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Liquid containing tanks are very common civil engineering systems used chiefly for storage purposes. Very often, the tank is placed atop a primary structure and contains considerable amount of liquid mass, sufficient for designing the tank to function as an inertia-based supplemental damping device for the primary structure under lateral excitation. However, due to low inherent energy dissipation capacity and a high proportion of impulsive liquid mass, the proper utilization of deep tanks as dynamic vibration absorbers (DVAs) has not taken place. It thereby requires special attention and innovative design modifications. In this paper, the characteristics of liquid motion in a laterally excited deep tank are first analyzed to explain its inadequate inherent damping. A state-of-the-art review of existing literature on the special design of deep tanks as DVAs is then carried out. A brief comparative performance study on a deep tank, with and without baffles, and a shallow tank, as well as a cost analysis of a deep liquid-containing tank as a DVA for structures, are presented. It is seen that available deep tanks fitted with flow damping devices have the potential to serve as very effective and economical structural vibration control devices. The means to further enhance the effectiveness of deep tanks is also identified.
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Konar, T., Ghosh, A.(. Use of Deep Liquid-Containing Tanks as Dynamic Vibration Absorbers for Lateral Vibration Control of Structures: A Review. Iran J Sci Technol Trans Civ Eng 46, 753–769 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40996-021-00679-8
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