DESIGN OF CIRCULAR WATER TANK HA BASE RESTING ON GROUN

PREPARED BY VAIBHAV GUPTA VINAY KUMAR YADAV VISHAL REWAPATI VIVEK KUMAR SINGH

R TANK HAVING FLEXIBLE ON GROUND

GUIDED BY Mr. SUNIL PATIL READER CED,SDBCE INDORE

Brief introduction
Circular tanks are generally more economical than those having other shapes.However,for small capacity, formwork for circular tanks proves to be costly and rectangular tanks are preferred. Forces acting The tanks are subjected to uniformly varying lateral load due to hydrostatic pressure,increasing from zero at the free water surface to the maximum at the bottom.in a circular tank,the lateral pressure causes hoop tension in the walls. The magnitude of this hoop tension depends on the nature of the joint between wall and bottom slab. Requirements Apart from strength requirement, another essential requirement in the design of water tank is imperviousness.To make water tanks impervious , wider cracks should be avoided in the concrete which my be achieved by: 1)Use richer concrete mix, say M25 or M30. 2)Give a minimum clear cover of 25mm. 3)Provide smaller diameter bars at closer intervals 4)Keep the tensile stresses in concrete low. 5)Follow good construction practices like thorough mixing,good compction and good curing.

DESIGN STEPS
STEP 1 CALCULATION OF DESIGN CONSTANTS
STEP 2 PRELIMINARY DIMENSIONING STEP 3 DESIGN OF WALL AND BASE

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PROBLEM:
Design a circular water tank with flexible base having the following specifications: Capacity=500m, M25 ,Fe415 to be used; Overall height=5m , freeboard=300mm; Bearing capacity of soil=150 kN/m.

SOLUTION:
Step 1: Determination of various design constants Permissible bending stress in compression in concrete(cbc)=8.5MPa Permisssible tensile stress in steel(st)=150MPa Splitting tensile strength of concrete(ct)=1.3MPa Modular ratio,m=280/3(cbc) Bending tensile stress in concrete(cbt)=1.80MPa j=1-k/3 Q=0.5*cbc*j*k cbc st 8.5 150 Step 2:Preliminary dimensions of the tank Capacity(in m) Overall height(in m) 500 5

Freeboard( in m) 0.3

Step 3: Design of tank wall Weight density of water ,gw=10 N/m Maximum hoop tension, T=0.5*gw*H*D Area of hoop steel required As=T/st Number of bars provided,n=As/area of single bar,(use 16 mm bars) Spacing,s=1000/no. of bars As, in mm T, in kN/m 273.4460226 1822.973484 Ae =equivalent area of uncracked composite section Ac=concrete area in the section As=area of steel uniformly distributed in the section T=axial tension Ae = Ac +(m-1)As Ae =T/ct Ae ,in mm Ac , in mm 210343.0943 192149.104 Distributio n steel=.35%. Use 10 mm bars for distribution steel in vertical direction As (mm/mm) no. of bars on each face 350 4.454545455 Step 4:Design of the tank base slab

The thickness of base slab depends on the head of water Head of water Thickness of base slab(t) 3m 125mm 6m 150mm 10m 175mm Unit weight of concrete=25N/mm t wt. of the side wall of the tank,in kN 150mm 892.8733148 Maximum radial and circumferential bending moments at the centre of the circular base slab with simply supported edge are M = 3pr/16, where r stands for the radius of tank Effective depth, d=(M/bQ) Use 25mm bars with 25mm cover to reinforcement M d, in mm 51.55138289 190.4204044 Adopt a convinient overall thickness . Here let it be 300mm. cover Overall thickness bar dia. 25 300 25 Using 20mm dia. Bars for distribution steel dia. Of bar area of each bar 20 314.2857143 Step 5: Check for bearing pressure on soil

wt. of side walls wt. of base slab 892.8733148 824.4409681 The max. pressure is less than the bearing capacity of soil. Hence , the design is safe

cifications:

ct 1.3

cbt 1.8

m 10.98039216

Depth of water in tank 4.7

Internal diameter of the tank 11.63600096

No. of bars on each face 4.533363815

Spacing,in mm 220.5867521

thickness of wall, in mm 192.149104

spacing 224.4897959

upward soil pressure on base slab,p kN/m 8.122534081 f the circular base slab with simply supported edge are,

effective depth 262.5 no. of bars on each face 1.670454545

required steel 1501.172157 spacing 598.6394558

distribution steel,mm/m 525

wt. of water when the tank is full 5000

total load on soil 6717.314283

max. pressure 16.85039168

design is safe

k j Q 0.383562 0.872146 1.421718

DESIGN SUMMARY
1.Capacity of the tank 2.Grade of concrete used 3.Type of steel 4.Depth of water in the tank 5.Thickness of the tank wall 6.Internal diameter of the tank 7.Reinforcement details of wall a)Main steel b)Distribution steel 8.The base slab a)Overall thickness b)Reinforcement 500m M25 Fe415 4.7m 200mm 11.64m 16mm dia bar rings@220mm c/c on both faces 10mm dia vertical bars @ 220mm c/c on each face

300mm 20mm dia. Bars @180mm c/c in both the directions at the

MMARY

20mm c/c on both faces @ 220mm c/c on each face

m c/c in both the directions at the top and at the bottom