Resumen de Concrete Design Guide No. 1: Guidance on the design of liquid-retaining structures

The Concrete Centre

• This series is produced by The Concrete Centre to enable designers to realise the potential of concrete.

  The Concrete Centre, part of the Mineral Products Association (MPA), is a team of qualifi ed professionals with expertise in concrete construction, engineering and architecture.

  This short note highlights some of the salient aspects of the design and construction of liquid-retaining structures in reinforced concrete (Figure 1). This guidance is based on Eurocodes BS EN 1992-1-11 and BS EN 1992-32 and the corresponding UK National Annexes. This is not an exhaustive treatment of the subject and the reader is advised to refer to The Concrete Centre book on concrete basements3 and CIRIA publication C6604 as basements and tanks have many aspects in common.