API Steel Dome Roof Tanks
API Steel Dome Roof Tanks
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Where can I find information on designing and constructing of dome roofs for API tanks?
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RE: API Steel Dome Roof Tanks
RE: API Steel Dome Roof Tanks
Design of Steel Bins for the Storage of Bulk Solids (Prentice-Hall international series in civil engineering and engineering mechanics) (Hardcover)
Authors = Gaylord and Gaylord
This book contains a dedicated chapter for conical and dome roofs including their superting structures.
I am myself busy doing something on this type of roof design with Mathcad..and want to discuss and exchange e-mails about it..
RE: API Steel Dome Roof Tanks
RE: API Steel Dome Roof Tanks
I am also looking for general information on how to construct these types of roofs, eg, are the plates rolled in two direction or cut flat to a particular pattern, then bowed during construction.
Carthago; I would be more than happy to share information with you.
RE: API Steel Dome Roof Tanks
Major softwares like Tank and Etank are almost entirely based (for roof design) on this particular book.
The problem with Brownell book and with these software is
that they deal with simplified cases e.g.=
1- the roofs are horizontal
2- this means that supporting the beams and rafters
are also horizontal
3- this also means no horizontal reaction acting on the shell or on the inner ring.
Nevetheless this book can form a good basis nowadays to design almost roof type..
RE: API Steel Dome Roof Tanks
If the roof is dished to a radius, it's a "dome". If plates are rolled or formed in one direction only, it is an "umbrella". These two terms are often used interchangeably. Connections to the shell and at the top will vary, as will general layout of the roof itself.
If this is an actual tank, either in place or proposed, you'd need to speak to the fabricator for specific details.
RE: API Steel Dome Roof Tanks