Winthrop, MA
MWRA Deer Island Wastewater Treatment Plant, Egg-Shaped Digesters
Scope/Solutions
The Deer Island Wastewater Treatment Plant, which is owned and operated by Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, removes pollutants from wastewater that originates in homes and businesses in the greater Boston area. Buchart-Horn, the Electric Boat Division (EBDiv) of General Dynamics, and Perini retained SGH to develop the seismic design for egg-shaped digester tanks and their supporting concrete structures.
SGH helped develop the seismic design for the eight 3-MG egg-shaped digesters and two 3-MG gas storage tanks. Highlights of our analyses include the following:
- Evaluated the structures of the digesters and storage tanks
- Designed the reinforced concrete ring walls that support the digesters and gas storage steel tanks, which included an innovative concept for the anchorage of the steel tank base plate to the ring wall used to transmit the large overturning moment.
- Performed finite element analyses that included fluid-structure interaction for horizontal and vertical ground motion
- Determined stresses in the tank wall from the impulsive components
- Computed the convective components of liquid accelerating within the steel shell
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Project Summary
1996
Completion Date
Solutions
New Construction
Services
Structures | Advanced Analysis
Markets
Infrastructure & Transportation
Client(s)
Buchart-Horn | General Dynamics
Specialized Capabilities
Seismic Engineering | Computational Mechanics
Key team members
Additional Projects
Northeast
Hultman Aqueduct
Following the completion of the MetroWest Water Supply Tunnel, MWRA was able to dewater a section of the Hultman Aqueduct for the first time since its construction in the late 1930s. SGH conducted a condition inspection of the 1.8 mi long, dewatered section of the aqueduct.
Northeast
Longfellow Bridge
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) was concerned about the condition of the 1907 bridge. Working with a team of consultants, SGH investigated the stone masonry and concrete substructures and the steel-supported concrete sidewalks.