[Ninth Symposium on Eatiquake Engheeing ( 9SEE - 90), Roorkee, Decerber 14-16 1990, Vol Seismic Design of Frame Staging for Elevated Water Tanks Jain, Sudhir K. Sameer, U.S.” Tassistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur-208016 ‘Lecturer, Department of Applied Mechanics, Karnataka Regional Engineering College, Surathkal Z BYNOPSIS 1.5. code provigiona for ageiamic aeaign of elevated water tanka have been reviewed. It la seen that, due to absence of a suitable value of performance fuctor for tanks, the code provides for rather low seismic design force for these atructurea. Simple expreaelone are given which allow calculation of ataging stiffness, and hence the time period, while incorporating beam flexibility. 4. InTRoDUCTION In India the selamlc deaign criteria is provided by 15:1893-1984 (40) which gives mininum loading atandarde and 18:4326-1976 (11) which containg deaign and detailing requirementa for conatruction of bulldinga. 18:11682-1985 (12) gives the criteria for design of RCC staging of auch eteuctures. In thie paper provisions pertaining ta aaslamic deaien af elevated vater tovers are reviewed and several suggestions given for making these more rational. The design seismic force for the water tank depends on ite flexibility and hence on the time period. Many engineere In the country tend to evaluate the time period by taking the column atiffneas aa a2Et/L3 which ia baged on the asaumption of bracing beama being infinitely cigid. In practice these beams are quite flexible and therefore the above assumption very such overestimates the etaging stiffness. An approximate procedure is presented for calculation of staging stiffness, and hence time period, giving due conalderation to the beam flexibility 4-1132, REVIEW OF INDIAN CODAL PROVISIONS 2.1 Lateral Design Force 18:1893 requires that the design lateral force shall be taken as F = a,U; where a, BIE,S,/a; @ = coefficient depending upon the s011-foundation syste B= aelemic zone factor; and S,/q = average acceleration coefficient obtained from acceleration performance factor, K, which the code uses for computing base shear for buildings, 1a absent. Thia implies that ; I= importance facto: apectra given in the code. Heri K 1a 1.0 for the elevated vater tovere which ia aleo the valus used for bulldings vith ductile ao the elevated tank type structures have lover energy absorbing capacity nt realating frames. Thia ia unreasonable a and poor ductility as compared to those in ductile’ moment resisting frame bulldinga. The all over the world prescribe a performance factor which Ia 2.5 to 4.0 times higher for elevated water tanks than that for the ductile buildings. Thus while the lateral design force prescribed for buildings in Indian codes is of about the same order that in the other codes for zonea of comparable selemicity; the deeign lateral force provided by Indian code for elevated tanke ia far below that by seismic codes in other countries. Hence it ie nec: lamic cod: ary to Introduce a auitable value of performance factor, say 3.0, for elevated tanke in 18:1893. ree of Freedom Idealieation 2.2 Single D. 18:1892 auggeate a eingle degre: tanks vhich is reasonable only for cloged tanke completely full of water. For tanka with a fre of freedom idealisation of elevated water aucface tyo-mase idealigation (7) le preferred. This view hae been supported by several investigatore (1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 15, 17) based on experimental and computational observations. Calewlationa for a fey tanks Indicate that the alngle degree of freedom representation overestimates the lateral design force; the difference in value depends on the geometrical properties of the tank and relative atiffness of the staging. Hence, there le a good c of freedom idealiaation in IS:1893 alec. for incorporating two degre: 2.3 Staging Stiffness and Time Period In both eingle- and two-degree of freedom idealisations atiffnes: the staging needs to be obtained for calculating the time period. It has been emphasised that a design criteria must also include the procedure for time period calculation (8). Thie is because there can be large of aig ivariation in time period calculated by different designers based on different aseumptiona and/or different procedures. The Handbook SP: 22-1982 (18) takes the column etiffneae as 12RI/L* which ssaumes horizontal bracings to be infinitely rigid. However the bracing beams are the etiffness clearly not rigid and thie assumption overeatim substantially. It ia auggeated that IS:1893 muet specify that in time period calculation bracing girders are not to be treated as rigid. 