Abstract
In order to investigate the uplifting behavior of large-scaled LNG, LPG and oil tanks, which has recently been said to be closely related with the earthquake damages, the authors conducted a series of static tilt tests using a very large model made of aluminum alloy with about 10m diameter and 8m height. This model is characteristic of satisfying exactly the similitude with actual large-scaled tanks, and the tilt tests made it possible to conduct such large experiments and to measure the behaviors in detail.
The subject of this paper is to introduce the static tilt tests and to discuss about the experimental results concerning a prototype LNG tank, compared with the authors' theoretical calculations.
