Attenuation Effects of a Single Deck Floating Roof in a Liquid Storage Tank

Abstract

Liquid-roof interaction imposes a complicated distribution of out-of-plane deformation on the single-deck type floating roof (SDRF), which is the main source of considerable seismic stresses in floating roof. In this paper, an analytical solution for evaluating the dynamic interaction between the liquid and the floating roof is developed. Main physical and geometrical parameters are involved by the proposed analytical solution (PAS) for evaluating the seismic stresses of a single deck floating roof tanks (SDFR). The results of PAS are compared with the results of existing empirical formulas for various dimensions of SDRF tanks. In order to assess the validity of PAS for various sloshing wave height, a numerical model based on finite element method is established and the PAS results are compared with the finite element method (FEM) analysis results. The PAS predictions are in very good agreement with both the available empirical formula and the numerical model results.