the
response spectrum method by changing response spectrum value (R), by using the
software STADD PRO. Seismic response such as nodal displacement, base shear, base
moment, shear force& bending moment are evaluated and compared.
Key words: Elevated water tank, Lumped mass model, Two mass model, Base shear
and base moment.