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Water reservoir design actions

Water reservoir design actions

Water reservoir design actions

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I am in the stages of designing a water reservoir. With static backfill pressures how do I find the vertical, horizontal bending moments and shears in the concrete wall?The reservoir is not being stressed. The wall in effect will act as a retaining wall and will be full fixed into the foundation. Is there any literature which will help me find the actions in the wall when I know the pressures in the wall. Even something that would tell me the percentage of load converted to membrane shear and bending moment.

Any help would be appreciated

RE: Water reservoir design actions

If it is a rextangular wall, the best publication I know of, is "Moments & Reactions for Rectangular Plates" by W T Moody.  It is a Water Resources Technical Publication - Engineering Monograph No. 27.
The last reprint that I have, is July 1970, so it may now be out of print.
It has 5 different plate edge conditions (such as fixed on three sides & free on top), with 11 different loading cases.  These vary from uniform load for full height, 2/3 height, 1/3 height, various combinations of water loading etc.
Each plate has an 'a' dimension of half width, & a 'b' dimansion of full height.  The plates have vertical & horizontal moments & reactions for a/b configurations from 1/8 to 3/2.

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