Ferrocement Water Tank Design, Performance and Practical Applications Project

Abstract

The fundamental concepts of Ferrocement, Design and Analysis of structures were three different fields which were taken into account during this study. Since there are only very few works on the Ferrocement water tanks done prior to this in Pakistan, the details of which are also not known therefore this book will be the only source of information for any one who wants to do some work in the field. I have tried my best to include all the practical aspects of the work in the descriptive as well as illustrative form so that a student of an under graduate level can easily understand the very basic terms what I mean. In this first edition I have tried my best to include all the things that I have done and also all the things that I wanted to do but I could not manage and the things that I did wrong. This work is also aimed at being a descriptive manual for any amateur (even if he is not engineer) who wants to make his own Ferrocement water tank based on my design. The idea was to make a water tank for remote areas of Pakistan where local population can not afford expensive means for storage of drinking water. So economy of the project was given prime importance. But since nothing was done before, the work emerged as a research oriented work and out of many design proposals made for economical solution the best is considered in this publication. Population of remote areas may be benefited from i