2020 Volume 76 Issue 2 Pages I_153-I_162
In recent years, many stainless steel (SUS) panel tanks have been installed as for water supply facilities in order to facilitate maintenance and shorten construction time. Although these tanks are designed and constructed according to the latest design standards, there have been so many cases of damage in SUS tanks due to severe earthquakes such as the Tohoku-Pacific Ocean Earthquake and the Kumamoto Earthquake. In this paper, the time history response analysis of a 3000 × 3000 × 3000mm SUS tank is carried out to show local stress behavior which can cause damages. As a result, it is necessary to study more on the relationship between SUS body stiffness in order to avoid damages under earthquake which can modify future design condition.
