Abstract:To study the dynamic response of a liquid storage tank considering pile-soil interactions and the effect of long-period seismic waves on the liquid sloshing and tank uplift, a pile-soil-storage tank model was designed to perform a shaking table test based on dimensional analysis. In the experiment, four bedrock waves and four surface waves were used. The system change laws obtained when bedrock waves and surface waves were used as input were the same. The surface acceleration was amplified, and the magnification factor of surface acceleration decreased with increasing PGA as input. Under the action of general ground motion, increases in PGA input result in approximately linear increases in the shaking wave height of the stored liquid; by comparison, under the action of long-term ground motion, a nonlinear increase is observed, and the shaking wave height of the liquid is large. In addition, the wave height generated by the liquid is related to the tank type. The uplift height of the storage tank increases nonlinearly with increasing PGA input and is less than that under general ground motions under the excitation of long-period ground motions. The influence of long-period seismic waves should be considered in the design of storage tanks.