Abstract: Elevated water tanks are commonly built with superstructure vessels that have a truncated conical shape. As a result of the inclination of the vessel’s walls, the axisymmetric hydrodynamic pressure that is associated with ...

Abstract: The work presented in this paper was motivated by the collapse of an elevated conical shaped water tower structure in Fredericton, Canada, in December of 1990. It is analytically based and involves nonlinear stability ...

Abstract: The tuned liquid damper (TLD) is increasingly being used as an economical and effective dynamic vibration absorber to mitigate the dynamic response of structures. The ability to design a TLD to operate in two directions ...

Abstract: This paper investigates the performance of unidirectional and bidirectional tuned liquid dampers (TLDs) under random excitation. The performance of the tuned liquid dampers is measured in terms of efficiency and robustness. ...

Abstract: Conical steel vessels, having an upper cylindrical section and supported by a reinforced concrete shaft, are becoming widely used for water containment in elevated tanks. However, the current codes of practice for water ...