Inventors:
Theodore R. Crom - Hawthorne FL
Gerald C. Bevis - Archer FL
Assignee:
The Crom Corporation - Gainesville FL
International Classification:
E04D 100
E04C 310
Abstract:
A prestressed composite tank has a vertical wall that extends around a storage area. The wall is made up of a substantially vertical, preferably metallic diaphragm and a layer of shotcrete on one or both sides of the diaphragm. The diaphragm is formed from a series of side-by-side panels, each of which panels has a vertically extending edge portion on each side thereof. The adjacent edge portions of each side-by-side pair of panels are in intimate, mechanical interengagement and subsequently sealed to thereby present fluid impervious joints between the adjacent panels.