2.4 Hydrodynamic Pressure on Tank Valle 18:1893-1984 giv: formulae for determining thie presaure letelbution due to impulsive preasure (and not that due fo convective pressure) which are based on Ref (7) Hovever, the code aust give complete details of the equivalent mechanical analog model proposed by Housner in the came publication. Further, clause 5.2.7.1 of the code atatea that the convective presauree can be ignored in comparigon with can be a the impulsive pressures. However, the convective preseur dominant factor for certain proportions of the tank and the atructure. Moreover, I8:11682-1985 clearly states that “whereever required the affect of aurge due to vave formation of the water may be conaidered.” Hence 1$:1893 must provide complete detaila of Houener’s model and omit the clause 5.2.7.1. Tt Ja known that the a substantially greater than tho: le e€fecta on flexible tanka are Induced in aimilarly excited rigid tanks (S, 20). Simple procedures for evaluating hydrodynamic force in flexible tanks have been developed (5). It le di about larger forcea Induced in flexible tanka and to provide procedure ireable to caution the designer for their analysia in the IS code or in SP:22. 2.5 Ductility Requirements Ae ite title itaelf auggeata, 1S:4326-1976 gives deaign requirementa for bulldinge only. This makes many deeign engineere think that ductile detailing 1a not required for elevated tanka even in zonee IV and V. Hence the acope of IS: 4326-1976 auet be enlarged to alae include structures other than buildings. A figure in 1$:11682-1985 states that “where deaign selamic coefficient ie 0.05 or more reference to clausea 7.2 to 7.4 of 18:4326-1976 ahall be made to cater for ductility requirement” This ia in right spirit. Hovever, the term “design aelaaic soefflelent™ in ita present form 1a very confusing. IS:1893 defines the 415horizontal selemic coefficient, a , in tvo ways which mean tvo different things. The future editions of thease codes must be very clear and specific on ductile detailing requirements for tanke 2.6 Design for Torsion It has been recognised that it is impossible to prevent torsional response in elevated water tovere (16, 19). The elevated towers conatructed are eeldom truly symmetric due to presence of atairca: Further, during Intenge shaking, with failure of one or two bracinge, the it mandatory to atructure will go into the torelon mode. SEAOC-1980 mak. design elevated water towers for shear etresa developed due to horizontal toraion resulting from an accidental eccentricity equal to 5% of the largest lateral dimension. It is very much desirable for 1S:1893 to alec require design for accidental torsion 3. STAGING STIFFNESS Well known protal thed (4) has been auitably developed to account for the bracing flexibility and the three dimeneional behaviour of the ateucture (13). The point of inflection is assumed to occur at the midepan of beama and columns. The compatibility requires thet lateral deflection la aame in all the coluana of a panel. Hence, the columna share lateral force in proportion to their lateral atiffnesa. Conaiderina a column between two bracing levels (Fla. 1), the deflection In column, A,» due to shear, V, can be calculated. This gives the lateral stiffness of one column ae (13) ae v1 .t oo a a Sree Ee Ee FY winn 78, EE | i . . ee ze Tec tote a oe BD lhe 7 ye fee ye te ets a ct oe : 7 where Ey, E, = modulus of elasticity of beam and column, respectively; I, I, = moment of Inertia of beam and coluan, reapectively; A = helant 4116of panel under considerations h,, hy = height of the panel just above and the panel Juat below the panel under conaideration, reapectively; WM, = ting the column under conaideration at the bracing number of beans level; L = apan of bracing girder; and a = angle the bracing