Please recommend books or design reference standard for water/wastewat

[designsimply]

Please recommend any books or design reference standards about structural design of water/wastewater treatment plants (facilities). The simpler the fundamentals of structural design, the better.

Thanks a lot for any input.

 

[designsimply]

Can anyone give any advice? Please. I am waiting for some useful information and decide to buy one book right way. Thanks.

 

[miecz]

Only book I've ever seen is "Design of Liquid Retaiing Concrete Structures" by R.D. Anchor. I found it to be very informative, it is based on British Standards and so is of limited use in the U.S.

 

[JedClampett]

There are very few references that deal completely with this subject. In "Concrete Construction Engineering" by Nawy, there is some discussion in chapter 10 of water containing structures. ACI 350 gives code guidance on this type of design. There are tools like PCA "Design of Circular Tanks without Prestressing" and "Rectangular Concrete Tanks" that give formulae for common design cases.
But this is not something you can learn completely out of a book. You need to look at existing designs, evaluate their strengths and weaknesses, talk to experienced designers and generally observe.

 

[designsimply]

Miecz and JedClampett,

Thanks for replies. At least your inputs give me some useful information and directions. This makes sense to me. I tried hard to find some design books from Internet but nothing is really useful.

Thanks a lot,

 

[Ussuri]

The design of water-retaining structures by Batty and Westbrook.

Again it is based on british standards but contains many worked examples.

 

[oneintheeye]

yes westbrook design of water retaining structures is excellent, though as said on british standards. I suppose the analysis stuff would be valid though and the stress strain behaviour of concrete for crack width calculations. Alos has many useful tables for walls supported on 3 sides under triangular load. circular tank force calculations.

 

[BarryEng]

For circ tanks, (as per JedClampett above) use circular concrete tanks wihout prestressing by PCA USA.

For rectangular plates (walls of filters etc for WTP), the PCA also has a publication but I generally use the USBR version. Try thread404-205384 with my (following) answer.

I would like to refer you to a site that I often use for rectangular plates - a USBR pub that has many support conditions & many loading conditions. I have found the site (directed to me by 'bridgebuster' in another thread).

http://www.usbr.gov/pmts/hydraulics_lab/pubs/EM/EM27.pdf

This pub was originally produced for the skin wall of counterfort retaining walls, but has such a universal application to the design of rectangular plates, that I must direct the site to you.

I agree (with previous threads) that you MUST be careful of FEA that cannot be verified. I am an advocate of elastic solutions (method that have stood the test of time & the results that are reproducible).

My guides have always been: -
Theory of plates & shells by timoshenko
Stresses by Rourke & Young

 

[oneintheeye]

westbrook has examples and tables based on timoshenko plates and shells.