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Ring Wall Tank Skid Plate Gravel Thickness

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julianw

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Does API-650 provide, and if they do what are the recommendations for the required gravel subgrade thickness for the design of a ring wall tank skid plate?
 
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I am not familiar with the term "skid plate". Are you referring to what was called a "bearing plate"? It was steel plate placed beneath the base of the tank in order to spread the heavy shell load out onto the subgrade.

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