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Weight of Fill Wedge Acting on the Deadmen from Side <br />Angle of Deadman <br />Wedge <br />Aside_dm 15 deg Deadman Wedge <br />Width at grade <br />dmww 27 in <br />InstallationNote "Tanks Side by Side spaced at 36 inches" <br />if dmww Wdmww"error""OK" "OK" <br />The depth of the soil wedge will be to grade and the wedge will be considered to be all fill even though there <br />may be concrete at the top. This will be conservative. <br />Deadman Spacing If <br />Tanks are Adjacent <br />Spacingdm if Spacingtk 2Wdm0in Spacingtk 2Wdm0in 0.0 in  <br />Dead Man Cover Depth Coverdm Covertk ODtkPosdm 197.3 in  cover depth is to grade <br />Width of Deadman Side <br />Wedge at Grade <br />The width of the soil wedge at grade will be the lesser of the following: <br /> - for non-adjacent tanks: ww Wdm50 in OR the width based on the dm depth and soil angle <br /> - for adjacent tanks: ww Wdm50 in OR 1/2 space between tanks OR width based on the dm depth <br />and soil angle and the distance between the deadmen <br />Wdm_wedge min dmww Coverdm tan Aside_dm  Installation "No Adjacent Tanks"=if <br />min .5 Spacingdm dmwwCoverdm tan Aside_dm  otherwise <br /> <br />Wdm_wedge 0in effective width of the deadman soil wedge at grade <br />Note that any adjacent tank that is spaced more than twice the value of the width of the soil <br />wedge at grade plus the width of any deadmen between the tanks 2Wdm_wedge 2Wdm36 in <br />will have no influence on this buoyancy calculation. <br />Effective soil wedge angle using <br />the wedge width at gradeAngledm_wedge atan <br />Wdm_wedge <br />Coverdm <br />0.0 deg  <br />The deadman wedge weight will include three volumes - <br />- vol below the tank top using a submerged unit weight of sub_fill <br />- vol above the tank top that is submerged using a unit weight of sub_alt_fill <br />- vol above the tank top that may not be sumerged based on the water level with a unit weight of alt_fill <br />width of the soil wedge <br />at the tank topWdm_wedge_at_top_tk Coverdm Covertk tan Angledm_wedge 0.0 in  <br />width of the soil <br />wedge at theWdm_wedge_at_water_level Coverdm Waterdepth tan Angle dm_wedge 0.0 in  <br />Tank Buoyancy, Rotten Robbie No 69, <br />Manteca CA, dwg 17366-001, 10ft DWT <br />Date Printed: 9/7/2023 Page 21 of 46