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Does anyone know a fitness for service plan for piled tank foundations under a storage tank?
API 653 appendix B addresses settlement of tanks on soil, or on a ring wall. It does not cover a tank on a concrete pad supported by friction timber piles. We can measure the edge...
Can any point me in the right direction?
I need to do a finite element analysis on an existing chemical storage tank to validate its fitness for service. Is there a software package available? What procedure should I use? The tank is not for petroleum product. The closest that I can come up...
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I am working on improving the heat transfer of hot oil heating coils inside an asphalt tank, at 100-ft in dia. The tank has 4" insulation, with internal solid fin heating coils, and no agitators. It not heated until the content needs to be offloaded to trucks. It takes 5 days...
