Sloshing behaviours of rectangular and cylindrical liquid tanks subjected to harmonic and seismic excitations

Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1701-1717

  Chen, Yung Hsiang ^a   Hwang, Wei Shien ^b   Ko, Chia Hao ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c OPE Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

BEM; Nonlinear sloshing; Seismic excitation

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); LIQUID SLOSHING; NUMERICAL METHODS; SEISMIC RESPONSE; TANKS (CONTAINERS); TAYLOR SERIES; WATER WAVE EFFECTS;

HARMONIC EXCITATION; NONLINEAR SLOSHING; SEISMIC EXCITATION;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMIC RESPONSE; STORAGE TANK; WATER WAVE;

EID: 34648813751     PISSN: 00988847     EISSN: 10969845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eqe.713     Document Type: Article

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