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Design of circular wall

Design of circular wall

Design of circular wall

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Hi this is my first post on this website,My question is can anybody help me to design a circular underground water tank.I need to design wall which is circular.Is it ok to provide circular base for wall or I should provide square base for the wall.Does anybody know about ring sresses.Due to soil presure I imagined ring reinforcement wil go under compression.is it right ?
Thanks

RE: Design of circular wall

7thsky,

There is a PCA publication "Circular Prestress without prestressing" which has all the information you need to design circular tanks. This publication contains coeff. for Hoop Tension and wall moments for different loading and support conditions.

Also you need ACI 350.3 if you are in Seismic zone.

For structural design of water retaining structures you need to use ACI 350 and not ACI 318.

Hope this helps.

RE: Design of circular wall

It almost sounds similar to a concrete ring wall design problem except with the forces coming in from the exterior instead of the interior.  

We design "belts and suspenders" with our underground structures meaning that we design the horizontal bars for hoop stress and vertical bars as a cantilever off the foundation.  From another reference here on this site, I found the document "Oil Storage Tank Foundations" by Irving E. Boberg to be an excellent source for understanding the hoop stress portion of this design.  

I believe that Hoop Stress though would be more applicable to the forces pushing out causing tension in the horizontal steel.  In your case, I believe the design is more similar to a compression ring.

When we design these circular walls, we do design circular foundation slabs below them (although it varies if we have any kind of foundation below them depending on where the project is located).  The diameter of these foundations is large enough that this isn't a problem.  I imagine that it might be if the circle was small just because of the limitations of what you can form.  

However, we show a circular foundation on the drawings but what ends up happening sometimes in the field is that it is a little more truncated with straight lines.  Ours are underground so this usually isn't a problem. If given the option and depending on the size of the tank, a square footing would probably be simpler to form.

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