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Abstract
This study is concerned with the behavior of calcareous
sandy soil under steel tank foundation laboratory and field tests
were carried out on sandy soil in Kuwait area and the data
obtained were used in the calculation of the expected settlement
and in the design of the tank..
Different methods were used to evaluate the settlement at
the center orl and at the edge of the tank.The out- put data were
compared with these obtained from the water load tests (Hydrotests).
These tests were carried out on the same area tanks with
diameter of 67111and height of 15m. The vertical movements of
the tank were monitored using 25 points located at the perimeter.
Finite element program , Plasixs, was used to predict the
settlement underneath the tank as well as outside the loaded area.
This method shows that it is suitable to evaluate the settlement
under the tank assuming E= (76N ) tlm2 , since it yields the same
settlement as recorded during the loading test.