Floating roof analysis and design using minicomputers
Floating roof analysis and design using minicomputers
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利用小型机进行浮顶分析与设计
DOI:
10.1016/0045-7949(80)90085-1
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发表时间:
1980
影响因子:
4.7
通讯作者:
H. Epstein
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作者:
H. Epstein
Floating roofs are used in oil storage tanks to reduce evaporation and handling losses, decrease corrosion, and reduce the fire hazard. A pontoon roof is used in this paper. It consists of a circular central plating attached at the edge to a compartmented; buoyant ring. The primary design loadings for this roof are due to accumulated rainwater or a punctured deck. The design loads typically cause the deck to deflect several hundred times its thickness and consequently the deck is usually designed and analyzed as a membrane.The complicated nature of the loading on the membrane together with the unusual boundary conditions require numerical integration of the coupled, non-linear differential equations which govern the behavior. A skilled analyst is needed to vary the starting parameters necessary for the integration. This paper describes the procedure that should be followed in the analysis and design of the roofs, and shows why an interactive computer is so important in the understanding of the forces in this structure and in the design necessary to transmit them.