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Sustainability of energy sources and environmental protection play an increasingly important role in civil engineering design. Due to global warming, people are well aware of the importance of protecting nature, as extreme weather events are occurring more frequently. The lack of water becomes a serious problem in still larger and larger areas all over the world. For this reason, drinking and rain water reservoirs as well as wastewater treatment plants have been presently popular and frequently used structures. Fr...

Tanks have been presently used for storage of various materials and products. It can be either a loose material, or various liquid and gaseous substances. Tanks have been often used to store the drinking water or various technical liquids, for purposes of waste water treatment, etc. Rectangular tanks are rarely used compared to cylindrical ones, but still they offer several benefits, e.g. higher resistance to unilateral loading and better use of space. The rectangular tank filled by water has been analyzed in this...