girder makes vith the direction of lateral force. Moat tank etagings have identical bracing girdera and have equal panel heights. Moreover, the top end of column in topmost panel and bottom end of column in bottommost panel is fixed against rotation. Uaing these congiderations, column atifénesa can be obtained as (13) 128 1 Ek, cle ba . Intermediate pancleS (4) hom gs | See + ak, |S i ® [ te ne 1281, Bkpe ° A (top and bottom panels) (5) h ba e vnere Ek, ,* Ek,,7 Eky,ys k, = E,1,/hs and the summation is from 1 to N, To evaluate the stiffness of a panel, etiffneas of Individual columns may be calculated from Eq. (4) or Eq. (5) and thia may be summed for all the columna of that panel. | A direct expression for the determination of panel atiffneas, without calculating individual column stiffness, has been obtained by further approximatione (13). For tank stagings with uniform panel height, identical columna, identical bracing giedera, and asauming that all the colunns are located on the periphery of one circle panel atiffness Lo obtained RY ole 1281 ae Kees ge [Pa] intermediate pane = » s,s Tt bh BI 12E 1 LN, bb K * Sf € (te id dott 1a) a panet = Ss Le Ey] to and bottom panel a aa _BKAMPLE Conaider the water tank in Example (6) of Handbook (SP:22) ignoring ite diagonal bracings. The tank has 4 panele of height 4 m each (total aayheight 16 m) with 8 columns Incated on a circle of radius 4.5 m. Column gine ia 520 um diameter. Beam aize ia asauued to be 200 X 500 mm. Both in tank 5 columna and beams are aaaumed to be of M20 concrete. The m full condition 12 9 ¥ 10° kg and in tank empty condition it ie 3 X 10 ka. oa! Now, E, = B, = 5700 720 = 25,500 MPa; N, = 8; 1, = 2.08 X 10° mm T, = 3.59% 10° aa"; h = 4,000 mm; and L = 3,534 mm. The moment of Inertia has been calculated asauming gross uncracked section ignoring ateel. Substituting th: Into Eqs. (6) and (7), the panel atiffness ia obtained as 33,900 N/mm or the tvo Intermediate panela and 54,400 N/am for the tvo end panela. Thia givea the ataging atiffnesa aa 10,400 N/mm. On the other hand, If one were to treat the bracing girdere as rigid, panel atiffnese is obtained as 137,000 N/mm and the staging atiffnesa aa 34,200 N/mm. Thia ataging etiffneea ie 3.3 timea what it @hould be. The time period, for tank {411 condition, la 1.85 aee evalu: considering beama flexible, and 1.02 sec otherwise. It is thua clear that the beam flexibility could not be ignored. Let thie tank be located in selamic zone V (F, = 0.40). Let @ = 1.0 and I = 1.5. For 5 % damping, S,/ @ = 0.11 for T = 1.02 sec and S, /e 0.06 for T = 1.85 sec. If staging ia deeigned treating the beans ae rigid and with no performance factor, a = (7 1 F, S, /g =0.066 and the deaign lateral load V = a, = 594 KN. However, introducing performance factor kK 7 3.0 and accounting for the beam flexibility, a, =K@ I F, S, /e 0.108 and the deaign selamic force V = 972 kN. Thue the incre in design force for thia tank is only about 64% Thia increase will be reduced somewhat 1f tvo-degree of freedom ideallaation 1a adopted. In the above example, beam length (L) and the column height (h) have been taken on the basia of centre to centre distances. Thia Ignores the additional stiftn Joint respectively. provided by rigid member zones at beam-coluan - To incorporate thia, one may take clear apan and clear height, 5. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS The Indian code proviaions for elemic design of elevated tanke have been revieved. The code must include an appropriate value of Performance factor, say 3.0, for calculation of seismic design force for water tanka. An earthquake design criteria ia incomplete unless cl 411gspecifications are included on how to calculate time period. The code is defficlent on thia. The Handbook (SP:22) solves an example problem treating the bracing beams ae infinitely rigid which ia unrealistic. The code should alao give more detaila of the Houaner'a mechanical analog model for hydrodynamic forces. Proviaion for eloshing of liquid ehould be Included. The requirements regarding ductile detailing of tanka are vague in the present form of codea and need to be clearly apecif{ied. 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