This paper reports research on the thermal buckling and post-buckling of vertical steel tanks under heat induced by a nearby burning tank. A two-layer solid flame model is adopted and a heat transfer analysis is carried ...

This paper addresses the thermal buckling behavior of tanks having a fixed roof, as employed to store fuel in the oil industry. The study is performed based on finite element analyses of the shell, including linear analysis, ...

Research on the structural behavior and buckling of vertical, aboveground tanks employed to store oil and fuels have significantly increased during the past two decades. Interest in this shell form is related not just to ...

This paper reports the computational results of an investigation of oil storage tanks with the shape of an open cylindrical shell under thermal loads induced by fire. Interest in this problem has arisen as a consequence ...

Oil storage tanks are short cylindrical shells fabricated with an external fixed roof or floating roof on the inside. Some features of the structure tend to be simplified in practice and research in order to perform stability ...