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API Tank Settlement PDF

This document contains diagrams illustrating potential issues with flat or uneven spots in storage tank shells and floors, including waviness in roof plates, creasing at shell/roof joints, and stress in the shell, roof, and floor. It also contains drawings showing graphical representations of out-of-plane tank settlement and permissible edge settlement based on a given radius and depth of settlement.

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API Tank Settlement PDF

This document contains diagrams illustrating potential issues with flat or uneven spots in storage tank shells and floors, including waviness in roof plates, creasing at shell/roof joints, and stress in the shell, roof, and floor. It also contains drawings showing graphical representations of out-of-plane tank settlement and permissible edge settlement based on a given radius and depth of settlement.

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FLAT SPOTS

(OVALITY)
IN SHELL

WAVY ROOF
PLATES
CREASING OF
SHELL/ROOF JOINT

SEVERE STRESS
IN SHELL, ROOF,
AND FLOOR
INTERIOR FLOOR
PROFILE
ORIGINAL
ELEVATION

FLOOR AT SHELL
PROFILE

SEE DWG. L0037 FOR GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION

SCALE: DRAWN BY: ENGINEER: PROJECT NO.:

OUT-OF-PLANE NONE LWD

TANK SETTLEMENT MIX BROS. TANK SERVICES


DATE:

95 JAN 20
REVISED:

00 NOV 17
DWG.
NO.:
L0043
R = Radius width of settled area (in feet)
B = Settlement (in inches)

Tank Shell
Permissible depth of B is given by
this formula:

R B = 0.37R

Original
bottom
position
B

Tank bottom

Tank Shell

Original
bottom
position
B

Tank bottom

Figure B-4 Edge Settlement

TITLE SCALE: DRAWN BY: ENGINEER: PROJECT NO.:

API 653 Appendix B NONE LWD

EDGE SETTLEMENT DRAWINGS EDMONTON


DATE:

95 JAN 17
REVISED:

0
DWG.
NO.:
L0038

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