Comparison of European and American design standards for the seismic design of industrial liquid storage tanks, pressure vessels and piping and development of available test data base.

WP Leader: EBETAM S.A.

Objectives

The objectives of this workpackage (WP1) are the following:

1. •Collection and evaluation of cyclic loading (static and dynamic) test data on critical industrial components of industrial systems available in the literature.
   

2. •Collection and evaluation of damages in industrial equipment structures subjected to strong earthquake events.
   

3. •Comparison of currently used European (EN and national) standards, American (API or ASME) standards and Japanese standards, in typical industrial equipment structures, namely (a) liquid storage tanks, (b) pressure vessels and (c) industrial piping, to identify main differences in seismic design procedures.