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Two fuel storage tanks will be placed at an oil refinery near Bakersfield. The tanks are...

Two fuel storage tanks will be placed at an oil refinery near Bakersfield. The tanks are 10 m in diameter, are spaced center-to-center at 15 m, and contain fuel that has a Gs=0.95. The height of the fuel in the tanks is 4 m. Determine the stress change in the soil below the tanks at 4 locations: a) beneath the centerline between the tanks, b) beneath the edge closest to the other tank, c) beneath the center of one tank, and d) beneath the far edge of the tank. These calculation need to be carried out for a depth of 10 m. Assume the base of the tanks rests on the ground surface (no embedment), that the water table is very deep, and the unit weight is 18 kN/m3 .

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