Water Storage Tank Roof Rafter Beam Earthquake Straps

The top chord consists of 2x6s and the web and bottom chord consist of 2x4s.

Water storage tank roof rafter beam earthquake straps. It begins with design. The pressure is provided by the flow of water with all roof manway plates tightly closed. If you re framing a gable roof on a new house or building a shed or even a doghouse with a gable roof you ll need to cut a number of roof rafters. What follows is advice from four manufacturers of water storage tanks and two tank consultants whose job it is to independently inspect water tanks as they are being built repaired or recoated.

The sloshing phenomena and pressures by the sloshing on the tank roof have been presented. Tank damage mode at hanshin awaji earthquake. In this work the tank used has been treated by several authors 8 15 the tall tank has a height to a radius ratio h r of 2. Of seismic control systems are used in earthquake resistant design that serves the purpose of reducing the action of earthquake forces on the main structural.

The event of earthquake the design spectrum for sloshing in tanks the design pressure for silos. The terrace water storage tank is generally constructed using brick masonry which is placed on an elevated platform to provide a reserve supply of water for daily house activities. Awwa also has standards for coating steel water storage tanks d102 14 and factory coated bolted carbon steel tanks d103 09. The roof is fiberglass shingles with felt on inch plywood.

Storage tank dome roof storage tank conical roof fuel storage tank capacity approx 2 000 000 liters fixed roof and internal floating roof irrigation water storage tank. There are 16 inches of fiberglass insulation above the ceiling. European erasmus mundus master course sustainable constructions under natural. Ceiling is inch plaster with inch plywood backup.

The roof rafters provide integral structural support to the roof. Roof rafters designed using a roof live load greater than 50 lb ft 2 2 400 n m 2 may utilize higher allowable stresses when using material with minimum specified yield strength greater than a36 material. Pressure under pressure testing for the tank s body and roof. In the three dimensional tank most developed models use shell element for the wall the roof and the tank bottom beam elements for the roof rafters and fluid element for liquid containing cylindrical tank.

Before you cut your boards you ll need to measure the width of your building and calculate the exact length of each rafter. The binder should be nailed to the ceiling joists and rafters after the roof is loaded but before plasterboard is fixed to. Either by using a steel strap tying the wall plates together or a steel anchor strap may be. Extensive requirements were added for anchor bolts and anchor straps.

Fixed roof of a tank without a pontoon is tested for excessive pressure with the tank filled to the level which is 10 lower the planned level with keeping the load for 30 minutes.