Dynamic Response of Base-Isolated Concrete Rectangular Liquid-Storage Structure Under Large Amplitude Sloshing

• Main Authors: Cheng Xuansheng, Li De, Li Peijiang, Zhang Xiaoyan, Li Guoliang
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Sciendo 2017-03-01
• Series: Archives of Civil Engineering
• Subjects: large amplitude sloshing: earthquake; base-isolated: concrete; rectangular liquid-storage structure; nonlinearity; dynamic response
• Online Access: http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/ace.2017.63.issue-1/ace-2017-0003/ace-2017-0003.xml?format=INT

Considering concrete nonlinearity, the wave height limit between small and large amplitude sloshing is defined based on the Bernoulli equation. Based on Navier-Stokes equations, the mathematical model of large amplitude sloshing is established for a Concrete Rectangle Liquid-Storage Structure (CRLSS). The results show that the seismic response of a CRLSS increases with the increase of seismic intensity. Under different seismic fortification intensities, the change in trend of wave height, wallboard displacement, and stress are the same, but the amplitudes arc not. The areas of stress concentration appear mainly at the connections between the wallboards, and the connections between the wallboard and the bottom.